China Mobile Shanghai and Huawei have jointly deployed the world’s first wideband Massive MIMO site to help improve 4G network spectral efficiency. China Mobile has been focusing on the design of wideband Massive MIMO as part of its research on 5G. The…
India’s Department of Telecom (DoT) has published a list of 60 companies applying for an MVNO license in various cities. The companies have between them applied for 70 state, city or sub-district specific licenses across 11 of India’s 22 telecoms circles. The…
Philippine media group ABS-CBN has scaled back its MVNO business in response to a declining subscriber base. The company has cut the annual fees it is paying network provider Globe Telecom in half as part of efforts to curb losses from its ABS-CBN Mobile…
Hong Kong ISP HKBN has secured a license from telecoms regulator OFCA to offer MVNO services in the market. OFCA has granted HKBN an expanded services-based operator license to allow the company to offer mobile services using the infrastructure of established…
A new 4G MVNO is launching in Singapore that aims to give consumers a new way to interact and consume telco services. Digital telco Circles.Life will target the data savvy consumer segment in Singapore. The operator will use M1’s infrastructure under an MVNO…
Australian MVNO Virgin Mobile has launched a publicity stunt to promote its new data rollover postpaid plans by hosting an auction allowing local consumers to ‘bid’ for items using unused data allocations. The company will auction off 30 items over 30 days,…
Spirent Communications has announced that the firm’s mobile device intelligence unit -Tweakker, has won its first contract with a mobile virtual network operator [MVNO] in Asia. Called redONE , the contract enables the MVNO to embed Tweakker’s self-care…