AN application platform that is expected to offer free calls, video calls, free messaging, SMS, photo, video, audio, photo sharing, file transfer, conference calling, voicemail by email and others is to debut the Nigerian market any time from now.

The application, called Zega does what Blackberry, Skype, Whatsapp and others can do, by integrating with users contacts on the go.

According to the promoter of the new invention, Zegaphone Africa, the Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Sam Fidelis, the app is a triple A or Rolls Royce platform for smartphones.

Fidelis, who disclosed that the app has been launched in the UK, said that the products would enter Nigeria any moment from now and it was expected to take the social network and business industry by storm.  He also said that a local partner would be announced soon.

While making reference to a recent research conducted by Fierce Enterprise Communication research, which revealed that while residential services continue to make up the bulk of VoIP service revenue, he said that the new research predicted major growth in the business segment, driving combined business and residential/SOHO VoIP services revenues to grow to $76.1 billion by 2015.

Besides, Infonetics Research, in its latest VoIP and UC Services and subscribers report, forecast revenues from SIP trunking services would reach a 52 per cent compound annual growth rate between 2011 and 2015; it projected the number of seats for hosted business VoIP and unified communications services is on track to more than double during the same time period. The number of residential and small office/home office (SOHO) subscribers to hosted VoIP services is expected to grow from 179 million in 2011 to 262 million worldwide by 2015.

According to him, the app was targeted at social networks, SMEs, churches, political parties, government, NGO’s and large corporations, stressing that Zegaphone Africa was already in talks with talks with various players in the Nigeria mobile industry on how the apps could get better outing in the country.