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Speaker 1: A new cell phone carrier offers the quality of the

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Speaker 1: Verizon network for just forty bucks a month unlimited.

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Speaker 2: What's going on on rich Demiro.

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Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech and today we're talking to

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Speaker 1: Miguel ki Roga.

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Speaker 2: He is the CEO of Visible.

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Speaker 1: This is a brand new startup that is basically an

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Speaker 1: mv and O on the Verizon network. So imagine getting

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Speaker 1: the Verizon network with that great signal, but for forty

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Speaker 1: dollars a month, all included. Miguel, let's talk about this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, right, thanks for having us so visible. Yes,

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Speaker 1: this is basically a company that's owned by Verizon, that's right,

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Speaker 1: but it's a startup carrier.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what does that mean. That's yeah, we're owned by

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Speaker 3: Verizon but independently operated. And it's interesting you use the

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Speaker 3: word mv and oh because that's an often used term

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Speaker 3: in the industry. We actually aren't an mv and O

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Speaker 3: because we are what's called a facilities based carrier therefore

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Speaker 3: a network facilities based so we have essentially Verizon's network

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Speaker 3: facilities at our fingertips of the ability to use that

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Speaker 3: that we're essentially orchestrating and building the type of experience

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Speaker 3: simply use experience, one price, one plan, direct to consumer,

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Speaker 3: and that's essentially the difference that we're providing and using

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Speaker 3: the best of both worlds.

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Speaker 1: Interesting, So an mv and O is more of like

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Speaker 1: someone who leases the network from a company and like

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Speaker 1: kind of runs their own exactly.

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Speaker 3: That's not what we are. We don't lease the network

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Speaker 3: in that example because we're owned by Verizons, So therefore

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Speaker 3: we have a different relationship altogether.

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Speaker 2: Interesting.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so explain to me what Visible is. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I already said the forty dollars, but I want to

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Speaker 1: hear from you forty bucks a month.

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Speaker 2: What do I get for that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's basically forty dollars a month unlimited data, voice,

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Speaker 3: and minutes basically on Verizon's nationwide four GLT network. It's

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Speaker 3: one price, one plan, all taxes and fees included. And

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Speaker 3: the focus for us and our business model is to

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Speaker 3: have the simple, most easiest use experience in the wireless

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Speaker 1: So with forty dollars a month, now, immediately, whenever you

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Speaker 1: hear something like this, you hear Verizon, you hear forty

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Speaker 2: You hear a carrier name that you haven't really heard before.

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Speaker 1: You just think, okay, there's obviously some catch so just

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Speaker 1: everything out there. The one thing that I do know

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Speaker 1: that's different than the typical Verizon network is a speed

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Speaker 1: limitation of five megabits per second. That's correct down, which

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Speaker 1: you can explain that in a second, but that's basically it, right,

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Speaker 1: that's correct.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And the other thing too is to recognize is we're

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Speaker 3: an all digital carrier, so therefore we don't actually have stores.

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Speaker 3: We actually believe that by providing the ability for a

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Speaker 3: customer to order this type of experience from their couch,

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Speaker 3: get it delivered to their home, ultimately get up and

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Speaker 3: running very quickly and very seamlessly, is the type of

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Speaker 3: experience we believe that customers want to have. We did

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Speaker 3: two years of extensive research, co creation, serving, talking to

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Speaker 3: customers directly of like, what exactly do you actually want

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Speaker 3: in your wireless carrier, and what we realized was that

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Speaker 3: customers really want simplicity. They want a carrier that's going

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Speaker 3: and understand. And so we've built from the ground up

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Speaker 3: and essentially that's what we've delivered to our customer.

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Speaker 1: And the reality is there are a lot of customers

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Speaker 1: out there that are pretty much overpaying on their bill

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Speaker 1: because now, for me, I feel like every single month

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Speaker 1: I get every single penny out of my bill with

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Speaker 2: I'm the power user.

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Speaker 1: But people like my wife, who I look at her

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Speaker 1: So for someone like her, you're literally going to say

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think the way to think about it is we

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Speaker 3: their life on the go. And so that's why we

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Speaker 1: And with the network, it is the full Verizon network.

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Speaker 1: So it's not like, you know, some of the towers

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Speaker 1: work with Visible some don't.

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Speaker 2: You know, you're in a rural area, you're not going

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we basically are using Verizons four GLT network, So

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Speaker 3: that means that our accessibility to that network would be

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Speaker 3: We're using the network experience combined with the Visible tech stack,

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Speaker 3: and those two things combined essentially is what we offer

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Speaker 1: And is throttling a thing when it comes to you know,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't have the concept of throttling. We focus

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Speaker 3: more on having the unlimited data, voice in minutes.

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Speaker 2: And what about hot Spot?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we actually have mobile Hotspot as part of an

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Speaker 1: And that's something that you don't see now you said

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Speaker 3: That's correct. We're still in an early access mode and

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Speaker 3: predominantly because we're really focused on listening to customers. So

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Speaker 3: this is our opportunity to really listen to our customers

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Speaker 3: tailored experience, continue in the tune, and grow the features

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Speaker 1: Now, when this service first launched, it seems like there's

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Speaker 1: System that you literally you order your sim from you

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Speaker 1: you know, you go online, you order the SIM. I

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Speaker 1: So signing up for Visible, I don't go into a

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Speaker 3: We Basically the idea is you go online on the

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Speaker 3: have digital payments. You can use Venmo, you can use PayPal,

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Speaker 3: and essentially we'll ship you the sim.

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Speaker 2: Can use a regular credit card, yeah, red card, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And you know, obviously you want to do

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Speaker 2: And you know, that.

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Speaker 3: Allows you to either port a number in or that

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Speaker 3: And basically that's all you need to do. It's pretty simple,

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Speaker 1: So tell me about what phones work on here? You

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Speaker 3: Yeah? You actually just go to our checkout process and

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Speaker 3: check to make sure your phone is compatible with our network.

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Speaker 3: Is it most iPhones at this point, Yeah, buy and

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Speaker 3: large pretty much all iPhones are. But there's a few

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Speaker 1: Now, there's going to be some people who try to

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Speaker 2: Not gonna work, Not gonna work.

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Speaker 3: At the moment. Why not, Well, because we started with

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Speaker 1: So Verizon obviously has this giant network of stores, personnel

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Speaker 1: How do you guys do that And talk a little

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Speaker 1: literally have these stores that you've painted your color, that's right,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it's the four or four store campaign for us,

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Speaker 3: and you know, we're doing a little bit of tongue

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Speaker 3: and when you do that, you have to get people's attention. So, yes,

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Speaker 3: it's our brand blue, but it's also kind of a

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Speaker 3: kind of bring them into our digital experience. Yes, it's

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Speaker 1: Are you selling phones as well? That's not something we're

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Speaker 1: we're looking at all customer opportunities in terms of the

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Speaker 1: like I said, Android would probably be something that comes

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Speaker 2: So who do you see is sort of your biggest

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I don't. I don't think we see

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Ultimately, it's our experience and it's simplicity of our offering.

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Speaker 3: We're basically giving customers exactly what they're looking for based

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Speaker 1: And I still feel like there's got to be a

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Speaker 1: ninety dollars a month on average for an unlimited plan, Right,

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Speaker 1: how is Visible giving me Verizon's network, which by the

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Speaker 3: Right? Yeah, this is this is geared towards a very

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Speaker 3: and that's okay. You know, we're really focused on the

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Speaker 3: type of digitally savy customer or customer value simplicity on

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Speaker 3: a single line basis. So we believe that's why it's

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Speaker 1: What about fees, you know, activation fee, thirty five bucks

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Speaker 3: Nope, it's forty dollars. Yeah, it's all forty dollars all in,

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Speaker 3: basically all taxi fees. And again that's like part of

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Speaker 3: want to say, here's my price, I get my thing.

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Speaker 3: the service to do. Like what is wireless character's supposed

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Speaker 3: to do. It's supposed to connect you with other human beings.

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Speaker 3: That's the whole point. And so we believe that eliminating

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Speaker 1: And the name Visible, Yes, where did that come from?

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Speaker 3: We focus on transparency. We focus on providing value to

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Speaker 1: So explain to me a little bit more about the

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Speaker 1: Can you talk a little bit about the new iPhones

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Speaker 1: to be active this year, maybe next year, and here

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Speaker 1: in the US kind of a different concept for people

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Speaker 1: to be able to activate align by scanning a QR

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Speaker 1: code with their camera on their phone. So will Visible

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, Yeah, I mean the way you're.

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Speaker 1: Putting a SIM in a phone is something and I've

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, Look, you know, we've built the Visible experience, We've

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Speaker 3: So absolutely, there's things like that that we're closely focused on,

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Speaker 3: and as things come to market, we're going to definitely

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Speaker 1: Miguel ki Roga, CEO of Visible, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining me today. If you want to learn more about Visible,

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Speaker 1: go to the website it is rich on tech dot tv,

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Speaker 1: something here. All right, I'm Richidmiel, Thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 2: Bye bye,