Red Bull to Launch New MVNO in South Africa
Red Bull, the popular energy drink, has announced that it is partnering with Cell C to offer voice and broadband services in South Africa as an MVNO. Red Bull Mobile will be the second MVNO in the country, following Virgin Mobile. Cell C confirmed the news in a press statement announcing that “together with Cell [...]
Telefonica Launches Tu, the MVNO of Their Social Network Tuenti
(Prices in Euros – €) Telefonica has officially launched a new MVNO called “Tu” (You). This service is initially only offered to members of the social network Tuenti, which was acquired by Telefonica in August 2010. The tariffs for this new MVNO are as follows: Calls cost 0.0944€ per minute (0.0472€ between Tu subscribers) and [...]
Vodafone UK Enables International Top-Up Transfers For MVNOs
Vodafone UK Wholesale has announced an exclusive agreement with TransferTo, to offer international top up transfer services. TransferTo is a global airtime hub that interconnects mobile operators’ prepaid systems. This gives Vodafone UK MVNO customers the ability to transfer value from a prepaid or a postpaid account in the UK to an international prepaid phone. [...]
KPN Shuts Down Five MVNOs Targeting Immigrants in Spain
The Dutch operator, which has several MVNOs in the country, with Simyo and Blau being the most popular, has shut down five of them. These operators were mainly targeting foreigners, a very competitive market in the Country. The five MVNOS affected by this decision are Hablafacil, Hong Da Mobile, Celular Line Movil, Talkout and MundiMovil. [...]
Brazilian Regulator Anatel Approves Creation of New MVNOs
Agencia Nacional de Telecomunicacoes (Anatel), Brazil’s telecoms regulator, has approved a new regulation designed to facilitate the introduction of new mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) in the country. Under the new regulation, companies such as banks and retailers will be allowed to set up MVNO operations. Companies like Pao de Acucar, Casas Bahia, Carrefour and [...]
‘Hi’ Netherlands cuts prices and increases speeds for mobile data plans
(Prices in Euros €) The Dutch mobile services provider HI will be introducing new mobile broadband offers starting in November. The new offers aimed at laptop and tablet users will offer increased speeds and lower prices. Additionally, subscribers will no longer see their speed cut after exceeding the bundle amount, and instead will pay the [...]
“Lycamobile World” Launches On-Net Service in the UK
(Prices in GBP £ and Euros €) Lycamobile has enabled its customers to call across Europe for half a penny. The MVNO has launched its international on-net service, “Lycamobile World”, which it said will lower European costs for 6M customers in each of its eight markets, to around £0.005/minute. Subscribers will pay a one time [...]
Eircom Launches New ‘eMobile’ Brand in Ireland
Ireland’s largest operator, Eircom, has launched a second mobile brand, “eMobile”, which will operate in parallel with its existing mobile subsidiary, Meteor; Meteor currently has about 1M customers. This new mobile subsidiary will offer prepaid and postpaid plans, and promises “to provide simple, straightforward offers”. The launch will be backed by an extensive 12-week marketing [...]
Wal-Mart & T-Mobile launch Family Mobile MVNO
(Prices in USD $) The US retail giant Wal-Mart has announced that it plans to launch a branded MVNO with support from T-Mobile USA, which will be branded under the Wal-Mart Family Mobile brand. The MVNO service is set to go-live on the 19th of September and will consist of a $45 family plan with [...]