Still Seeking to Shake Up Mobile Market, FreedomPop Also Looks to Rattle Home Broadband

FreedomPop, a start-up aiming to offer free and low-cost mobile broadband access, is now taking aim at the home Internet market as well. The company, backed by Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom, plans to start taking preorders for an $89 device to offer home broadband service using fixed WiMax service powered by Clearwire. As it does on the mobile side, FreedomPop will offer a chunk of data free each month, with low-cost options for additional gigabytes. With the home product, customers will get 1GB of data free each month, with a $10-per-month plan offering enough additional data to meet the typical consumer’s needs.