About Bump and our mission

Bump’s mission is to democratize connectivity. The app turns every phone into part of a peer-to-peer network: people with data to spare share it with people nearby who need it, and get paid for it. No SIM swaps, no contracts, no special hardware.

The connectivity chasm

Connectivity is most expensive where people can least afford it. Over 1 billion people own a mobile phone but have no or limited connectivity.

• 13x more per MB is paid by prepaid users than by postpaid customers.
• 5%+ of average monthly income is what 1 GB of data costs in low and middle income countries.
• 84% of all broadband in low and middle income countries is mobile-only.

What Bump does about it

Postpaid plans come with more data than most people use, and prepaid users pay the most for the least. Bump lets the first group sell their leftover data to the second, phone to phone, at a price below what a small prepaid pack costs. The sharer earns money, the person connecting pays only for the megabytes they use, and their traffic travels through an encrypted tunnel the sharer cannot read.

Bump is in public beta on Android in Brazil and Colombia. The prices pages for Brazil and Colombia explain why we started there and compare Bump with each carrier. How Bump works explains the engineering.

The company

Bump is made by Bump, Inc., a United States company based in Boston. Company details and contacts are on the Bump Inc page. Investors and journalists: see For investors & press.