A nationwide wireless service provider has enabled its smartphones and tablets with technology from a Grand Junction-based company to better manage streaming content.

FreeMo announced it’s enabling it affordable connectivity program devices with content shaping solutions from Sky Peak Technologies that will enable subscribers to view up to 10 times more streaming video content from YouTube, NetFlix and other sources.

The CORA Mobile Edge and CORA Shaping Libraries technology also will enable FreeMo to save on such resources such as data delivery, energy and bandwidth while delivering more streaming content.

“Our deployment with FreeMo is very exciting as it aligns with Sky Peak Technologies’ mission to empower small, rural and independent wireless communications service providers to increase their competitive advantage, profitability and subscriber satisfaction so that all people, regardless of geography or socio-economic status, can access data-intensive content, making our world more connected and educated,” said Cat Coughran-McIntosh, chief executive officer and co-founder of Sky Peak Technologies.

“It is impressive that FreeMo has the foresight to take this early adoption step, and we are looking forward to working with more ACP providers to further our mission across the country,” Coughran-McIntosh said.

FreeMo offers nationwide wireless service subsidized by the national affordable connectivity program and various state programs and includes free tablets and free monthly data plans delivered by FreeMo.

“The FreeMo goal is to bring more value, service and connectivity to the communities we serve,” said Leigh Hunt, chief executive officer of FreeMo. “By licensing CSL technology, we install a FreeMo mobile edge onto our smartphones and tablets, giving us the ability to deliver even more value and enhanced service to our subscribers.”

Sky Peak Technologies offers an on-device smart content shaping solution that provides mobile network operators and mobile virtual network operators a way to manage streaming video on mobile devices.

Coughran-McIntosh said demand has increased worldwide for data-intensive content.

By one estimate, 80 percent of data volume on the cellular network is from streaming video content. Moreover, there are
8.3 billion smart devices, each capable of connecting to data-intensive content at the push of a button.

That’s a growing burden to mobile virtual network operators, particularly regional and rural operators, she said.

“Our flagship product CORA Mobile Edge elegantly shapes data-intensive streaming video and right sizes it for the device requesting it,” Coughran-McIntosh said. “CORA ME smart shaping technology delivers a great user experience with considerably less data, thus reducing the bandwidth and energy resources needed to keep pace with this voracious consumption of streaming video.”

With an up to 88 percent reduction in resources needed to deliver data-intensive content to mobile devices, CORA ME enables operators to provide subscribers more streaming video content while at the same time freeing up the network for other operations and creating a more profitable environment, she said.