Steve Turner

New York City, NY (USA)
Role(s):
Founder/Owner/Principal

Blu-Linx Mobility

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Location: New York City
Industry: Telecommunications
Year Founded: 2013
Number Employees: 1-10 people
Business Stage: Creation/Idea
Entity Type: "C" Corporation
Description: Blu-Linx Mobility (BLM) offers a proprietary cost-effective, easy-to-install mobile App-based to international travelers with a mobile smart phone a "seamless mobile "local access" service, thereby enabling Users to avoid the "bill shock" of international data & voice roaming charges. Internationally-travelling end users get mobile "local access" services, enabling the ability to make international calls worldwide as a "local" in-country mobile customer of (BLM-partnered) participating local in-country cellular carrier. -- No need to buy and install a local SIM chip; --(not a “magic jack” variant – no need to hunt for a WiFi hotspot) -- ubiquitous “rented” cellular service throughout the local mobile carrier’s service area (e.g. countrywide) --No phone "unlocking" or permission of your Home Country cellular carrier needed. -- You retain you original mobile phone number -- Offered as an additional mobile amenity through participating international hotels. -- Utilizes a platform of proven-technologies comprised of "carrier-grade" mobile wireless network design elements -- Core proprietary technology -- enabling seamless remote "decoupling" of home country carrier's "locked" mobile services, and "renting" "local access" cellular services with another carrier (i.e. a participating foreign local mobile carrier) -- enabling huge savings on normally international roaming charges -- including "international plans" offered by your home carrier. Current Phase: Completing Testing Phase with participating Toronto Starwood-branded Hotel Addressable Market: Offering through Hotel Chains worldwide: road warrior/ business hotel guests; enterprise clients; international tourists; anyone who travels abroad and owns a smart phone. [The Fall of the "Roaming Empire"] Strategic Technology Partners include international "best-of-breed/name brand mobile telecom service providers, as well as "tier 2"/"tier 3" mobile cellular service providers. Revenue Model: Revenue sharing with participating hotels worldwide -- we charge a small sliver off a piece of the >900% profit margins the major mobile carriers make annually in charging "monopoly rents" to customers for international data & voice services. Management: Seasoned professionals in mobile network design & integration. Seeking Funding: $750K -- $1.2MM (to reach cash-flow breakeven)