Viber to enable free calling between US and countries impacted by Trump’s travel ban
Jan30
Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani has announced that messaging service Viber (which Rakuten acquired in 2014 for $900 million) will offer free calls between the United States and the countries impacted by Trump’s travel ban through Viber Out. When the service is implemented, Viber users will be place free calls to landlines and mobiles in the seven countries impacted by Trump’s executive order – Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya and Yemen. Similarly, users in those countries will be able to call numbers in the United States without having to pay. Viber COO Michael Shmilov said “Viber has always been committed to enabling…
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