MVNO News from September 2009

Week Ending 30th September

Gamma launches new dealer service – United Kingdom
Lebara sponsors music awards – United Kingdom
Digitalk MVNO solution wins award – Global
Fecosur looking to launch soon – Brazil
FRiENDi gets two new investors – Middle East
Virgin Mobile up 100,000 – France
Lycamobile complains about T-Mobile – Netherlands
Videotron signs Connectiva to prevent fraud – Canada
New Virgin chief sets ambitious agenda – South Africa

Week Ending 23rd September

Primus enters into new contract with Rogers – Canada
giffgaff to launch sharing service – United Kingdom
Regulator receives 2 MVNO applications - Vietnam
Lebara reduces fixed line prices to Eastern Europe – United Kingdom
TuneTalk could overtake new MNO – Malaysia
More legal challenges for Sprint’s Virgin Mobile buy out – USA
Marc Simoncini’s looking to start new French MVNO in 2010 – France
Just Mobile’s tariff reduced – Australia
Disney mobile content heading to Virgin Mobile users – United Kingdom
Lower interconnect rates would assist MVNOs – South Africa
Lycamobile partners O2 UK for roaming – United Kingdom

Week Ending 16th September

Rumours lead to false hope of a BT and o2 MVNO – United Kingdom
Credit card companies want to be MVNOs – South Korea
Zon to use Sigma for OSS – Portugal
iPod Nano offered by Simplicime – France
Yoigo and fixed line partners – Spain
Solomon to provide Twitter access for nothing – Germany
2ergo appoints new MVNO head – Global
Budget Mobile cuts tariff – France
Edeka Mobile offers unlimited calls to fixed lines - Germany
XOX teams up with youth radio – Malaysia
Telemore and FatWire team up online – Denmark
Lycamobile pre-pay pays off – United Kingdom
Surf.red reduces mobile Internet tariff – Germany
Roam Simple launches roaming dual-SIM – Canada

Week Ending 9th September

ONO goes lives – Spain
MVNOs look for 3G status – Thailand
Ortel Mobile’s 3rd year incentives – Germany
FRiENDi Mobile expands out of the capital – Oman
Tune Talk already looking for international expansion – Singapore
NTT DoCoMo MVNO talk – USA
Trident Telekom gone – Hong Kong
Surf.red’s laptops for EUR 1 – Germany
PosteMobile deploys Accenture fraud prevention – Italy
Virgin Mobile looking for another franchise – India
TracFone continues SafeLink Wireless roll out into Wisconsin – USA
New CFO for Lycamobile Group – Europe

Week Ending 2nd September

Vertu Club launches – Japan
MNOs being pushed down the MVNO route – South Korea
Mobisud France sold to SFR – France
AT&T interested in own MVNO – India
GreatCall moves Jitterbug to Verizon – USA
They will pay you EUR 100 to be a Tele2 customer – France
PlatinumTel’s unlimited tariff – USA
Telepin mobi retires – Poland
New MD at Autopage – South Africa