Comments on: FreedomPop’s home broadband service goes live. Can you survive on 1 GB a month? http://gigaom.com/2013/03/06/freedompops-home-broadband-service-goes-live-can-you-survive-on-1-gb-a-month/ Wed, 22 May 2013 09:47:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: stevehc1 http://gigaom.com/2013/03/06/freedompops-home-broadband-service-goes-live-can-you-survive-on-1-gb-a-month/#comment-1320651 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:21:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=617393#comment-1320651 One of the here-to-for unspoken potential applications for Freedompop’s “free” 500 mgb and 1 GB plans is VOIP. Most voip services – such as MagicJack and NetTalk – utilize and require *very* little bandwidth, and 4g speed is generally adequate for such a purpose. Consequently most such consumers could probably get by with using the free Freedompop plans if used solely for such a purpose. Thus, telephone service could conceivably be obtained for nothing more than the up-front cost of their VOIP device and Freedompop hardware plus the $20-$30 per year cost of the VOIP service.

Even people who need the more traditional Internet services provided by cable and DSL providers (for much more demanding applications such as video streaming, web browsing, and file uploading/downloading) could conceivable benefit from adding on Freedompop’s free (but limited) Internet service for exclusive VOIP use , as doing so would eliminate VOIP service degradation currently experienced by simultaneous use of more demanding and bandwidth-hogging services.

]]> By: whyzor http://gigaom.com/2013/03/06/freedompops-home-broadband-service-goes-live-can-you-survive-on-1-gb-a-month/#comment-1318014 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:37:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=617393#comment-1318014 What are the other 2 top tiers of service? The link to Freedompop’s website just links to their welcoming page.

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