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Nebula Wireless Aims To Pair Premium Services With Affordable Pricing
Nebula Wireless is set to formally launch by early January 2023 with plans starting at $20/month. Due to contractual agreements, the upcoming MVNO cannot publicly name which wireless provider(s) it will use to power its network. However, the Nebula Wireless website says that it will operate on the largest mid-band/low-band
Read MoreMVNOs Need To Look At New Products & Platforms To Keep Up With The Big Guys
I had a great week of listening and learning the past week. First, I had the opportunity to meet in New York City with Dennis Bauer, the co-founder of San Francisco based GIGs. GIGs is a “global operator in your pocket, without the hassle,” and is an embeddable, API-first operator
Read MoreSimple Mobile Still Number One In 3Q22 Wave7 Research Multi-Carrier Prepaid Dealer Survey
Once again, Simple Mobile has stolen the top spot in Wave7 Research’s quarterly independent multi-carrier dealer survey. To date, Simple has commanded the lead every quarter in all of the 31 quarterly surveys conducted by the research firm. According to one California dealer in the survey, Simple comprised more than
Read MoreIt’s The 4th Quarter….. Are MVNOs Ready?
I looked at the calendar today and was astonished to see that tomorrow is October 1st and the beginning of the fourth quarter. It seems like only a few weeks ago that we were planning for January’s Consumer Electronics Show, prepaid sales for Tax Time, and adjusting our plans based
Read MoreMVNO Nation On The Digitalization of MVNOs!
Digitization is the process of converting information into a digital format. The result is the representation of an object, sound, image, document or signal obtained by generating a series of numbers that describe a discreet set of points or samples (Wikipedia). My friends at MVNO Nation (www.MVNOnation.com) over in the
Read MoreHow Pre-Owned Phones Can Benefit You And Your MVNO Customers
This past May, I wrote about why consumers purchase certain handsets to go along with their wireless service plan. I received quite a few comments, one of the main areas being the risks or benefits of buying a used phone. Call them pre-owned, used, renewed, refurbished, certified or a half
Read MoreAn Interview With Consumer Cellular’s CMO, Craig Lister
Consumer Cellular has been one of the greatest success stories in the MVNO space. Founded in 1995 in Portland, Oregon, Consumer Cellular helped to pioneer providing cellular service to the 50-plus-year-old demographic and now boasts over 4 million customers! The company is known for providing a superb customer experience. They
Read MoreBig Cable Hits 9 Million Wireless Subs, What’s The Key To Their Success & Can Your MVNO Compete?
The lazy, hazy and in most spots, non-rainy days of summer have not cooled off wireless sales. With today being August 5th, is it really only 31 days until Labor Day? If you’ve been vacationing, here’s what’s going on: Charter Communications (Spectrum Mobile) and Comcast (Xfinity) had tremendous Q2, 2022
Read MoreSimple Mobile Wins 2Q22 Wave7 Research Wireless Dealer Survey
Simple Mobile has once again won Wave7 Research’s quarterly independent multi-carrier prepaid dealer survey. Survey results showed it to be the number one selling prepaid brand in the second quarter of 2022. This is the 30th straight time that Simple Mobile has finished atop the survey, which also corresponds to
Read MoreMVNO Nation is Taking Over the World!
It seems that we in the United States are not the only ones with challenges and opportunities with regard to MVNOs. I was recently introduced to a wonderful new organization, MNVO Nation, in London and attended (virtually) two of their latest events that brought together leaders from the United Kingdom,
Read MoreShould Your MVNO Use A Consultant?
Most small business owners think they know everything, I know I did. Okay, without this being a history lesson, I have been in the wireless mobility, communications, telecom, cellular or call it whatever you want industry for thirty-one (31+) years. When some people criticize younger people for walking around with
Read MoreWhat Are These Fees On My Phone Bill And Why Do They Keep Going Up?
Although still struggling with gas pricing, food costs skyrocketing, rents going up and everything else tied into our current inflation issues as well as the pundits talking about a possible recession, most people thought they had figured out their monthly telecom costs. With unlimited talk, text, and data, phone bills
Read MoreIt’s All About the Phones, Or Is It? What Are the Reasons For Purchasing A Specific Model?
If you’re reading this on your mobile phone, please stop and ask yourself, “why did I buy this particular model?” Is it an Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Google, TCL, OnePlus, or a lesser-known brand that most of the non-exclusive dealers sell? Is it new? Refurbished? Did you get device protection, or
Read MoreWhile MVNOs Were Sleeping, Cable Companies Added 8.5m Wireless Subs
For most of us in the wireless business, it is common knowledge that “the first handheld cellular phone call was made on April 3, 1973, by Motorola engineer Martin Cooper from Sixth Avenue in New York while walking between 53rd and 54th streets. Cooper hoisted the 2 1/2-pound prototype to his ear
Read MoreThe Value Of Free, Is It Really Free Phones, And Free Service?
What value can you assign to “Free?” This debate has been going on for years and has now found its way into the wireless connectivity world. The old adage that “if something seems too good to be true, it probably is” has steered most intelligent people away from getting something
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