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LG Uplus ends 2023 with over 7 million 5G subscribers

LG Uplus said it added 980,000 5G subscribers during 2023 Korean operator LG Uplus ended the fourth quarter of 2023 with 7.04 million 5G subscribers, up 16.2% year-on-year, according to the company’s latest earnings statement. The telco added a total of 980,000 5G subscribers during 2023,...

Virgin Media O2, Tesco renew Tesco Mobile JV

Tesco Mobile is a joint venture owned equally by the Tesco Group and Virgin Media O2 U.K. carrier Virgin Media O2 and Tesco, owners of Tesco Mobile, have signed a 10-year renewal of their existing joint venture, the former said in a release. Tesco Mobile is...

Local MNOs vs global MVNOs in smart metering – legacy telcos rule, says Kamstrup

An interesting angle came up last week in a webinar about smart metering, hosted by eSIM specialist Kigen, where Danish meter maker Kamstrup responded to a question about how utility companies go about choosing connectivity technologies and connectivity providers by declaring cellular as the...

Thailand seeks to create four new MVNOs by 2026

The government of Thailand said the proposed MVNO regulations stipulate that the existing operators can hold a share of the new regional MVNOs The chairman of Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), Sarana Boonbaichaiyapruck, has outlined a plan to create more mobile virtual network...

O2 Telefónica hands Transatel MVNO deal in Germany, targeting automotive and industrial IoT

NTT-owned IoT MVNO-enabler Transatel has signed a wholesale deal with O2 Telefónica in Germany to offer IoT coverage and applications for the automotive sector and wider industrial market. The arrangement gives the France-based firm, offering local MVNO and MVNE services in Europe for two...

Kagan: Spectrum Mobile has an edge over Xfinity Mobile in 5G wireless

Spectrum Mobile from Charter costs less and offers a more reliable connection to wireless data service compared to Xfinity Mobile from Comcast. The problem is these two companies do not compete. That means there is zero competitive pressure to keep all competitors at their...

Wireless Logic makes 10th acquisition in two years with deal for US MVNO Webbing

Highly-acquisitive IoT connectivity provider Wireless Logic has snapped up US-headquartered virtual network operator (MVNO) Webbing for an undisclosed fee. The deal, its 10th in just a couple of years, extends the UK firm’s presence in the Asian and North American markets, and also gives...

Soracom teams with Quectel, Murata to bring Kigen/Sony iSIM modules to market

Japan-based IoT connectivity provider Soracom, busily making alliances across the whole IoT industry, has expanded its roster of integrated SIM (iSIM) supply partners with IoT module makers Quectel and Murata. Soracom has been working already with chipset provider Sony Semiconductor Israel (Sony) and SIM...

Cellular IoT revenues jump 24% – to 2% of total cellular revenues (but boom-time still beckons)

Global revenues from cellular IoT networks increased 24 percent to reach €10.8 billion in 2022, calculates analyst firm Berg Insight. However they account for just two percent of total mobile revenues among the largest operator groups, it said, and are in general decline, with...

An MVNO killer? An MNO land-grab? Verizon intros global IoT eSIM platform

An IoT MVNO killer? It sure sounds like it, almost – if the whole rest of the global operator market could just pick it up. But no, says the global enterprise arm of US operator Verizon; IoT-geared MVNOs will plug into its new global...

Module maker Blues taps 1NCE for global IoT roaming

US IoT developer Blues (Blues Wireless) has signed with Germany-based virtual IoT operator (MVNO) 1NCE to more than double its roaming access to national mobile networks around the world. The partnership has been presented by the pair as one between “the only companies offering...

Private 5G for IoT – what apps, if any, will bring 5G out of the long shadow of LTE? (part 2)

Note this article is continued from a previous post, under the header: Private 5G for IoT – a year to get real, two to get really-real, six to be ‘seamless’. To read the previous entry, go here.; to watch the original webinar discussion on...

Private 5G – the bigger view | “… the future will be hybrid” (part 2)

Note, this article, a direct transcript of a conversation with Kathiravan Kandasamy, vice president of product management at US-based carrier services company Syniverse, continues from a previous entry, which can be found here. … You mentioned also that, in your experience with customers, that the private...

Private 5G – the bigger view | “Yes, that is the dream, but…” (part 1)

So, is the correct way to look at this, then, that the private 5G market, when it talks about private 5G, is obsessed with a future where Volkswagen is animating its production lines using Release 18-level URLLC 5G networks? But that the wider enterprise...

The role of private 5G in telco transformation (five conclusions)

A session at RCR Live in London last month considered the role of new private cellular networks as a platform for industrial transformation, and as part of the broader event topic of telco transformation. It brought together private 5G specialists from UK-based mobile network...

Soracom targets oil and gas, agriculture, supply chain with US-wide IoT data service

Soracom has introduced a new multi-carrier IoT service to cover the US market, piggybacking on the cellular networks of AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. The new data plan, called US-MAX, offers the “largest IoT coverage” in the US, plus automated-roaming between the three networks for...

BT offers per-usage national IoT roaming in the UK, targets logistics sector

UK telecoms operator BT is offering a “new” national roaming service for IoT SIMs on its EE mobile network, plus on infrastructure managed by UK telco rivals and rented by partner MVNOs “where required”. The service will connect to traditional higher-powered M2M-style cellular 2G,...

IoT tracking in the supply chain (pt2) – how cellular IoT solved the global edge

Note, this article follows directly from a previous post (January 24) – about why logistics is the hardest industry of all for the IoT market to crack; both are taken from a new editorial report on the state of IoT in the supply chain...

T-Mobile US rumored to be in acquisition talks with Mint Mobile

Mint Mobile is an MVNO that operates on T-Mobile US' network According to recent Bloomberg reports, T-Mobile US is considering purchasing mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Mint Mobile. Mint does not run its own network; instead, it operates on T-Mobile US' network, which would likely...

MNOs vs MVNOS – who is top of mind for enterprise IoT connectivity? (Reader Forum)

Earlier this year, Transforma Insights undertook a survey of 1,100+ enterprises in the US and Europe, asking about their buying behaviour and vendor preferences cellular IoT connectivity. As part of that survey, we asked respondents which connectivity providers they were aware of, which they...

Transatel on the “ultimate” public/private 5G mashup for Industry 4.0 (an MVNO story)

France-based virtual operator Transatel, busily offering somehow-unfashionable local MVNO and MVNE services in Europe for two decades already, has a second (actually, third and fourth) life, suddenly, in the global IoT game – which has become even racier in recent years with its acquisition...

Canada issues new rules to foster competition via MVNOs

The country's telecom regulator said that the rates for MVNO access in Canada are to be commercially negotiated between the telcos Canada's telecom regulator issued a new regulation under which top mobile operators will be required to accept requests for access to their networks from...

#TBT: Razr, Krzr, Rizr; MVNOs on the move; ‘iPod phone’ rumors … this week in 2006

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Motorola follows up...

South Korea ends May with 24 million 5G subscribers

South Korea was the first country to launch commercial 5G networks in April 2019 and currently has 5G coverage across its 85 cities The total number of 5G subscribers in South Korea reached nearly 24 million in May, Korean press reported, citing data from the...