Zer01’s unlimited voice/data overhaul full of bull?
Aug 18, 2009 8800, apple, iphone
Ben Piilani – Zer01 CEO
Sometimes, if it sounds too goodness to be true, it just mightiness be. Take, for instance, Zer01’s claim to a patented engineering that volition allow the company to provide unlimited wireless voice and data services to customers for just $70 per month. At first base, it sounded too good to be true. Zer01 said that they would be able to deliver truly unlimited radio service on the cheap by routing all calls and information through the troupe’s proprietorship VoIP meshing. Then, when Zer01 blitzed CTIA Wireless 2009 and won an award from Laptop magazine, the company’s claims started to seem plausible. Zer01’s CEO Ben Piilani even took the time to explain to IntoMobile his troupe’s plans to partner with a nationwide GSM carrier to become the premier “VoIP carrier” in the US (video below). Unfortunately, things ar now looking quite dismal for Zer01.
Zer01 had planned to go live with its network on July 1. That twenty-four hours came and went without so much as a populace presentation of the company’s network engineering. Zer01’s explanations for the launch delays rich person been varied, at topper. They’re downright suspicious, at worst. One story has the holdup organism attributed to SIM cards that needed to be defragged. Another blames the installing of software on said SIM card game for the launching delay. The floor keeps changing and Zer01 keeps dodging press inquiries. In fact, I’ve personally been hounding Zer01’s inboxes in hunt of some sort of communication for a handful of months. I rich person yet to get a reaction, but still continue to receive spammy press releases from Zer01 to this twenty-four hours.
Wait. It gets worse. Zer01 has enlisted an army of “associates” that were lured into paying the company a monthly fee in reappearance for “back office support” and the hope of earning $10 for every Zer01 customer that signs up under them. Doesn’t that auditory sensation like your classic multi-level marketing (pyramid) outline? Sure does. So much so that Laptop magazine has withdrawn its award to Zer01 Mobile River.
Zer01’s leadership has also come under fire recently, with many of its circus tent-floor executives organism cut or stepping down feather. At least single of its recently cut executives rich person now gone on track record with the ruling that Zer01’s associates would never see a payroll check from the troupe, and that Zer01’s launching is unlikely. Zer01 is also affiliated with other shady companies that have ties to shady multi-floor selling businesses. Zer01 and its affiliates apparently employment executives with records stained by probation for fruad, investigations for humbug and suspicious certificate. The graphic below (from NetworkWorld)explains Zer01’s web of shady traffic more clearly.
All in all, Zer01 needs to prove themselves legitimate as soon as possible. The baseball of bullshit is wheeling. Ben Piilani would do well to get his red cent together and bring his troupe out of the shadows. Assuming Zer01 is even a viable mobile company…
Take a looking at Ben Piilani’s interview after the break.
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