Audio conferencing platform Sabsebolo has gone offline. A note on its website, and voice message on its dial-in number says that the company has had to temporarily suspend its services due to regulatory issues. Note that Sabsebolo is founded by Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia, and was backed by Tata Group's Ratan Tata in November last year. It's been around for a very long time, though: rolled up a bunch of VoIP services as long ago as 2009, when it first bought VoIP app Jaxtr, and then another one called MobiVox. The note on its website: We've been unable to contact Sabsebolo for comments: there's no contact information on its website, nor a customer care number when you dial the helpline. We've mailed info@sabsebolo.com requesting information, and will update when we hear from them. In case someone at Sabsebolo is reading this, please contact me at nikhil@medianama.com What regulatory issues? Well, MediaNama has been using Sabsebolo for conference calls every now and then. The way it works, rather, used to work, was pretty simple: they had local numbers for major cities across India, and everyone would call up their local number, use a conference ID and a PIN to log in, listen to Sabsebolo ads for Jaxtr, and join the conference call. All the calls would effectively be joined together, rather, bridged together. Sabsebolo used up try making money from this by offering conference call recording facility for a fee. We never used that. For us, it just saved one person…
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