FreedomPop
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FreedomPop Raises Another $50M, Launches “Free” Global Data Hotspot And SIM
FreedomPop, the startup disrupting the businesses of traditional mobile carriers by giving people ways to use mobile devices free of any charges, is today adding another sizeable round to its coffers. The company has raised $50 million to continue its global rollout beyond its home market of the U.S. and to help launch new international products. The products include a new “free… Read More
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Intel Puts $22M In 10 Startups, With A Stake In FreedomPop To Launch A Rival To Google’s Project Fi
Intel Capital, the venture arm of the tech giant, today announced $22 million in new investments across 10 startups. The news was delivered at the company’s annual global summit, where it also said that it would invest half a billion dollars in total this year. This is both a rise and fall of sorts. As a point of comparison, during the same event last year, Intel announced $67 million… Read More
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FreedomPop Raises $10M More, Inks Strategic Deal With New Investor, Asian Carrier Axiata
FreedomPop, the U.S. wireless carrier startup that has been building a business based on completely free voice and data services, has raised another $10 million in funding from two strategic investors, the pan-Asian mobile carrier Axiata and an unnamed tech investor based in the U.S., the company is announcing today. The deal with Axiata will mean that FreedomPop will be expanding its free… Read More
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Rejecting M&A, FreedomPop Raises Another $30M For Its Free Mobile Service
FreedomPop is taking another step ahead today in its bid to build out a global mobile business based on free voice, text and data bundles and upselling additional services. Amid months of M&A rumors, the startup has raised another $30 million in funding — money that CEO and co-founder Stephen Stokols says will help FreedomPop grow its businesses independently. “We had a lot… Read More
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As Acquisition Rumors Swirl, Free Mobile Service FreedomPop Goes Live In The UK
FreedomPop, the mobile carrier that gives away mobile, data and text services and upsells users on other services, is today announcing its first international launch outside of the U.S. The company is opening up for business in the UK as a SIM-only service — meaning no phones, initially, just the cards that you put into a phone that you bring to the network. The free service will… Read More
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FreedomPop Turns On Unlimited Wi-Fi Across The US For $5/Month
FreedomPop, the startup that is trying to steal users away from mobile carriers by offering free, basic cellular voice and data plans, is adding another string to its bow today: the company is launching a low-cost WiFi service, where a user gets unlimited use of, and automatic sign-on to, 10 million hotspots across the U.S. for $5. The service is potentially a shakeup for carriers that… Read More
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FreedomPop Brings Its Free Wireless Service To Europe, Sans Handsets
FreedomPop, the startup out of LA that has been going after U.S. carriers’ wireless business with a “free” basic mobile offering, is now bringing a SIM-only version of its service to Europe and beyond. Today, the company announced that it will kick off first with FreedomPop in Belgium, with rollouts also in the UK, Germany, France and Spain, as well as to markets in the… Read More
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FreedomPop To Offer App-Sized Data Plans, Free Use Of Sponsored Apps
Earlier this month, Facebook made some waves in the mobile world when it acquired Pryte, a platform for carriers to sell bite-sized (byte-sized), cheaper, data for specific apps or other services. Facebook’s interest was for its Internet.org push into developing markets, but it’s not the only one interested in a la carte data: a similar model is also getting rolled out in… Read More
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FreedomPop Announces The Privacy Phone, A Fully-Encrypted Smartphone For $10 A Month
Meet the Privacy Phone, a device that FreedomPop brags is the only smartphone and mobile service that allows for encrypted communications. Lovingly nicknamed the “Snowden Phone” by FreedomPop, It can even be purchased with Bitcoin to further protect the owner’s anonymity. Simply put, if you’re in the market for a phone to plan to help run a criminal enterprise or… Read More
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FreedomPop Takes Aim At Carriers With Its New, Free Phone Plan
Is your cell phone bill too expensive? So is mine. Wireless data startup FreedomPop has been trying to tackle that little financial truth for the better part of two years now, and it’s finally ready to take aim at traditional wireless carriers and their pricey monthly plans. In exchange for a whopping zero dollars a month, you can have 500MB of data, 500 text messages, and 200 voice minutes. Read More
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Freemium Wireless Startup FreedomPop Embraces Sprint’s LTE Network With New Hardware
If there was ever a reason not to use wireless data startup FreedomPop’s freemium mobile internet service, it’s because you were stuck cruising on Clearwire’s pokey WiMAX signals. Not everyone is going to fret over the results of a speed test when they’re able to get online and get things done for very little money, but reliance on a mostly abandoned network technology… Read More
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FreedomPop Raises Another $5 Million To Help Launch Its Freemium Mobile Phone Service
Freemium wireless internet provider (and soon to be wireless carrier) FreedomPop revealed that it has just locked up another $5 million in funding from existing investors DCM Capital and Mangrove Capital, and that its (so far undisclosed) valuation has more than doubled since it first raised its Series A last year. That new infusion of capital brings FreedomPop to a total of $16 million… Read More
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FreedomPop Will Take On Carriers This Summer By Offering Smartphones And A New Freemium Phone Plan
Freemium wireless internet startup FreedomPop has been out to undercut traditional wireless carriers on data plan costs for over a year now, but now the company wants to up ante once more. In exchange for a recurring monthly fee of $0, users of the company’s forthcoming phone service will be able to get 500MB of wireless data access, 200 voice minutes, and unlimited messaging starting… Read More
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Nine Months After Talking Up The Carrier Deal, FreedomPop Shows Off Its First Sprint-Friendly Hotspot
FreedomPop has been promising to bring mostly free 4G internet access to the masses for over a year now, but those ambitions have been hampered by partner Clearwire’s spotty WiMax coverage — there are sizable swaths of the country where you just can’t get service. That won’t be the case for much longer though, as FreedomPop has just started taking orders its first… Read More
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After Focusing Mainly On Mobile, FreedomPop Is Now Bringing Freemium WiMAX Internet To Your Home
FreedomPop has spent the past year trying to turn the wireless industry on its ear with its freemium mobile internet service, but the Niklas Zennstrom-backed company is now setting its sights on replacing people’s pricey home internet contracts. After teasing folks with pre-orders for wireless modems late last year, FreedomPop officially opened up its home service to the masses this… Read More
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FreedomPop Raises Another $4.3 Million In Funding, Finally Lets Users Share Their Data
Freemium wireless service provider FreedomPop has been pumping out its fair share of hardware lately, and its momentum seems to have been received favorably by its backers. The company, which aims to dole out 500MB of free WiMAX data to the masses, has raised $4.3 million in funding from current investors DCM and Mangrove Capital and finally rolled out its oft-touted social data sharing feature. Read More
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Three Months After The First Teaser, FreedomPop Begins Shipping Its $99 WiMAX-Friendly iPod Touch Cases
Freemium wireless Internet startup FreedomPop made good on its word by kicking off its public beta earlier this month and hocking USB modems and mobile hotspots, but that launch left many of its would-be users asking one question: Where are the iPhone and iPod touch cases the company unveiled all those months ago? Well, that wait is over… for some people, anyway. FreedomPop has just… Read More
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FreedomPop Opens Its Freemium Internet Service To The Masses With New Public Beta
It’s been nearly a year since a company called FreedomPop announced its intentions (through a cryptically ambitious press release, no less) that it planned to bring “free broadband” to data-hungry users nationwide. The early FreedomPop site didn’t inspire much confidence, but it wasn’t long before the team’s practical vision came to light. Put simply… Read More
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FreedomPop Reveals New WiMax iPod Touch Case, Sheds Light On Data Pricing Plans
There’s been quite a little buzz building around FreedomPop thanks to its ambitious plans to provide freemium wireless internet to everyone in the United States, not to mention its peculiar 4G-friendly iPhone cases. As it turns out, that’s not all that the Niklas Zennstrom-backed company has been working on behind closed doors. FreedomPop has just announced that it plans to… Read More
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FreedomPop Teams With Sprint To Broaden Reach Of Its Freemium Internet Service
FreedomPop, the ambitious startup devoted to bringing freemium internet to the masses, has been awfully busy lately. The last time they popped up on our radar the company had just put its WiMAX-capable iPhone sleeves on pre-order, but the team has been up to more than just churning out data-friendly cases. In addition to working with Clearwire, FreedomPop announced earlier today that it has… Read More
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