“With these new pricing plans we are declaring war on an industry that has for too long taken advantage of consumers and only widened the digital divide,” said Stephen Stokols, FreedomPop CEO. “We not only offer 12 months of comparable service for the price of 1 month, but all the billing complexity that frustrates users is gone. There is no need for an annual contract when the total annual cost is under $100.”
Demand for the what the MVNO company is offering is skyrocketing. Nearly half a million users signed up for the beta invites that went out in October. They now offer a bring your own device plan and are planning to bring in more devices, and some LTE devices, later this quarter with plans to expand past Sprint only service and be able to pass through a second carrier. No word on which company they might be in talks with right now. T-Mobile is a likely candidate though.
I haven’t investigated FreedomPop too much. I do know that the unlimited calling and text package was a value add-on for the free 500MBs data service that they offer currently. Letting you have access to 500GB of data a month for no charge at all, with the exception of the upfront cost of a dongle or hotspots device. After reading through the source and the press release I am also finding out that another add-on lets you roll over any data not used for $3.50 a month.
Anyone out there have any experience with any of the FreedomPop service? How is it? Does it work out for your needs?
Source: FierceWireless 1 & 2
