 One visual asset news. My name is Robert. Today I want to talk to you about is just a quick update about what's going on with world mobile token. And if you haven't heard me talk about this before, this is one of those crypto projects that has a real use case. This is a world mobile token scan link in the description. You can find this for yourself. And this gives data internet usage to the unconnected right now in Tanzania and Zanzibar in Africa. And it looks like the total network consumption over the last day or so is 1.71 terabytes. Now, that's not an enormous amount in first world countries. But if you've never had the internet, that is a huge enormous deal. So what I want to do is talk to Mickey Watkins. He's the CEO of world mobile and him and his team here. They have over 100 plus years of telecommunications and mobile phone experience just to see why they're doing this and just to give the updates. To talk about the why, it's very simple. And that is that in the entire world, we've got around 7.5 billion people, give or take. And right now, we've got about 3 billion people that are unconnected and are just in areas that just do not have the internet whatsoever. And if we keep doing it the old way, it's going to take us to 2050. So what world mobile did was this. They go, we're going to make this very simple. Instead of putting in those enormous cell phone towers for telecommunications and data, which costs millions of millions of dollars, which of course, they'll never be able to recoup because in those different areas that are unconnected are usually poorer. We're going to put in these. They're very small, very simple. And it's called an air node. And that's what's going to give these people access. So once this goes into the areas where people actually live and are unconnected, once this is already set up, the person that is living in these areas will go to their local shop. They will buy a card that will give them access to the world mobile token app. Once they have access to that and they paid for it, now they're going to download the world mobile token app because they have finally have access. That's going to give them a digital ID. And they're going to have access to these different apps, talk, text, financial service apps, which will give them access to the global economy, which is pretty big. But the question that is, well, why don't they just keep using cash or whatever their local currency is, instead of using Cardano for access to the network? It's because of this. The infrastructure to have telecommunications is not just just some magical wireless app. You have to have some type of infrastructure that keeps the data that puts the data out. And the only way to do that is through a sharing economy. And the best way to do that is in a decentralized manner, usually through earth nodes. And of course, we have our air node right here. And we talked about right in this picture right here. And the earth nodes are people like you and I who run the blockchain network. And what this does is it gives them access to authentication, identity, of course, the blockchain, engine node communication and all the data that you need to store to run the actual business itself. And then just so everybody knows, I am an earth node operator. So I actually have skin in the game. And then lastly, I will just say that there is, of course, we have these air nodes, but if you want a super air node, we can have one of these things called aero stats, these are the ones that are delivering the huge payload, they rise up in the air about 1000 feet, and they give a coverage around 50 feet. So if you need a large area to be covered, and you don't have any cell phone towers whatsoever, this would be the way to go. So without further ado, let's break in and talk to Mickey Watkins, the CEO of World Mobile, and see what he has to say about the updates. All right, so everybody, what I want to do is like we talked about in the intro, just bring up Mickey Watkins just to ask some basic questions. Mickey, thanks for coming back. I think this is like the third or fourth time you're on the show. I'm a regular and I love it. Thanks for having me on again. You are a regular. So I got three big questions for you. So first of all, what's the status of these earth node operators on the I attest net? I know there's a lot of questions going on there and people want to know. So it's a good thing you're here, we can talk about it. The second one is, what's happening with branching out to other countries? It's great that we're starting in Africa and Tanzania and you got everything worked up. But I mean, we got three billion people to help service. So how are things going with that? And then lastly, what are some of the things you're most excited about and not excited about for this year? Like what's hindering progress, that type of thing. So those are the three questions. Let's start with the first one. What's the status because I am an earth node operator. Mickey, as you know, I'm getting a little restless. So tell me what's going on here. Okay. The community is also very eager to jump on. I believe that tomorrow we, during our AMA, which you'll move invited to come to. And so as everybody else listening here, there will be an announcement from Antonio on the next onboarding process for earth node operators. But we're looking to get everybody on to test net really rapidly. Okay. As rapidly as we possibly can. Sounds good. So is it like a time frame we're looking at or just kind of like, Hey, we're going for this. Let's see what happens. It should start next week. I believe the first punches of people to come on, and then it won't stop until everybody's on. It will be phased because we learn a lot of information as we bring, as we bring people online. But it'll be quite rapidly phased as well. Perfect. Way too much longer. Okay. I'm okay with that. So you're telling me that there's doing me no earth node left behind. That's what it sounds like. No earth node will be left behind. They're operator. Okay. I'll take it. So that will answer that question. I think people will be a little pleased. At least moving the right direction. That's the big thing. But this was a question that's, uh, well, we had talked beforehand and you would said about branching off in other countries, most of the United States. So let's talk about that. How'd that happen? What's the timeline and why are we going this route? 2022 was really about fine-tuning the share in economy, making sure that we had the right equipment, testing. We tested maybe 30 or 40 different manufacturers of air nodes and different components that we put together and exploration, exploration for where world mobile could go where it wants to go. And where we wanted it was a massive road show as well as deploying and getting the Zanzibar network live and building the connections for the next couple of years. So we're very privileged to have many countries that would like us to come in and provide the the aerostat solution on this side and the on the ground network as well. But we've got to be focused. We've got to be focused because in order for the business plan to work to build one of the biggest mobile networks, we're going to have to come together. And to come together, we're going to have to make sure that the the air nodes that operate the network, the operation air node that is actually a core of the business where we reduce the capex load on any telco and allow us to grow very fast. And the OPEC side or the people that are looking after the the air nodes and operating them has to work. So in Zanzibar it's working. We do have paying subscribers on the network and WMT scan will soon be updated to to show everybody that and that's a very exciting moment for us as well. Now we've seen it working in Zanzibar. There's a few strategic countries that we want to go into first, not just because we want to jump straight to B2C, but also because there's wholesale models that can that can really grow the world mobile network super fast by bringing in revenue into the network that then the sharing economy is able to to share. And that's that's the whole model behind what we're doing, right? We're connecting the unconnected because we believe that everybody has the right to to connect to the internet, but also believe that the big MNO is also believing that's a right. They just don't know how to do it. Our model is something different and moving into other countries, moving into Asia, moving into North America and moving into other parts of the African continent is very exciting and 2023 is about cementing, making sure that we stick to our roadmap and hopefully over exceed the expectations of the community and the people that are inside this sharing economy. So USA is very exciting, but so is the Asian country and the African countries that we're operating as well. Right. Got. I mean, yeah, no, it's it's it's super exciting. I will just tell you, so when I heard about the USA, I was like, well, first of all, how hard is it to compete to get into the US market? Because I mean, we've got here, I mean, here in the US and here in Puerto Rico, we mean, you've got you've got the T-mobiles, you've got the AT&T's, you got the horizons and everything else that's out there. So like, how hard is it to competing? It's so hard. Like, I don't know why anybody would compete. It's completely oversaturated. But whilst it's oversaturated, that's in the connected areas in the underserved areas where the Swiss whole Swiss cheese problem exists. And in the rural areas where there's absolutely no coverage, then there's it's not competition. Our radios, our antennas, our equipment, our infrastructure can really go further than never before than anybody else has. And the model is really exciting. So we're not competing, competing at all. We know we're complimenting and actually just providing cellular coverage where underserved areas don't have the right amount of coverage they should have or none at all. Right. Yeah, I've got a place. So I have a sports facility on the outskirts of El Paso, Texas, El Paso County. And it's kind of spotty out there. So I can see that would be one of those areas that potentially could be serviced. I could see that that happened. You're going to be a nano donor and an operator by the sounds of it. Yeah. So apparently it's going to look something like this, right? Like we talked about going to have one of these just put out maybe a little bit more of a structure and then have people use these things for telecommunications and mobile service. That's what it sounds like to me. Yeah, it's going to look like that with a few more heads on it as well. We're going to put it up there and it's going to it's going to do exactly what it's meant to do. And then you can see how if you put enough of these in areas where there is underserved areas and people will seamlessly connect as they pass through on their phone, roaming customers and your own customers, it's it can quickly rack up adoption. Yeah, I think it'd be the big one with the roaming, especially if people have had the roaming service on. Okay. So it makes a lot of sense, especially under serve areas and of course the Asian countries. I mean, there's a lot of different places that have no service from what I understand. So I guess that will lead me to my last one. I mean, we already talked about the countries, but what are you excited about now moving in 2023? You guys done a lot of work over the last couple of years. And I think we did our first video at least a year and a half ago. So now we're already at this point where we have a working product. But what are the things that are hindering you? And what are you more excited about moving forward in 2023 and 2024? Bothering me is the is the era start, but this is just time. It's everything that we are meant to have done. We've done and I'm looking very much forward to launching that baby and seeing it fly or float. Very excited about the mobile application. We've got some really surprised features there for the community and for the wider crypto crypto environment. And I'm super, super excited of where we're going to be in June or July when the antenna, the final model is out there and we can put that up on the era start. And we've actually got the beginning of the end of the dynamic network because we'll have some nodes laid down strategically in order to function with the era start and coordinate from the ground. And we'll be able to show something that nobody's ever done before that's actually massively useful to the connecting the unconnected. And not only show it, we're not looking particularly to sell this product. We're looking to utilize it and build this network from it. So it's super exciting. And then whatever else 2023 has in store for us, we're trying to stay super focused. We've got a very big team now. We learned a lot from 2022 and we're looking forward to taking that forward. This is the year of the era start. This is the year of main net. This is the year where the sharing economy actually starts to bring revenue into the network. This is where the rubber meets the road or the telecommunications meets the phones. Okay, Mickey, sounds like a good time. So look, everybody who's watching the video, there's a link in the description. You can find out World Mobile Token, World Mobile Team and everything else that's with it. Mickey, thanks again for stopping by the show. Always good to have you. We'll bring you back when all the new stuff that's coming in. Thank you very much, Rob. See you soon.