An interesting business model caught my attention here in the USA. It’s called “Free mobile operator freedompop”.
As you may know, mobile communication in the USA is expensive. We pay $140 a month for three phones – unlimited SMS and calls and a lot of internet.
Freedompop offers free communication, but, of course, it’s limited each month in terms of minutes, SMS, and megabytes.
Obviously, you can buy additional packages, but it’s interesting to see how to do this with no money. They have two intriguing offers: you can open a section called “Want for free,” and there you’ll find advertisements. You need to do something, register somewhere, participate in a survey, download a coupon, and eventually, you get payment in the form of minutes or megabytes. You can also invite friends, and then you will benefit as well.
Furthermore, they have a mechanism to “share traffic with friends”. That is, if you have an excess, you can gift it to someone in the network, and then that someone will have more minutes or megabytes. As a result, people form micro-clubs where they gift each other megabytes and minutes.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 