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Lightyear has just announced a five-year agreement with Sprint wherein it will provide service as an MVNO, or mobile virtual network operator. The upside for Lightyear is that it will have Sprint’s reliable network backing it, and access to a lot of the handsets that Sprint has to offer. The downside is that it will…
Wal-Mart announced today that it is stepping forward in the wireless business and is going to offer cellular service branded with the Wal-Mart name. The service will run on T-Mobile’s network in the US and will be available in 2,500 Wal-Mart stores nationwide starting September 20th. As expected from a discount retail chain, the Family…
Orange UK has signed a new MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) partner, called C Mobile, according to Mobile Marketing Magazine – nothing out of the ordinary there you might think, other than they are apparently ‘environmentally-focused’… What does that mean? Well they are ethically accredited with ‘The Ethical Company Organisation’, and they will give consumers an…
Orange has signed three new MVNOs, according to cellular-news.com, – Unicom, Catalyst, and Axis Telecom. All of these have been enabled by an MNVO aggregator – a company going by the name of Transatel. Interestingly, the company already had give MVNO agreements in place. We don’t have too much more detail, on each MNVO, save for the…
giffgaff, a new MVNO in the UK, has launched today, and announced details on its pricing structure, matching the cheapest networks on the market and cheaper than the top four mobile networks. The giffgaff pricing structure reflects good value in a competitive market with 8p per minute for voice calls and 4p for text to…
A new mobile virtual network operator named Simple Mobile has launched today, making some tall claims about how they’re going to change the U.S. wireless market. Here’s the pitch; you can judge for yourself: Today the chaotic wireless industry just got … Simple. Executive leaders from some of the nation’s largest wireless mega giants have…
3G.co.uk is reporting that there is a new MVNA (Mobile Virtual Network Aggregator) in the UK market, riding on top of the 3UK network. Its name: x-Mobility Limited. x-Mobility is saying that they can get MVNOs up and running on an Operator much quicker than going direct to the Operator itself – quite a statement,…
And we thought the MVNO-fad was done and over with. A new quasi-MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) is set to start offering its no-contract, unlimited rate plans in the US, using AT&T’s network as its surrogate communications backbone. Unified Technologies Group has announced that they will be offering all-you-can-eat wireless service under the “Zer01” carrier…
Lycamobile, the international mobile telecoms provider, is offering a special call tariff for Diwali. In the spirit of the festival of lights, the cut-price call rates are aimed at illuminating the lives of loved ones and bringing friends and families closer together. From today until the 2nd November, all rates to landlines in India and…
Orange UK has enabled a new MVNO to run on it’s network – called Globalcell, the service is targeted at Eastern Europeans, who are living and working in the UK. The service offers customers a SIM-only pre-paid deal, with all customer interaction being delivered in native languages, such as Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, Slovak (and…