A list of all MVNO / SP and news about these companies in the world. You can suggest corrections or additions using our online form. Only announced, launched or rumoured ventures are named on this page.
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Welcome to the Telecompaper Mobile MVNO/SP List. This is a fairly comprehensive listing of MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) and mobile SPs in the world today, as well as relevant news. Where possible, the defunct or purchased entities are listed as well. MVNEs are listed by country after MVNO/SPs. See below for general MVNEs, a news archive, some MVNO resources, etc.
Note: Despite different countries and regulatory bodies having different definitions, we have decided to officially list in the following manner:
Where unclear to us, we have listed "unknown". If you have updated information about the companies listed here, please suggest a change.
MVNO selling prepaid cards.
Lifestyle ESP targeting the youth market. Switched from Optus to Telstra in 2013 in Australia. Boost Mobile in New Zealand was a subsidiary of Telecom New Zealand. The Boost Mobile brand was discontinued in New Zealand as of November 2007. In the USA T-Mobile US is selling Boost to Dish Network as part of the agreed conditions for regulatory clearance of its takeover of Sprint. Boost Mobile will continue to use the T-Mobile network under the seven-year agreement while Dish builds its own network
Offers MiFi device with data plans
Prepaid MVNO owned and managed by by Inphonic.
Life Wireless offers government assisted wireless services to low income families and individuals. Qualified customers receive Free cell phone service. Certain residents may be eligible for a Free cell phone.
Lycamobile offers prepaid SIM cards with reduced international calling rates, focusing on users who normally use calling cards to phone abroad. The company has set up MVNOs in the following countries: UK, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Portugal, Australia, Denmark, France, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Spain, Italy and recently US (March 2013) and Austria (November 2013), Tunisia (2015) and Romania (2015). Macedonia followed in 2016, and Lycamobile launched in Ukraine in July 2017. South Africa followed in 2019 and Uganda in 2020 It ceased its operations in Hong Kong in April 2018
Safelink offers government assisted wireless services to low income families and individuals. It is a program provided by TracFone Wireless, which in turn is a brand of America Movil. Uses America Movil's roaming agreements with over 30 carriers in the USA
States to have over 250k customers in March 2020
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