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Welcome to mobilevirtualnetwork.co.uk  This resource is written by the author of the best selling Pyramid Research report "Next Generation MVNOs: A Global Perspective". Christian is a freelance consultant and associate of CVL and has done everyting from due diligence to business models, marketing strategies, sales chennels, resolving some of the key OSS issues the MVNOS have overcome (HLR partitioning, billing issues, scalability and sourcing issues, etc) to get where they are today, as well as designing and pushing channles to market, expansion and even assisted with MVNO acquisitions. Previously he was mobile director at social networing start-up icom and prior to that Director of Virtuser, a provider of innovative MVNO, Convergence and Mobile Application solutions since 2001. Christian started working on the first MVNOs as a consultant with Mason Analysys, on pioneering MVNO and VISPs in the UK. Christian has spoken at, chaired and sat on expert panels discussing the benefits of MVNOs at major international conferences. Contact Christian Christian's Blog As well as extensive free content, you can also buy reports and research written by Christian and selected third parties, as well as request consultancy services, in the MVNO reports and business plans or the contact pages. posted by Christian Borrman 11:51am 07/05/08 Latest Mobile Virtual Network Research and Reports. MVNO reports from 3rd parties as well as my own reports, with free consultations and white papers when they are bought from this site, see the new premium services menu, left. Tesco Converged MVNO; VoIP, VoWLAN using SIP and own broadband VoIP service One of the key issues of Tesco when first negotiating their MVNO when I was at Mason Analysis, was that the host MNO needed a certain level of success and takeup for the then MNO investment in the MVNO (there were no MVNEs at the time) however, if the MVNO became too successful, it could prove a burden on the host network. Convergence is a simple way to... read more posted by Christian Borrman 13:23am 28/05/08
More MVNO failures Dotmobile has been added to the long list of MVNO failures. It was not hard, when I was lured to join Social networking web start-up icom, my first task was to set-up a youth MVNO. "Boll**ks" was the response from the billionaire investor to my first draft that the industry and my peers were lapping up for a youth MVNO. The truth is... read more
posted by Christian Borrman 11:26pm 28/03/08
It is no secret that a typical MVNO may only manage to get a 10% to 40% margin on calls, onto which it has to add its costs. This is usually OK, and many of these have either already been sunk, written off or are ... read full article posted by Christian Borrman 11:26am 25/09/07
RE: Why Europe's Mobile Startups Sing ... the artcile in Businees Week, Why Europe's Mobile Startups Sing ... is right in that one MVNO model is the low cost route, however there are more important keys I have seen, from behind the scenes, that have made or broke MVNOs in ... read full article posted by Christian Borrman 11:26am 25/09/07
I have received an email from Pyramid with this title. It is amazing ... just two year's after publishing "Next Generation MVNOs" that Pyramid finally ask if there is still value in the last generation MVNO. Well no; there was no value in the old MVNO model in 2004 when I began writing the report, nor was there in 2005 when it was published; even less so today. Today's MVNO is a much leaner ... read full article posted by Christian Borrman 06:50am 05/04/07
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