Be your own mobile carrier with Sonopia

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Be your own mobile carrier with Sonopia

by Emily Price Apr 2nd 2007

Starting today you, yes you, can be your very own mobile carrier through the company Sonopia. Sonopia allows individuals to create their own calling plans and then sell them to others. Your wireless carrier is just like any other with unique calling plans and allows you to send out messages to your subscribers.

The actual service for Sonopia is farmed out to Verizon and Vodaphone. Sonopia takes care of passing out handsets, sending out monthly bills, and basic customer service. You take care of getting the customers and raking in the cash. A percentage of the monthly revenue generate from your mobile carrier goes directly to you or your organization. If you can pull in enough subscribers you could stand to make a bundle pretty easily.

The build-your-own aspect of Sonopia just launched today. I was able to launch my own Emily Mobile in about 5 minutes complete with calling plans and my own website. It was extreamly easy to set-up, requires no money, and in fact doesn't require you to even subscribe to your own mobile service.

Sonopia has the potential to be great tool for huge organizations and niche topics that people will want to get constant contact about on their cell phone. Unfortunately for Sonopia I feel like an influx of Emily Mobile's are on the way...

Tags: cell phone, CellPhone, mobile carrier, mobile phone, MobileCarrier, MobilePhone

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