The Americans are Coming and This Time they have an MVNO with Free calls
FreedomPop is a company based in Los Angeles, California, using the free services business model, the company provides wireless data voice and text services through Clearwire and Sprint. wireless internet and mobile phone service provider
The companies claimed mission is to deliver free and fast mobile services to all Americans and now Brits.
FreedomPop is a new wave telecom company launched publicly in October 2012. It is headquartered in Los Angeles and backed by Skype Founder Niklas Zennstom's Atomico, Mangrove Capital, and DCM. Now they are launching in the UK FreedomPop will be available across the UK initially and expanding to other areas in the future with no roaming fees.
The business model is a proven business model with a twist. Free is really Free, they will offer no gimmicks or games. European reseller understands that the plan is to provide a basic service totally free of charge. The mentioned twist is simple, offering basic levels of mobile service 100% truly free. If you need more than basic, they will charge you and hope that you will pay for their bigger plans that are priced at maybe £5 or £10 per month.
The FreedomPopTeam in sunny California consists of seasoned web and telecom entrepreneurs who are committed to providing to customers free mobile services in the same way Skype provides free voice, Dropbox free data and Spotify free music. Through its innovative model and approach, FreedomPop currently offers customers free 4G mobile phone service, free wireless internet, and free home broadband.
FreedomPop's high speed wireless internet service runs across Sprint's LTE network, 4G WiMax and 3G CDMA networks.
At present the service is at a Beta stage and if you sign up they promise a service by summer 2015. European reseller believes they do not yet have a partner and when they do the MVNO will be a disruptive force.
European reseller will be interested in opportunities for resellers dealers and cloud companies with hosting opportunities, we will watch how this effects MVNO low cost, calls and roaming.
