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M-PESA, first launched by the Kenyan mobile network operator Safaricom, has since expanded mobile money services into other developing nations.
Content providers share the earnings with the mobile network operator, making these services an attractive--and booming--new revenue stream for both industries.
In the UK, mobile network operator Orange launched Quick Tap with Barclaycard last May, which was quickly followed by Google Wallet along with MasterCard.
Here in Britain, the mobile network operator O2, owned by Telefonica, is letting customers opt in to receive discounts and offers from businesses as they walk near one of their outlets.
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The Rest of the World segment includes Ortel Mobile - virtual network operator offering mobile services though its own brand and partners.
The firm is the 25th mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) signed by EE.
The idea of forming a super MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) was floated for the first time a week ago.
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The success of Virgin Mobile in the U.K. and Amp'd Mobile in the U.S. prove the so-called mobile virtual network operator business model.
On April 1st Vodacom, a large South African telecoms firm, proudly announced a five-year deal to manage Econet Wireless Nigeria, the west African country's second-largest mobile-network operator.
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It has been set up by UAP Insurance of Kenya, Safaricom, Kenya's biggest mobile-network operator, and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, part of a big Swiss agribusiness group.
The mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) does not own any infrastructure, but buys airtime, data, and services in bulk from physical networks, and then packages these up for their users.
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For more than a year, company execs have been discussing becoming a "mobile virtual network operator, " or MVNO, a model under which a company skips the expensive process of building a national phone network, instead signing on with an existing provider and rebranding its service.
The difference between this rumored deal with Sprint and that of a normal MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) would be the possible integration of cellphones with VOIP service, something that the traditional phone companies are scared to death of, but integrates perfectly with the current VOIP ambitions of the cable companies.
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We thought we'd come and gone on the whole Apple-does-an-MVNO rumor thing that was buzzing around just prior to the ROKR E1's launch last September, but with Apple's enigmatic "Mobile Me" trademark filing hitting the the wires today, speculation is already re-cropping up that Apple's still working behind the scenes to pound out their own mobile virtual network operator.
But part of the drag on margins was due to InPhonic's struggling Liberty Wireless business, a mobile virtual-network operator that InPhonic has now sold.
At Cingular Wireless, a national mobile operator, network call traffic surged to 400 percent of its normal level from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Children were sent home from schools, and the explosion temporarily knocked out one mobile operator's network.
For China Mobile is by far the largest network operator in the country with 70% of the subscriber base.
T-Mobile U.S. was the only network operator to offer the phone at a discounted price with the typical required two-year contract.
Wavemetrix, for example, carried out a study for a European mobile operator that was aware that its network was less reliable than those of its rivals.
When one of their users signs up to an 12-month contract with a network operator like Vodafone or T-Mobile , it's unlikely they will be shopping around for another phone for that time period.
The second releases T-Mobile from the potential tyranny that subsidies place on a network operator.
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"Whilst we are significantly expanding our network, we accept the fact that no mobile operator can have total blanket coverage, which is why we have this policy in place, " said a 3 spokesman.
Greek companies have acquired Albania's fast-growing mobile-phone operator and a licence to set up a second cellular network.
The mobile operator is also set to spend heavily to upgrade and expand its network, which investors expect will constrict short-term profits.
Last year, MetroPCS became the first U.S. mobile operator to offer RCS 5.0 services on a 4G LTE network under the joyn brand and has now joined leading global operators in receiving provisional GSMA joyn accreditation.
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In December, USAID announced a partnership with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and leading cellular network operator Millicom International S.A. to launch an innovative project to bring mobile financial services to women entrepreneurs throughout Tanzania, Rwanda and Ghana.
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