The next generation of MVNOs shakes things up
Not so long ago, MVNOs were all the rage. Everyone from 7-Eleven and Circle-K convenience stores to Disney and ESPN jumped on the bandwagon along with dozens of other brands both big and small. Many of...
View ArticleGoogle goes boldly – virtually
There has been speculation recently that Google is already a communications provider, competing for the broadband accounts of a great swathe of customers in the US. It is also playing a game of chess...
View ArticleSky an MVNO – is that the limit?
Announcements are coming thick and fast in the UK. First Sky said it was partnering with O2 to broaden its already wide range of services. This is due to be launched in the Spring of 2016. Now Carphone...
View ArticleGoogle MVNO rumours – what’s likely and what’s not
For the last couple of weeks, speculation has been rife that Google is working on an MVNO-type service offering, probably based on both T-Mobile US and Sprint’s networks, plus also incorporating a...
View ArticleGoogle MVNO soon
US search giant Google could launch its long anticipated MVNO as early as today, according to a WSJ report. An additional detail teased in the report is that Google is expected to offer data on a...
View ArticleFee Fi Foe…Here comes Google’s MVNO
MVNO – As expected, Google announced today that it’s getting into the consumer wireless business with a new service called “Fi.” The prices are attractive. In general, users will pay $20 per month for...
View ArticleBanks lining up for telecoms race in South Africa
While South Africa’s mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) scene has been stifled by market dynamics since the dawn of the market some 20 years ago, movement in the space has started to heat up and...
View ArticleApple’s MVNO – are operators being outflanked?
There are new reports of Apple planning an MVNO. Apple has been planning an MVNO for almost a decade. Apple has no plans to launch its MVNO immediately. The company is looking at a five-year launch...
View ArticleApple denies MVNO rumours
FRANKFURT/PARIS (Reuters) – Apple Inc, the world’s most profitable mobile phone maker, has denied working on a plan to market communications services directly to consumers and bypass the telecom...
View ArticleM&As can swing a number of ways
AT&T is acquiring DirectTV. BT acquired EE that was sold by Orange and T-Mobile. Telefonica sold O2 to Hutchison and its owner Li Ka-shing can well sell all telecom assets when the price is right....
View ArticleXiaomi cracks open MVNO business in China
BEIJING (Reuters) – Xiaomi Inc, China’s leading smartphone maker, announced on Tuesday two prepaid wireless plans to mark its debut as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) competing against China’s...
View ArticleThe IoT and the new type of MVNO
We’ve heard a lot about the potential of IoT and how it will fill the telecoms industry’s coffers with much-needed new revenue. But, like many promising ideas, it is taking far longer for IoT revenues...
View ArticleIn customer service, no-one can hear you scream
It seems extraordinary, in this day and age, that we still cannot get customer service right. Sure, we make the noises, get our CEOs to make much of customer service during earnings calls and pump out...
View ArticleWill an e-SIM in the Apple cart upset operators?
In the middle of last year there was a lot of noise about the e-SIM. Most of this noise centred around the growing consensus that an e-SIM was an optimum way to connect the huge number of ‘things’...
View ArticleXiaomi cracks open MVNO business in China
BEIJING (Reuters) – Xiaomi Inc, China’s leading smartphone maker, announced on Tuesday two prepaid wireless plans to mark its debut as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) competing against China’s...
View ArticleThe IoT and the new type of MVNO
We’ve heard a lot about the potential of IoT and how it will fill the telecoms industry’s coffers with much-needed new revenue. But, like many promising ideas, it is taking far longer for IoT revenues...
View ArticleIn customer service, no-one can hear you scream
It seems extraordinary, in this day and age, that we still cannot get customer service right. Sure, we make the noises, get our CEOs to make much of customer service during earnings calls and pump out...
View ArticleWill an e-SIM in the Apple cart upset operators?
In the middle of last year there was a lot of noise about the e-SIM. Most of this noise centred around the growing consensus that an e-SIM was an optimum way to connect the huge number of ‘things’...
View ArticleNews highlights – 30 August
News highlights – 30 August Nokia revival boss leaves company HELSINKI (Reuters) – The head of the Nokia division aiming to bring the brand’s mobile phones back to market is leaving after two years in...
View ArticleWho wants to be an MVNO? The evolution of the wholesale market
MVNOs – Mobile Virtual Network Operators – have no physical networks, lease wireless capacity from existing mobile service providers and, though they resell services under their own brand name, are...
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