The People's Operator PLC Appointment of Non-Executive Director (4892D)
October 27 2015 - 3:00AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 4892D
The People's Operator PLC
27 October 2015
The People's Operator plc
("TPO" or the "Company")
Appointment of Non-Executive Director
The People's Operator (AIM: TPOP), the cause-based commercial
mobile virtual network operator ("MVNO"), is pleased to announce
the appointment of James Rosenfeld as Non-Executive Director with
immediate effect.
James Oliver Rosenfeld, aged 26, is the son of Andrew Rosenfeld,
the Company's co-founder and former Chairman. James is a member of
the Real Estate team at The Blackstone Group where he is involved
in private equity real estate transactions across the U.K. and
Europe. Prior to joining Blackstone, James worked for Goldman Sachs
where he was a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions team focusing
on companies in the consumer and retail sectors.
James holds a master's degree in Real Estate Finance from the
University of Cambridge and a first class degree in History from
the University of Oxford.
There are no other matters which are required to be announced
under Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.
For further information
The People's Operator plc
Nick Dashwood Brown, Head of Investor 020 7251
Relations 6648
finnCap Ltd
Stuart Andrews / Christopher Raggett 020 7220
/ Simon Hicks 0500
About The People's Operator
The Company was founded in 2012 and currently offers customers
pay monthly ("PAYM") and pay-as-you-go ("PAYG") mobile contracts.
These contracts are competitively priced and allow users to direct
10% of their monthly bill to a cause of their choosing at no
additional cost to themselves. In addition, The TPO Foundation, a
UK registered charity, will receive 25% of the UK trading profits
generated by The People's Operator LLP. A similar structure is
proposed to be adopted in other countries.
The strategy of the Group is to maintain a low fixed-cost base,
small staff numbers and lower levels of advertising and marketing
expenditure than its competitors. In addition, as TPO operates as
an MVNO, the Group is not expected to be exposed to the high
infrastructure costs and large capital investment charges that
traditional mobile operators can incur. This strategy is expected
to enable the Group to offer customers a highly competitive pricing
model with a high quality of service, whilst generating an
attractive return to shareholders after donations to causes.
TPO has developed partnerships with community organisations and
causes who promote TPO's products to their supporters. Under the
direction of Jimmy Wales, the founder of the online encyclopaedia
Wikipedia, the Company is also developing an online viral community
to expand the global network of mobile phone customers who share in
the common belief of supporting causes.
The Directors believe that this strategy is scalable into new
markets around the world which offer competitive wholesale mobile
network bandwidth prices and where subscriber acquisition and
revenue growth can be driven quickly at a low incremental cost once
network agreements have been concluded with local network
operators.
Initially, TPO launched in the United States in July 2015 having
signed a long term operating agreement with Sprint, the third
largest wireless network operator in the USA, in September 2014.
Following expansion into the USA, the Directors have identified a
number of jurisdictions for future expansion of the TPO offering
(Mexico, Brazil, Asia and Europe) and over the next 18 months the
Group intends to negotiate a series of operating agreements with
established network operators in these regions with a view to
replicating the model in an increasing number of countries
worldwide.
TPO was admitted to AIM on 4 December having successfully raised
approximately GBP20 million, before expenses, through a placing at
130p per Ordinary Share which will primarily be used to invest in
the development of its viral, on-line global community platform and
to provide working capital for expansion.
For more information, visit:
https://www.thepeoplesoperator.com.
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