Community Phone, the Boston startup that provides an alternative to big cellphone carriers with plans starting at $25 per month, opened its first pop-up store in Harvard Square.
Community Phone currently partners with T-Mobile and Sprint and plans to add AT&T to its network soon. As BostInno wrote in October, the company is able to keep costs low by offering utility-based plans -- with unlimited texts and talking time, as well as one gigabyte every month. Customers can pay a dollar for every 100 megabytes of additional data they consume.
Community Phone's clientele also plays a role in this. As founder James Graham noted, the company's users include geriatric consumers, middle school kids with divorced parents and a lot of international students. He said that their phone usage tends to be limited to texts, emails, calls and some basic apps. The company also counts the CEO of KFC as one of its customers.
"We want to increase loyalty by decreasing bills for our customers," Graham said.
Check out Community Phone's full profile here.
