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It seems that Orange not being content with its deal with Lyca Mobile, has just signed another ethnic MVNO to its collection GlobalCell. GlobalCell will be aiming their SIM only services to migrants from countries such as Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania and Russia, and will also offer customer service in...
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What a trooper. Disney Mobile, the defunct MVNO that closed-up shop in the US after less-than-stellar sales, is up and at it again. After falling off the US-horse, Disney Mobile is trying again in the Japanese market - as we expected . This time around, the tenacious MVNO has teamed up with Softbank...
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Filed under: Softbank, Mobile, Uncategorized, disney, Sharp, mvno, disney mobile, japan, Announcements, Devices, Services, Partnerships
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Following in the footsteps of larger MVNOs before it, XE Mobile has just announced that it will be turning off its AT&T-leased network on December 31. XE Mobile offered college students cheap prepaid plans on cheap GSM phones, but apparently didn’t get enough cash-strapped college-students...
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If you had to pick one mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) whose success has spawned dozens of copycats (most of them failures), then you have to go with Virgin Mobile USA. By focusing on the younger demographic, the company has snagged about 4.83 million customers. A joint venture of Sprint (S) and...
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So it looks like Disney isn’t wiping its hands of the mobile space altogether. The Walt Disney Internet Group has just launched a free, ad-supported, mobile-optimized (WAP portal) for Disney website-goers on the go. The site will integrate with Disney activities on Disney.com, Disney.com XD, and...
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The MVNO business is tough, there’s no doubt about that. These days, it seems that most MVNO startups out there are either folding up or barely staying afloat , and it seems Disney’s own wireless venture, Disney Mobile, is in that same boat. According to Silicon Alley Insider , Disney CFO...
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Filed under: Mobile, carrier, disney, mvno, Announcements, wireless, Services, market, quit, leaving, exit, quitting
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Peter Adderton, former CEO of defunct MVNO Amp’d Mobile is reportedly making plans to jump ship and catch a ride on Clearwire . Although Adderton denies such rumors, MocoNews has reliable sources saying that the once-CEO and his executive content team (Amp’d Live) are making preparations...
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The New York Times has a piece on mobile video/TV and is reporting that ESPN is betting big on their mobile plans. Despite the company's failed MVNO, ESPN is planning to patent a system that will analyze the web-users' viewing habits to determine what content would best serve ESPN's mobile...
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Is Amp’d Mobile gearing up for a change of the guard? Valleywag prints a rumor that the CEO and founder of the high-spending youth-oriented MVNO, Peter Adderton, has left the company. We heard this rumor a few weeks ago and asked Amp’d’s PR team directly if Adderton had left the company...
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Does Qualcomm have a sick business idea on its hands? We’re not sure yet, but check this out. Wireless Week has a story about Qualcomm and ‘unnamed partners’ building a health-based MVNO called LifeComm that is expected to launch in the second half of 2008. The wireless service will...
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Venture capital has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into companies building equipment to enable FMC (fixed-to-mobile convergence) products and services. To date, the cellular operator market opportunity has languished but the tide may be changing if the MVNOs take advantage of the technology....
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Trying to create an upstart hipster cell phone company is utterly expensive. Peter Adderton and Sky Dayton, the CEOs of MVNOs Amp’d Mobile and Helio, know this all too well by now. Amp’d is adding another $107 million in funding, according to PEHub and VentureWire, which will bring the company’s...