Internet service provider, EarthLink, is giving its wireless service another shot. The company previously launched its own wireless service brand called EarthLink Mobile. Unfortunately, early losses at the company caused them to stop the brand in 2007. It also prompted the company to sell off its Sprint MVNO, Helio, to Virgin Mobile USA in 2008.
And now, EarthLink is ready to give this another shot.
As reported by Fierce Wireless, EarthLink’s current CEO, Glenn Goad, observed that “carriers have done a good job of confusing buying a phone and buying a service, and people end up getting bills that end up being $100 a line and they can’t figure out why.”
This is what EarthLink Mobile wishes to change with their re-entry into the mobile market.
“We want people to buy the right phone and buy the right plan and have the right service… That’s what we’ve built over the last two years in the wired internet space and we’ve sold hundreds of thousands of people home internet because they don’t like the current choices that they have. We believe in mobility that we’ll see the same response -- there are people who are looking … for something different.”
So how does EarthLink Mobile plan to accomplish this? A visit to their website reveals a logo of T-Mobile MVNO, Ultra Mobile. This means that the MVNO will be launched through Plum, a T-Mobile aggregator.
The website also shows the different plans that EarthLink Mobile will offer:
$17.95/month plan - comes with 500 minutes, 500 texts, and 500MB of data
$21.95/month plan - comes with unlimited talk, text, and 1GB of high-speed data
$27.95/month plan - comes with unlimited talk, text, and 2GB of high-speed data
$34.95/month plan - comes with unlimited talk, text, and 5GB of high-speed data
$53.95/month plan - comes with unlimited talk, text, and 25GB of high-speed data
These plans also include unlimited international calling to more than 30 countries. High-speed data top-ups will also be available once they are ready. And lastly, there are no activation fees to sign up for any of these plans.
Right now, however, you can only sign up as an EarthLink Mobile customer by calling EarthLink at 1-866-314-0206. The company plans to launch in select retail locations by next year.
To learn more about EarthLink Mobile, visit this website.
Source: BestMVNO
