Today is the first day customers in Colombia and Venezuela can get their hands on Firefox OS-based devices via the Telefonica-owned Movistar network.
In Colombia, both devices are now available priced at COP 199,900 (~$105) on prepay or COP 99,900 on a 12 month contract with a COP 39,900 (~$21) per month commitment.
Cool, hopefully, the Firefox phone would come to Canada, US, and other countries around the world to give people more choices for Smartphone OS instead of just Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and Blackberry.
I agree they are mainly using these places as Beta test, and probably because more people in Columbia and Venezuela who don't own any type of wireless device like a cell phone or tablet, so they are maybe more likely to buy a phone with the Firefox brand which is trusted around the world compared to Internet Explorer/Windows Phone, and Google Chrome/Android which maybe spying on users based on reports on the News about Edward Snowden's Prism leaks.
I'm not sure if Venezuela even have many Google Android, and other American cell phone brands since Venezuela are not good friends with the US because its former leader Hugo Chavez was believed to be killed by a Cancer Death Ray from the US.
