Tethys Mobile, formerly Virgin Mobile South Africa, has been in business rescue since September 2020
Huge Group will acquire the remaining assets belonging to Tethys Mobile, formerly Virgin Mobile South Africa. The telco was the country’s first mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), but it hit tough...
June greetings from the 49th state, home to some pretty noisy glaciers (Aialik Glacier pictured). We have had a terrific ten days touring many of the TelAlaska properties and learning more about broadband deployment challenges. TelAlaska has an amazing team working every day to improve...
Comcast activated the first 5G radios during the first quarter
Comcast expects to launch an employee field test of 5G in June, the company’s president and CEO Brian Roberts said during a conference call with investors.
The executive also noted that Comcast had lit the first...
NTT-owned IoT MVNO-enabler Transatel has introduced a private LTE/5G extension for its IoT roaming SIM to enable connected devices to switch between public and private cellular networks. It described the new feature as “critical given the massive adoptions of private 5G in factories and...
Dish Network expects to launch 5G wireless services in Las Vegas in a beta phase during the fourth quarter of the year, the company’s Chairman Charlie Ergen said during a conference call with investors. Â
The executive said that the 5G network in Las Vegas...
Kajeet: Extending connected healthcare into homes without the internet is impossible
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Kajeet is perhaps best known as a mobile virtual network operator and MVNO enabler. The company was founded on a core mission of...
Why is the third largest cable TV company, Altice USA, changing the brand name of their wireless service from Altice Mobile to Optimum Mobile? Is it to stay in-sync with Xfinity Mobile and Spectrum Mobile? If so, why didn’t they start with that...
The $5 billion, 10-year deal involves an MVNO arrangement, AT&T providing 5G transport for Dish, and more
Dish Network and AT&T recently struck a $5 billion deal to move Dish's wireless customer traffic — including customers of its Boost Mobile, Ting Mobile and Republic Wireless...
The U.K.’s competition authority dismissed concerns that a merger of mobile operator O2 and fixed operator Virgin Media would have negative implications on wholesale services, provisionally clearing the proposed deal without conditions.
In a statement, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said its investigation concluded...
Private cellular specialist Citymesh has struck a deal with Proximus to offer mobile and fixed telecom services on the Proximus network in Belgium, running alongside localised cellular services in its own spectrum.Â
The agreement on mobile services extends to a wholesale-based mobile virtual network operator...
Rumor is Cox, the cable television company, may be getting ready to re-enter the wireless marketplace. Let’s take a look at whether they will, and if they do, when and what kind of impact it will have on their company and for the wireless...
The new mobile service was created to help connect those living in rural areas, according to Walmart Mexico
Walmart revealed this week that its Mexican unit — known as Walmex — has launched a mobile phone service available throughout the country. The service, called "Bodega...
Liberty Global and Telefonica have reached an agreement to merge their U.K. operations in a 50-50 joint venture.
This move brings together the country's largest mobile operator, O2, with cable operator Virgin Media and its MVNO Virgin Mobile.
The combined subscriber base of the two companies,...
New mid-band spectrum allows operators to add capacities, enterprise to invest in private networks
A consummate theme of telecom discussions is the desperate need for additional spectrum dedicated to mobile services; in the context of 5G, that refrain tends to focus on mid-band spectrum, which...
Tesco Mobile has officially launched its 5G network in 24 towns and cities across the U.K., using infrastructure from mobile operator O2.
Some of the cities in which the company is already offering its 5G service includes Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool,...
Boost Mobile founder Peter Adderton has put in an offer to buy the mobile virtual network operator back from the New T-Mobile, which must divest Boost and Sprint's other prepaid brands as part of required conditions to merge T-Mobile US with Sprint. However, Dish...
U.K. company Virgin Media has signed a five-year deal with Vodafone UK to provide mobile services, including 5G, to more than three million mobile customers, the former said in a release.
Virgin Media’s current MVNO agreement with BT Enterprise, which has been in place since...
While mobile virtual network operators may appear to be back in fashion, none of them are significant players among US wireless carriers. The largest of what are commonly—but incorrectly—called MVNOs, including Boost and Metro in the US, have long since ceased to be MVNOs,...
Verizon focused on execution as Sprint/T-Mo merger looms, DISH preps entry and Altice Mobile goes live
Cable companies entering the wireless market via mobile virtual network operator arrangements and the looming mega-merger of Sprint and T-Mobile US, along with implications that deal has for DISH's...
Greetings from Charlotte, North Carolina (picture is, from left, Frank Cairon, formerly of Verizon Wireless and Ryan Barker, currently with Verizon Wireless enjoying some good Mexican food on Friday in the Queen City with yours truly).Â
 This week’s TSB examines the short-term dynamics that...
First, Comcast entered the world of wireless a few years ago with Xfinity Mobile. Then, a year later Charter entered with Spectrum Mobile. Since that time, we have been waiting for Altice to enter and that’s just what they did recently with Altice Mobile....
Consumers love to complain about their wireless phone service, but when you look at the data, it tells a different story. Analytics for customer satisfaction show which factors matter most to consumers and which have less of an impact (price, for example, is not...
