New channel.
New revenues.
Engage the way people shop now and in the future.
Buyers ask AI and pay directly inside a chat without going to a website.
blocfone® is a neutral eSIM marketplace where upstream mobile providers offer plans to sell voice, text and data, or data only, directly to subscribers.
Subscribers compare plans based on price and device location, or selected location, combined with provider coverage availability, service duration, allowances for calls, texts and data. No contracts. Just compare, sign and pay in-chat.
What’s different?
HOW IT WORKS
A simple API connection
blocfone® can fetch plan offers, or providers can push plan offers
Post
- Plan offers are received from providers and displayed to subscribers in standard format such as service type, price, allowance, duration, coverage zone. Your terms, pricing and coverage locations, never changed or discounted.
Match
- Subscribers are shown plan offers in-chat based on their actual location (or selected location), and the coverage available there. In-chat, blocfone® highlights the Best Offer that matches the subscriber’s needs, plus a few ‘close to best matches’, and a single click to view All Plans Available, sorted by price, low-to-high.
Deliver
- The subscriber accepts a plan to purchase in-chat, signs and pays for the plan via digital wallet in USDC. blocfone® workflow provisions the eSIM and associates the purchase to the subscriber’s digital wallet, in-chat, with simple instructions on how to install, activate, top-up, and get support.
Get paid
- Only upon verified eSIM delivery to a subscriber’s digital wallet, the USDC is paid into blocfone® and via smart contract execution, the eSIM plan payment is transferred to the provider’s digital wallet less the blocfone® platform fee. If the eSIM delivery fails, the subscriber is refunded automatically, and the eSIM remains available for purchase (no lost eSIM).
Permanently recorded
- Based on the patented architecture, the key transaction data touch-points are recorded permanently on-chain to ensure every purchase and legitimate chargeback is tracked and traced, whether to support business analytics, plan and price integrity, or upon lawful request from relevant authorities.
Competition and clarity are two different things
blocfone® treats all providers the same.
Your subscribers and prospective subscribers are already using AI to filter offers, muddling your own provider website offers with those of MVNOs and other channel partners. blocfone® is an extension of your own website offers, presented in a clear and simple chat to the subscribers, with an easy in-chat sign and pay process, whether a permanent or dynamic number, or data-only eSIM on the go. blocfone® is a channel that extends your reach, not undercut it just because it’s a neutral marketplace.
blocfone® is addressing a market of 17 million already
The patented blockchain architecture, utilising USDC as the first rail for payments, addresses a current user base of 17 million prospective subscribers who have a Solana-based wallet, the blockchain that runs USDC (Source: Phantom, From Crypto Product to Finance Platform. At its peak this year Phantom served almost 17 million monthly active users, 5x growth year-over-year and 28x above post-FTX 2023 lows).
Further, five of the largest global banks are working on projects that leverage USDC. Banco Santander, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and Standard Chartered are contributing global payments expertise to the design of the Circle Payments Network, which settles cross-border payments in USDC and EURC, with Standard Chartered becoming the first Global Systemically Important Bank licensed to offer institutional clients integrated USDC minting and redemption, and BNY enabling institutional clients to hold, mint and redeem USDC as the first stablecoin on its Digital Asset Custody platform (Source: Forbes).
And finally, trusted press indicates positive momentum for USDC, and all stablecoin (and similarly, future central bank issued digital currencies) as legitimate, and future-oriented payment methods:
blocfone® is ready for the future of Know-Your-Customer (KYC)
The way a subscriber uses a digital wallet to sign and pay, in-chat, in USDC, is already enabled to accept future government and bank issued digital ID credentials and custodial wallets because of the user payment flow, and how the patented blockchain architecture creates a permanent record that adheres to regulatory frameworks of the future.
blocfone® is built for the GenAI subscriber experience of the future
GenAI is the so-called ‘icing on the cake’ of well-automated processes. Built as an intuitive chat that incorporates modern payment rails, blocfone® enables GenAI the way it should be. Imagine mainstream subscribers accessing device-local AI/GenAI to help do tasks.
AI sees your trip to Paris now booked. It knows you don’t have an expensive roaming plan, so blocfone® pro-actively recommends a well priced data-only plan for the duration of your trip. In the chat, you agree, quickly sign, pay and go. Your eSIM is confirmed as delivered, ready to install and activate. Come back any time to your wallet, and find the order under My Orders.
Think about other use cases such as pro-active top-up notifications, new plans posted to blocfone®, the introduction of permanent numbers when KYC signing is trusted. Subscribers always have the choice between a simple, pre-defined chat or AI-enabled.
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blocfone® runs on Solana Mainnet.
The payment, delivery and settlement rails are proven in production. If you supply voice, data or text, and want a fresh engagement channel that will delight your subscribers, please contact us.
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