Friday, April 29, 2011

T-MOBILE USA TEMPORARILY SUSPENDS CALLING SERVICE ON FACEBOOK


T-Mobile USA has temporarily suspended a new service that provides Facebook’s users with one-touch calling to their Facebook contacts from a personal computer and through the social network’s chat window.
On its Facebook page for Bobsled – a new brand aimed at connecting traditional telecommunications and Internet-based technologies – the nation’s fourth-largest mobile operator disclosed it is working with its “partners at Facebook to address their design questions related to differentiating the Bobsled experience from Facebook’s own created properties."
T-Mobile USA apologized for the disruption and said it is “looking forward to expanding the service with other features soon."
Last week the mobile operator introduced a Bobsled application for Facebook’s hundreds of millions of users; T-Mobile USA said the app could be downloaded for free.
Bellevue, Wash.-based T-Mobile USA noted it planned to evolve the Bobsled brand by offering such capabilities as video chat and the ability to place VoIP calls to mobile and landline numbers.
The mobile operator also plans to offer apps on smartphones and tablets across various mobile platforms regardless of the specific carrier that supports the devices.

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