Backed by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, FreedomPop aims to disrupt the mobile broadband industry by providing mobile Internet to consumers free of charge.
Last year, the level and ferocity of cyber-attacks on the internet reached such a horrendous level that some are now thinking the unthinkable: to let the internet wither on the vine and start up a new more robust one instead.
Mobile video traffic was more than half of all wireless data usage by the end of 2011 at 52%, and video is expected to soar 25-fold between 2011 and 2016 to account for more than 70% of total mobile data traffic by then, according to Cisco Systems’ latest mobile data forecast.