SurgePhone-LookHu Partnership Brings Customers Free Streaming Content

Brian Cox is a respected presence in Memphis, Tennessee. He leads Surge Holdings, Inc. and possesses expertise in a number of areas from telecommunications to blockchain and financial technology. This Memphis entrepreneur’s company recently announced a partnership with LookHu. Brian Cox has shared that this new endeavor will allow SurgePhone wireless subscribers to tap quality streaming content. 

At launch, LookHu will have been preinstalled on 20,000 Surge Volt_5XL smartphones, with users having the ability to access a no-cost, 30-day trial of all LookHu services. Additionally, as long as SurgePhone customers remain such, they will have access to basic LookHu services for free.

This new partnership guarantees SurgePhone customers unlimited access to Lookhu’s library of premium music, first-run television shows, and movies. As LookHu CEO Byron Booker described it, LookHu shares the same core customer base as Surge, with both companies’ demographics seeking to take advantage of "more for less.” 

Mr. Cox described the partnership as expanding the Surge ecosystem, at a time when the number of no-contract wireless consumers is approaching 100 million worldwide. Through providing affordable enhanced services, this partnership is well positioned to expand mutual market share across the country.

What are Blockchains?

Brian Cox, a business executive based in Memphis, Tennessee, leverages more than 15 years of leadership experience to guide broad-based tech company Surge Holdings as chairman and CEO. Under the leadership of Memphis's Brian Cox, Surge Holdings has a variety of services and ventures relating to blockchain technologies.

Similar to the Internet, blockchain technology was invented around the same time as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It operates as a type of database for financial transactions between two individuals. These transactions are all digitally signed by the involved parties, thus ensuring the database includes authentic information. 

Since blockchain technology's creation, it has not been significantly tampered with. This is because blockchains are overseen by a crowd of individuals, not by a single entity like a government or bank. Because no one person maintains the blockchain, it is much more secure than other forms of financial ledgers. This security is further boosted by the fact that the database is stored through computers and the internet instead of on paper.

To get a blockchain to work, an existing transaction must be edited or a new transaction must be made. In either situation, nodes within the blockchain activate and verify the history of the individual block that is involved. This block refers to a number of transactional records from the same party and it is linked to other blocks that were previously made in the blockchain by said party. Based on previous transactions, the blockchain determines whether a transaction signature is valid.

SurgePhone Wireless’s Streaming Content Partnership with Lookhu

Based in the greater Memphis, Tennessee area, Brian Cox serves as CEO of Surge Holdings, a publicly traded, broad-based technology company. Brian Cox, who established a children’s charity in Memphis, leads a company whose subsidiaries leverage technology to enhance the quality of life of underserved sectors. 

In May 2018, Surge Holdings' subsidiary, SurgePhone Wireless, entered into an agreement with Lookhu to offer streaming content to SurgePhone users. All of Lookhu's services, which include access to movies and music, come as a free 30-day trial for an unlimited number of SurgePhone subscribers who can obtain free LookHu basic services for as long as they are SurgePhone customers. For the launch, Lookhu was preinstalled on 20,000 Surge Volt_5XL smartphones.

According to Mr. Cox, this is another way for the company to add value to their product while the Surge ecosystem expands. Offering augmented services at affordable pricing helps Surge increase its nationwide market share with no-contract wireless customers expected to grow to 100 million subscribers.

Surge Holdings to Partner in Broad Marketing of Lifeline Telephone

Working from Memphis, Tennessee, Brian Cox serves as chairman and CEO of Surge Holdings, a company that specializes in investing in emergent sectors such as blockchain technology, social media marketing, and cryptocurrency. In his work at Surge, Memphis native Brian Cox also forges strategic partnerships with other companies to expand mobile services. 

Surge Holdings recently announced a partnership with TerraCom, Inc., that will see Surge make use of the DigitizeIQ marketing platform to help spur enrollments in the federal Lifeline discount telephone service. The package that the two companies will market includes a smartphone at no cost that comes with unlimited texting and a capped number of minutes and amount of data per month. Individuals and families who receive SNAP nutrition-assistance benefits, Medicaid, or a service-related pension are eligible for this service, which is limited to one per household. 

Surge CEO Brian Cox also said that his company will take the opportunity to market its low-cost mobile solution, SurgePhone Wireless, to these households so that those who are not candidates for the Lifeline service can be made aware of low-cost alternative mobile plans that Surge offers.

What is Blockchain?

Memphis area resident Brian Cox is a visionary entrepreneur who founded his first telecom company in 2004. A former collegiate football player, Brian Cox currently serves as the CEO of Surge Holdings, a publicly traded corporation that operates in the Memphis region.

Surge Holdings is a technology holdings company that provides services and solutions to the under-banked and overlooked millennial population. The firm, which recently reorganized to maintain control of its own marketing, distribution, and payment tools, owns subsidiary companies in the communication sector and the financial technology space.

At Surge Holdings, financial technology, or “Fintech”, includes blockchain software applications designed to facilitate high dollar transactions. Blockchains are made up of digital cryptocurrency transaction records, or "blocks", that form together to make a chain. With blockchain, any cryptocurrency transactions that occur instantly become a permanent record. Moreover, a blockchain is decentralized and publicly available, which allows it to serve as an open ledger. This not only simplifies financial transactions, it also removes the need for banks and other intermediaries.