Israeli App Makes Sure You Always Have Reception
Glove, a new Israeli-based startup, ensures that you have a signal on your cellphone everywhere you go, even those places with no reception
By: Miriam Young
Published: January
9th, 2014 in Business » Israel
You may have the swankiest smartphone on the block, but if
you’re in an area with no reception, it becomes about as useful as a brick.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could make sure you always have signal? Well,
there’s an app for that and it’s made in Israel.
Glove is a new startup, launched in December 2013, with an app
that figures out which cellphone carrier has the best coverage for each
individual user.
According to the company, three out of four people could be on a
better carrier at any moment. After downloading the app to your smartphone, it
runs for three days and analyzes the signal on your phone in various locations,
providing an option for an immediate switch to a better plan, referring the
user to the carrier.
“Wireless carriers all have different levels of coverage within
their networks in different areas,” co-founder Ori Goshen tells NoCamels.
“Glove does all the hard work of figuring out which carrier will give you the
best wireless service and then it provides a personalized carrier
recommendation.”
“In today’s world, when people are [more] dependent on their
mobile devices and connectivity than ever before, choosing the right wireless
carrier is one of the most important purchasing decisions that consumers
make. Glove is reshaping
the mobile industry by giving consumers the knowledge & power to get on
a network that fits them the best,” Goshen adds.
Finding the plan that fits
Goshen and his two partners, Amit Lubovsky, Gil Friedlander,
already created another app together, called Tawkon. The app tells users how
much radiation they are exposed to on their cellphone. Goshen says the
technology developed for Tawkon became a great foundation for Glove, as it can
be used to monitor network quality.
“We’re essentially crowdsourcing mobile experience to map
coverage and quality levels of wireless networks. We already gathered more than
a billion network events that show how various networks perform in different
areas,” Goshen tells NoCamels. Basically, the app collects data regarding cell
coverage and adds it to the company’s database, making their suggestions to
other users more accurate.
For each customer who switches carriers using the app, Glove
gets a fee. The company says this creates a creates a win-win situation, since
if the carrier offers quality service and good coverage – it will gain more
costumers.
The application is free for download in America and Israel. It
currently is only available
for Android and will be coming out on iOS soon.
Reprinted with permission from No Camels -
Israeli Innovation News
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