Now has come, it is here. FreedomPop begins to offer their data rates free, or low price- in Spain, after winning United States and United Kingdom. The new OMV, said consumer side, begins operations in order to make it a little harder to traditional search-and maintenance- telecom customers; including those OMV that have been created and purchased with the aim of improving services large.
Number portability will not be possible until a few months
In any case, the protagonist is FreedomPop now. Since his arrival in Spain announced in April, the company has been receiving requests you to use the services of the platform: today there are more than 100,000 . And although it seems a small number, the company forecasts for 2016 have been fulfilled. Mark Tluszcz commented to Hipertextual your year-end target was to reach 50,000 customers. That is, that in just two months-and without being qualified yet-have already doubled their goals. What, statements Stephen Stokols to Hipertextual , CEO of the company, already shows that “the business will be profitable in the short term in Spain”.
At the moment only it is a beta version that uses the Orange network for its operations, which will be entered in order of registration, but will soon be open to all. Nor may make portability during the first months ; “At the beginning can only give new numbers,” Stephen says. But it is on the way.
It seems that FreedomPop is big and has pulled the house out the window. They have already announced that later this summer will start selling Android devices at low cost, to provide the complete package. Stephen confirmed that already have an agreement with large companies, but can not comment on that
What is important:. The
One of the biggest unknowns rates that came with the arrival of FreedomPop addressed the issue of tariffs that were imported into Spain which, though better than before, telcos still have a fairly high prices. In the United States, with its model freemium , your bid is 300 MB, 300 minutes of calls and 300 SMS monthly for five euros. Well, we know what will come to Spain:
It is important to clarify an issue. The unlimited plan WhatsApp does have its limits , although they have not specified which ones. The FreedomPop use policy establishes boundaries to prevent abuse of this application and therefore discharge excess data. Although, in the words of Stephen, “would be very difficult to reach than the maximum”.
It should be noted that while WhatsApp is one of the applications most used by Spanish, consumption data on aggregate it is very small and also is not the only messaging application available on the market . So in this system, the rest is relegated to the group of general-purpose data. What if at some point some other App enter to be the protagonist?
“I really now depends on the Spanish consumer, for example WhatsApp is passed Line for will value. at the end will be the majority decide. Maybe you can add a second option. it all depends on the market. “
prices remain” forever “, unchanged from the operator. And these rates also add a special promotion which offer users during the first month, 2 GB of additional data . The issue of roaming, interesting for all those traveling, will apply in all countries of the European Union and the United States. Soon, added Stokols, Thailand, Vietnam, Brazil and, due to its ties with Spain, Mexico will be included.
And also a platform for exchange
the million dollar question is whether this is profitable and whether it is worthwhile to FreedomPop. The trick has to be somewhere. And at first it seemed that it was coming from the part of the data. In its free version, 100MB is something almost laughable, so many users will choose to acquire more data in order to make ends meet. But even this can free countries: FreedomPop proposes that customers can spend data between them if you do not need them. And for every new friend you do, in this sort of “social network” will receive an additional 20 MB. The pure definition of collaborative economy.
FreedomPop no longer a business, and as such seeks to have benefits. So where do you get them? His idea is that, in addition to users who are associated with payment plans, offered rates for second phone numbers , discounts for international calls, online safety and use of accumulated data.
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