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Since the Iranian presidential election results have been published on June 12 and the breaking of protests around the country, Iranian authorities started blocking off various communication means including: landlines, mobile phones, SMS, internet sites (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube), satellite broadcasts & others. Iranian locals seem to have overcome those restrictions and keep voicing their opinion and their personal experiences through various means of social media.

Since Friday, fring has been experiencing a great increase in traffic. As traditional media, internet and telecommunications access to individuals in Iran is significantly restricted right now, fring is giving Iranian individuals access to their favorite web-based social networks like Twitter, Facebook and more, and the internet phone call capabilities via fring, Skype and others, which they are using in the tens of thousands to tell their personal stories/ share photos, and persevere with great resilience and resourcefulness to exercise their freedom of speech.

Last night, on Sky News, Avi Shechter, fring’s co-founder & CEO said: “Our technology enables Iranians as well as millions of other users to bypass traditional telecommunications channels…So we find people are using it quite a lot, especially now in places where it’s quite limited.”

fring was established with the aim to provide an open environment that promotes and celebrates freedom of communication and lets people benefit from the almost unlimited potential that the internet, combined with mobile experience, can offer. Resourceful Iranian youth have just tapped into this mobile – internet potential, via fring, to give them the ability to share their thoughts and images with their friends online and around the world.

Start using fring today to share your story around the world with mobile tweets, pictures, personal profile and more.

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