There were 500 million users, four years earlier than WeChat ... This APP will withdraw from the stage!

Recently, China Mobile issued an announcement that its "Hefei" business will stop providing services from September 30, when users will be unable to log in and use "He Fetion".

Today (July 25), "He Fetion" will stop service -related topics on the hot search. Many netizens have lamented that they were "deep memory" when they used.

500 million users in 15 years of operation

"Fetion" was an instant messaging service launched by China Mobile in 2007. In the context of voice calls and SMS at that time, "Fetion" fusion of voice, GPRS, SMS and other communication methods, using SMS discounts, mobile terminals and PCs The main selling point can be sent for free interoperability. It has received 500 million registered users around 2010, and the active users of the peak period are nearly 100 million.

However, in 2011, WeChat was born, and the gradual popularization of smartphones opened a new chapter of free and instant messaging. SMS communication was gradually abandoned by users, and Fetion gradually began to be lonely.

Fetion has tried to transform the enterprise application

In 2016, Fetion was renamed "He Fetion" and officially joined a series of members of "He Zenger" composed of a series of applications under China Mobile. China Mobile once tried to make it into an enterprise version. In 2018, China Mobile officially announced that Fetion's transformation work was launched, focusing on the "He Fetion" business of communication and collaborative office.

The suspension of this "He Fetion" also indicates that the transformation of Fetion finally ended.

Source: CCTV Finance

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