Mobile Virtual Network Operator
Garanti Bank and Avea start a new period in payment systems with their NFC technology work.
May 14th
Garanti Bank, which is the leading name of payment systems sector in Turkey, and Avea, which is the GSM operator that makes its subscribers talk most in Turkey, effectuate NFC – Near Field Communication technology in all mobile phones for the first time in Turkey and the world. The new SIM cards having NFC technology [...]
Telefonia. Nel 2010 il gruppo potrebbe diventare operatore mobile virtuale – Fs Telco il nome della nuova controllata
Dec 1st
Il Sole 24 Ore
Le ferrovie dello Stato accelerano sui servizi di telefonia: un mercato solo apparentemente distante dal core business dei trasporti, visti i network in fibra e in rame che corrono per migliaia di chilometri sul territorio nazionale, detenuti proprio dalle Fs.
Occhi puntati, quindi, sulla banda larga mobile per collegarsi a internet dal treno, [...]
(It) Telefonia, è l’ ora del virtuale
Nov 17th
Da Poste a Coop: arrivano gli operatori con tariffe scontate Operatori telefonici virtuali alla conquista dell’ Italia.
Negli ultimi anni sono spuntati come funghi decine di «Mvno» ( mobile virtual network operator), operatori che appoggiandosi alle infrastrutture di rete dei quattro big della telefonia mobile italiana (Tim, Vodafone, Wind e Tre) sono in grado di offrire [...]
Virgin Mobile expands prepaid mobile broadband offerings
Nov 15th
Virgin Mobile USA said it has expanded its prepaid mobile broadband service into more retail locations. As of Dec. 1, Virgin Mobile said its Broadband2Go, which uses Sprint’s EV-DO Rev. A network, will be available at Best Buy Mobile, RadioShack stores, Sam’s Club kiosks via RadioShack, Walmart.com and Target.com.
The MVNO, which is in the process [...]
MVNO market to double in four years, driven by emerging markets
Sep 25th
At present, MVNOs are predominantly a feature of well-developed telecom markets – most notably in Western Europe, North America and a small number of other countries. While MVNOs have succeeded in growing their share of these mature markets, the growth trend is obscured when looking at the global picture. Worldwide the statistics show that the [...]
BYU-Idaho students spend, spend, spend with their NFC phones
Sep 16th
Students taking part in a new trial of micro-SD based NFC payments at Brigham Young University in Idaho have already used their phones to buy everything from candy bars to $1,600 laptops.
BRIGHAM YOUNG: One hundred students are using RFinity’s NFC payments solution in Rexburg, Idaho
Initial feedback from the newly launched NFC payments trial at BYU-Idaho, [...]
Broadband, smartphones drive business mobile market growth
Aug 31st
Australian businesses are seemingly brushing aside the economic woes of the current downturn and increasingly spending money on mobile services – particularly mobile broadband and smartphones – with total spending in the market predicted to grow to $6.5 billion by the end of this year.
Research group, Telsyte, said today spending on mobile services by businesses [...]
mvno — on the go
Aug 31st
AT&T is in talks with major telecom carriers in India to offer MVNO services to enterprise customers. Typically, Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) use a partner’s backbone to offer services. V.S. Gopinath, Chairman and CEO of AT&T Global Network Services India, told eWorld, “We would be very interested anywhere in the world to pursue MVNO [...]
Vodafone 3G now reaches 94 percent of Australians
Aug 30th
Vodafone has completed the planned upgrade to its network, expanding 3G coverage to 94 percent of the population from 80 percent and adding 2G EDGE services and upgrading 2G coverage in the extended 3G coverage area.
All the new 3G coverage is at 900MHz. Vodafone in May announced completion of the upgrade from 63 percent 3G [...]
Lycamobile launches MVNO in Italy
Jun 25th
International mobile operator Lycamobile has launched as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in Italy, offering services across 3 Italia’s network infrastructure. Italy is the eighth country in which Lycamobile has launched its pre-paid SIM business, following similar launches in the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and the UK. Subaskaran Allirajah, chairman of Lycamobile [...]
