Symbio launches sub-wholesale MVNO service

Australian wholesale telecoms operator Symbio Networks has launched an innovative new sub-wholesale MVNO offering allowing the activation of new SIMs within seven seconds of order placement.

Through an agreement with Australia’s largest mobile operator Telstra, Symbio Networks will provide a service providing 4G coverage of 95% and combined 4G and 3G coverage of 98.8% of Australia’s far-flung population.

The service will use Symbio’s iBoss platform to allow new mobile players to go to market in four weeks and activate SIMs in seconds.

The white label service will allow customers to manage their own billing and communications with customers. Symbio also offers a conventional agency model iBoss MVNO service for customers which do not want to handle their own billing.

Symbio said it has already signed up a number of new mobile players, including ISP Aussie Broadband.

“Symbio and [parent company] MNF Group have a proven track record of delivering innovative, first to market solutions for our customers,” MNF Group CEO and co-founder Rene Sugo said.

“While our agency MVNO offer has been welcomed by wholesale customers, we also found that there was a growing demand for services through a sub-wholesale model. This new MVNO offer will give our customers unprecedented control over their own consumers when it comes to billing and communication; we simply deliver the SIM card and the 4G mobile coverage.”