10 Dec, 2009
Peek: Fon and Spotnik are disrupting data roaming
Posted by: Francesco In: Mobile World
At LeWeb ‘09 FON founder Martin Varsavsky announced Peek, a GPRS email gadget that, like Amazon’s Kindle, comes with (almost) free data connection all over Europe through the new MVNO Spotnik.
The price point is set at 99€, then for around 13€ per month you’ll get unlimited data to send and receive your emails.
This could be a serious threat to BlackBerry prosumer users, which have bought their BlackBerries just for the email functionality and now have a real alternative, less expensive and available everywhere around Europe without lengthy binding contracts.
At the same time, offering data roaming connection for a bunch of euros per month disrupts the current roaming market, nowadays hardly accessible to consumers and small businesses that can easily spend hundreds of euros over a weekend abroad.
I can’t wait to learn more about this!
