Comments on: FreedomPop’s plan to become the anti-carrier http://gigaom.com/2012/03/28/freedompops-plan-to-become-the-anti-carrier/ Sun, 19 May 2013 22:45:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Syed Karim http://gigaom.com/2012/03/28/freedompops-plan-to-become-the-anti-carrier/#comment-840562 Fri, 11 May 2012 10:34:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=504880#comment-840562 1GB (which I hear is actually 500MB now) for free seems like a great deal to me. I’m currently paying $30 for 300MB with AT&T. Why would someone like me *not* want to give this a try?

]]> By: micha http://gigaom.com/2012/03/28/freedompops-plan-to-become-the-anti-carrier/#comment-825678 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:54:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=504880#comment-825678 Nice to see that an MVNO is trying to get mobile bandwidth down to a reasonable price. With Open Garden we are working on mobile bandwidth sharing since almost a year and half now. Our peer2peer mesh app is ready and we are looking for more beta testers. it just requires an Android device and a laptop to test. To have more of you before our public release would be great http://bit.ly/privatebeta Thanks !

]]> By: Viswanath Gondi http://gigaom.com/2012/03/28/freedompops-plan-to-become-the-anti-carrier/#comment-825005 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:25:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=504880#comment-825005 The killer app for mobile broadband is video. That’s how the 1gb cap will look tiny. They would encourage using the wifi on laptops too, which should help.

Look for FreedomPop to upsell real time games, video and audio. Zynga, Netflix and Spotify will be good partnerships. Access to live sports streams, exclusive event broadcasts, etc should play a part in their revenue model too.

Don’t forget that there’s a killer live video streaming/analyzing startup lurking around, that hasn’t been built yet.

PS: They plan to charge a $100 deposit for the case, so someone planning to purchase 15 cases, that would put their deposits at risk.

]]> By: Dave Mackey http://gigaom.com/2012/03/28/freedompops-plan-to-become-the-anti-carrier/#comment-824464 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:44:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=504880#comment-824464 1 GB isn’t enough. :-/ And $.01 per MB is too much – that is $10.24 per additional GB!

]]> By: anon http://gigaom.com/2012/03/28/freedompops-plan-to-become-the-anti-carrier/#comment-824221 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:28:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=504880#comment-824221 in the US i would say a credit card would limit low income adoption period. people without much money do not like to hand over credit card number for something advertised as ‘free.’

for the slick people on the other hand who would want to max out what they get free by using multiple devices there are also cheap disposable prepaid credit cards they can grab at 7-11 or drugstores. one card for each dongle.

]]> By: Aswath Rao http://gigaom.com/2012/03/28/freedompops-plan-to-become-the-anti-carrier/#comment-824213 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:51:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=504880#comment-824213 They could control it by requiring credit card information and placing a cap on per person. Could they not?

]]> By: steve http://gigaom.com/2012/03/28/freedompops-plan-to-become-the-anti-carrier/#comment-824137 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:40:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=504880#comment-824137 telecom is due for some innovation

]]> By: anon http://gigaom.com/2012/03/28/freedompops-plan-to-become-the-anti-carrier/#comment-824124 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:35:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=504880#comment-824124 what would stop someone from getting 15 dongles for their laptop and swapping them out every other day or when they become maxed and cut off until the next month?

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