The Swisscom-App iO will be discontinued on 2017-08-31. So from then on the service will no longer be available. A bit more than four years after launching the app, it is now terminated. The goal was to replace a significant part of the conventional telephony by iO and to become a relevant player in the field with competitors like WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook-Messenger, Google-Hangouts, Threema, Skype etc.
Advantages of iO were:
- The possibility to do „breakout-calls“, which means calling regular phone numbers from iO
- Servers in Switzerland, operations team in Switzerland
- Communication end-to-end encrypted
- Good support for multiple devices with one phone number
- It was cool, looked better and…
- ad free
- open to use for free for everyone worldwide
Links:
- Swisscom about the end of iO
- FAQ zum Ende von iO
- iO (dieser Blog)
- iO hat zusätzliche Services
- io.swisscom.ch
- 20min
- NZZ (1)
- NZZ (2)
- Blog about launch 2013
- bluewin
- watson.ch
- Luzerner Zeitung
- google+
