PRESS RELEASE THE WALL STREET JOURNAL CROWNS
ZEROMOBILE AND CHATSIM
The Italian company founded by Manuel Zanella receives the
accolade of the New York-based financial newspaper for having
created the revolutionary SIM card that works all over the world.
The news was reported by BrandLab, the foreign press
observatory run by the mass media expert Klaus Davi
Milan, April 9, 2015 – Italian excellence strikes again. This time in the technology industry. According
to BrandLab, the foreign press observatory, founded by the mass media expert Klaus Davi to
keep track of the reputation of Italian brands around the world, the Milan-based
company Zeromobile has received the accolade of the Wall Street Journal, the prestigious financial
newspaper, which in an article by Archibald Preuschat has praised the company founded by Manuel
Zanella for creating Whatsim, now ChatSim, the revolutionary SIM card that works all over the world
(www.chatsim.com).
The BrandLab Observatory monitors over 100 international newspapers and magazines every day to
keep track of the reputation of Italian brands around the world, studying their strengths and weak
points. The Wall Street Journal article speaks of ChatSim with its original name, WhatSim, as an
innovative SIM that lets users gain access to the world's most famous messaging service with over
700 million users. In just a short time, thanks to its great success and to the requests of many users,
WhatSim went on to become ChatSim, the world's first SIM card that lets you chat free of
charge and without any limits with all instant messaging apps covering over 3 billion active
users a day. Even without Wi-Fi.
So innovation is the secret weapon of Italian companies in revamping the "Made in Italy" brand in
Italy and especially in the critical eyes of foreign observers.
It is now the turn of Zeromobile to steal scene and stand in the limelight for having created ChatSim,
the only multi-platform SIM card that lets you chat anywhere, 24/7, with all messaging systems in
the world: WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, Messenger, WeChat, QQ, Skype,
Viber, LINE, Hangouts, iMessage and all other apps available for smartphone and tablet.
As Manuel Zanella (38 years), founder and CEO of Zeromobile, Italy's number one global mobile
operator for roaming low cost roaming (www.zeromobile.it) states with great satisfaction, "It is an
honor to receive the accolade of such a prestigious newspaper as the Wall Street Journal: being
considered the ambassador of Italian excellence in technological innovation is the dream of every
young entrepreneur. Zanella concludes, "Let's hope that Italy will show the same attention to startups and Italian companies committed to innovation."
The New York-based newspaper stresses, "An Italian company is selling a new SIM card that it says
will let users access the popular mobile-messaging service WhatsApp all over the world. The €10-ayear product, called WhatSim, will work on 400 mobile networks in 150 countries. WhatSim is a
service of the Italian virtual network operator Zeromobile, founded by the Italian entrepreneur Manuel
Zanella. He also previously launched the i’m watch, an early smartwatch. WhatSim will become the
largest phone network available. While users can send unlimited text messages for the annual fee,
additional fees apply for sending pictures or videos. That poses a threat to legacy mobile operators,
whose revenue from classic text messages has slumped in recent years due to the increasing
popularity of smartphone messaging apps. Using WhatsApp requires a mobile-data package or
access to a Wi-Fi network."
(http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/21/new-sim-card-offers-global-access-to-whatsapp/)
In the meantime, WhatSim has become ChatSim and the success of this Italian company continues
to grow.
According to mass media expert Klaus Davi, "The great news about this Zeromobile creation has
spread all over the world making the headlines in prestigious international newspapers testifying to
the fact that innovation and technology are other crucial industries that young Italian talents are
focussing on to beat the economic crisis."
All information on ChatSim can be found at www.chatsim.com.
ChatSim Press Office:
Silvia Bullo
T. + 39 049 8021873
M. + 39 347 2780951
E-mail: [email protected]
Zeromobile:
T. + 39 02 92976000
E-mail: [email protected]