Press Releases
Fonolo Launches iPhone App for Visual Dialing On-the-GoFeb 9, 2010 Canadian-based Fonolo named to Time.com's "50 Best Websites 2009"
Aug 24, 2009 Phone Menus To Get Less Frustrating: Fonolo Adds Powerful Features for Consumers and Introduces New Offering that Lets Companies Add "Deep Dialing" to Their Own Sites
July 14, 2009 Fonolo Honored Among This Year's Most Promising Private Technology Ventures in North America
May 1, 2009 Fonolo Gives Consumers Relief from Phone-Menu Frustration for More Than 300 North American Companies
December 10, 2008 FierceVoIP Names Fonolo as One of the "Fierce 15" VoIP Companies of 2008
November 5, 2008 Fonolo Wins Judges' Prize at GigaOm's Mobilize Conference
September 19, 2008 Fonolo Opens Ground Breaking "Deep Dialing" Service to Developer Community
August 7, 2008 Fonolo Announces Innovative Services to Ease Caller Frustration When Dealing with Large Companies
March 13, 2008
Press Coverage
- Finally tired of annoying phone menus — Dial 1 for this, 2 for that? Well, as you might expect...there's an app for that! - ABC News
- ...a way to bypass all that pushbutton nonsense...amazing stuff! - BNN TV
- "Press one for English." Here's a better idea: use Fonolo. - Time.com
- Fonolo... seems to have the right combination of founders, open technology, and "Why didn't I think of that?" features...Intelligent Call History service - just the thing when dealing with crappy customer service... Fonolo has broken out of the drab set of me-too VoIP apps over the past year. - Fierce VoIP
- Pretty much everyone hates those automated phone menus....Fonolo helps you bypass them quickly... - ABC News
- Music to your ears. - ZDNet
- Callers trapped in the wilderness of corporate phone menus can find their way with the help of a Canadian start-up company. - Vancouver Sun
- an industrial-powered buzzsaw for hacking down phone trees.... Boom, you're transferred right in without waiting or wanting to kill yourself. - Consumerist
- Fonolo solves a problem that we all have, is something that is almost universally hated and which we all thought, up until now, was an evil that simply must be endured. The endless misery dished out at the hands of IVR systems all over the planet.... But hey, there's some good news. Especially if you loathe IVR systems as much as I do then I think Fonolo is going to be your new best friend. - GTDtimes
- Getting stuck listening to automated phone menus can be downright dreadful.... Fonolo is trying to make this experience a lot easier by listing the entire phone tree on one page and giving you little call buttons to skip right to that part of the menu. The best part is that it actually calls you when it's time to talk to someone and you don't even have to do any dialing! - Webware
- IVR... is a byword for user-hostility. So what if there was a Google for phone menus? Turns out there is. We ran into fonolo at this year’s eComm. It’s a genuinely brilliant idea.... will probably have a profound effect on how call centres and voice-enabled business processes are organized... IVR search, like Web search, will alter the balance of power between you and your customers. Don’t be on the wrong side of it. - Telco 2.0
- What [fonolo] debuted at eComm was what EVERYONE has been wishing for over the past decade, I kid you not. Furthermore it's ingenious, ahead-of-the-curve innovative and can only get better. It's only twice in a decade that you're likely to see a product with as much potential as this one. Kudos. Now, where can I buy shares? - Lee Dryburgh, Founder and Chariman of the Emerging Communication Conference
- One of the unexpectedly cooler demos at eComm08 … helps you, as a consumer, kick the butt of any dial-in customer service system… Turns out there’s a lot of room left for innovation left in the telecom industry even for dusty old applications like ‘voice’ as developers create new value by mashing-up voice with web interfaces and external data sets. - Wirelessnorth.ca
- I personally find the phone interface for dealing with company’s customer support, billing, or sales operations as one of the greatest ills of modern civilization. Fonolo … offers an end run around this headache: a good example of a highly focused solution to a serious pain point, perhaps? - Stowe Boyd
- It’s like a search engine spider that catalogs the world's IVR trees, rather than web sites. What a clever idea! - Alec Saunders, Saunderslog.com
- Another great tool that came out of the eComm conference last week was fonolo. If you’ve ever called a company that has one of these interactive voice response systems with a phone tree from hell, you will appreciate the value fonolo brings to the table. - VoIP-Weblog
- Fonolo ...is ramping up to become a successful startup. In a word, their application is deep dialing, and to learn more watch the video, or spend a few minutes at their website. I've liked what they're doing from the start, and they really do solve real world problems that you'll relate to as soon as you check them out. - Jon Arnold, Jon Arnold's blog
- Fonolo [is] the sort of third party innovation carriers are looking for, and need, to create new value. [It] is an excellent example of how application developers and carriers can work together to create and popularize new applications that enhance and change the communications experience. - Gary Kim