How does FreedomPop make money?

Re:How does FreedomPop make money? by tedmiston on Friday August 25, 2017 @10:17AM (#15098589)

> FreedomPop pays Sprint and AT&T based on customer usage. The two big carriers can see what websites FreedomPop users are checking out, but neither they nor FreedomPop can record or monitor calls as long as only FreedomPop users are participants.

I wonder if the major carriers track and log web browsing history of their own customers as well? And if we can opt out...

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Re:How does FreedomPop make money? by samstave on Friday August 25, 2017 @11:12AM (#15098982)

Of course they can. Of course you cannot.

T-Mobile, for example even monitors and freaking blocks your usage to certain sites when on airplane mode and on wifi - even when you have wifi assist disabled.

Further, they even deduct from you data usage wifi use!

It's provable! I've proved it and T-Mobile Philippines call center says "oops let me reset your data plan" when called on it.

I proved it by only being in airplane mode and used wifi calling, and seeing that data was being deducted from my account when I wasn't using cell data.

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Re:How does FreedomPop make money? by wlesieutre on Friday August 25, 2017 @11:54AM (#15099375)

It's a shitty system, but they openly admit to doing this: https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-1680

If you have a plan that doesn't offer unlimited calling, calls made over Wi-Fi Calling count against your plan minutes. For Pay In Advance prepaid lines, calls made over Wi-Fi deduct from the plan bucket just like regular calls.

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Re:How does FreedomPop make money? by eclipxe on Friday August 25, 2017 @11:56AM (#15099391)

That’s one thing but he’s saying it’s counting Data. I can’t believe that.

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Re:How does FreedomPop make money? by samstave on Saturday August 26, 2017 @08:24PM (#15108263)

Believe it. They confirmed it last night when I spoke to them, they changed my plan without permission - tried to swindle me, but I got them to revert my data plan... too much to type on mobile, I'll come back and post more.

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Re:How does FreedomPop make money? by wlesieutre on Friday August 25, 2017 @11:57AM (#15099405)

Oh, that's crazy. I just saw "wifi calling" and automatically assumed it was their crappy policy on plan minutes (AT&T doesn't charge them).

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Re:How does FreedomPop make money? by ac29 on Friday August 25, 2017 @11:56AM (#15099399)

Thats a pretty bold claim. Can you name a single site Tmobile blocks when using WiFi?

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Re:How does FreedomPop make money? by samstave on Saturday August 26, 2017 @08:25PM (#15108266)

Yes I can, but don't care to do so here.

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Re:How does FreedomPop make money? by eclipxe on Friday August 25, 2017 @11:55AM (#15099382)

That seems very hard to believe

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Re:How does FreedomPop make money? by em3rgent0rdr on Friday August 25, 2017 @11:11AM (#15098974)

Yes & No (unless use TOR). To ask the question is to answer...they will do whatever they can get away with. Haven't you heard of the Snowden revelations?

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Re:How does FreedomPop make money? by theEXTORTCIST on Friday August 25, 2017 @11:37AM (#15099209)

TOR does not protect DNS queries out of the box. You must configure your PC to query through TOR or all of your DNS queries have the potential to leak to your ISP

https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/8/how-does-tor-route...

Verizon has been adding headers for tracking for some time (probably via Blue Coat ProxySG forward proxy or similar technology) https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/unique-identifier-he...

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