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Zer01 Wireless Vanishes Into the Ether

Mar 15, 2010, 9:12 AM by Eric M. Zeman

Zer01, a company which launched with the promise of unlimited voice and data services for $70 per month, has gone dark. The company first came to light in 2009. It claimed it would offer wireless services that piggy-backed on the data networks of other providers' through its own proprietary technology. The company partnered with another firm called Global Verge, which was later exposed as a pyramid scheme attempting to reel in sales people. Globel Verge's executives had criminal records implicating them in previous pyramid schemes. The two companies parted ways and Zer01 maintained its promise to bring its services to market. Phone Scoop spoke with executives in November 2009, but was never able to get clear answers on how the technology worked or when the services would go live. The company's web site is now devoid of content and directing traffic to Google.com. Zer01's press office has not responded to requests for comment.

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muchdrama

Mar 15, 2010, 5:43 PM

This is the new thing...

...down here in horrible South Florida. "Tiered" sales promising FREE wireless voice & data to all who participate. Riiiiiiiiiiiight.

Suckers.

Globhead

Haven't heard much from FDI Telecom lately either. Apparently everyone in the country can make $1,000,000/year by selling unlimited Internet for $20.

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bluecoyote

Mar 15, 2010, 10:17 AM

You're all fools

"As Piilani explained it, while MVNOs buy capacity from a carrier and resell it later, Zer01 has its own IP backbone and only uses carrier networks to interconnect or roam."

-CNet

Anyone with a 4th grade education could've called out this BS, yet nobody in the press did. Laptop Magazine (a publication so competent their web site is down as I write this) gave them a "Best In Show" award.

I'm renting a booth at next year's CTIA and coming up with a magical unicorn-based picowave communication system with Android phones that aren't garbage using cellular blimps (the unicorns are strapped to the blimps) that broadcast 6G Networks!!!!!

PEZ

Dude, can I work for you?

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Jayshmay

That last paragraph is just
!!FKG!! funny!!!!!!

Jayshmay

Hey, check this out. I know your all anti-Adobe. But theres mention here of multiscreens, and talk of trying to get more webpages to look right across more platforms, like smartphones.

http://m.cnet.com/site?t=GsSW1xkCor0kOcTOXK5Tvg&sid= ... »

ecycled

bluecoyote said:

I'm renting a booth at next year's CTIA and coming up with a magical unicorn-based picowave communication system with Android phones that aren't garbage using cellular blimps (the unicorns are strapped to the bli

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(continues)

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Globhead

"Anyone with a 4th grade education
could've called out this BS, yet
nobody in the press did."

That isn't completely true. Network World did. I think CNet finally did after falling for it initially. And plenty of other news websites were on t...
(continues)

muchdrama

bluecoyote said:
"As Piilani explained it, while MVNOs buy capacity from a carrier and resell it later, Zer01 has its own IP backbone and only uses carrier networks to interconnect or roam."

-CNet

Anyone with a 4th grade educ

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(continues)

evrodude

Mar 15, 2010, 1:26 PM

Hahaha....

Hahaha I knew that those guys would never make it!

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