About FreeHeadset.org

In December 2003, while driving home, my wife and I witnessed a horrible accident. A man, how was holding his cell phone while driving, ran through a red light and smashed into the vehicle right in front of us..

After helping at the scene, trying to free the victims from the wreckage and coordinating emergency crews to the scene, we where pulled away by police for questioning. We later learned that both drivers were seriously injured. The passenger, a mother, in the victim's vehicle had died. Her daughter, a yound girl who was seated in the back, survived..

This accident troubled me for weeks. Traffic accidents happen, but chances are this one could have been avoided with a simple headset..

Like so many others, I had always opted to avoid purchasing the optional $30+ hands-free headset each time I bought a new cell phone. It had finally occurred to me that there are millions of people out there driving around without headsets. Something had to be done..

After hundreds of phone calls and emails, I was able to negotiate special arrangements with manufacturers. In January 2004 we launched FreeHeadset.org. Orders started trickling in but most people remain suspect of our offer.. Some people even assumed that we were a scam without even calling us or ordering a headset. That was annoying to say the least..

A few months into the program we received a call from the New York Times. Wow!! They wanted to run a story on our program! A few weeks later, the story ran and we received, literally, a ton of orders. We're talking ten's of thousands.

Today, several years (and 300,000+ orders) later, we're still shipping thousands of headsets each month!

I would personally like to thank the media organizations who have helped spread the word about our program. A special thanks to CBS, NBC, The New York Times, MSNBC and Yahoo for their extra efforts to spread the word about our program.

- Matt