MVNO

Week in Review: Telco foul play, and a games catalyst
Our Telco Deep Dive series continues, but DNA founder Karamjit Singh sees a gaming catalyst for Asean as the big news for the week.
Telco Deep Dive: MVNO Merchantrade and its ire at incumbents
In business since 2003 when it began selling calling cards, Merchantrade today lays claims to being the largest Malaysian remittance player and among the largest MVNO players. And that has become a problem as the established mobile players start attacking its migrant market segment.
Telco Deep Dive: Celcom out to regain lost momentum
Continuing our Telco Deep Dive, Goh Thean Eu speaks to Celcom CEO Shazalli Ramly on his plans for 2015, after the first quarter saw the company slipping.
Clixster and Enabling Asia click together in proposed merger
Little known Clixster has come to the fore of the MVNO business by merging with Enabling Asia, emerging the majority shareholder there. Karamjit Singh speaks to both CEOs.
redONE winning the postpaid war against the Big 3
Incumbents seeing flattish or negative growth in postpaid segment MVNO in talks with Celcom on possible equity participation
Will Voopee be a cushion for XOX?
XOX-Voopee may not be compelling enough for users to switch from their current messaging apps Still, product has some interesting features that XOX can leverage and improve on to be a real player
Prabhu Mobile launches MVNO via Enabling Asia
Nepali-based remittance player Prabhu Money Transfer has become Enabling Asia’s second Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) with the launch of Prabhu Mobile services, targeted exclusively at its 200,000 monthly walk-in remittance customers in Malaysia.
Celcom takes 20% stake in MVNO Merchantrade
In a move that one telco consultant calls a “very smart diversification strategy,” Celcom Axiata Bhd is believed to have taken a 20% stake in Merchantrade Asia Sdn Bhd, a leading remittance provider and since 2008, a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) with around 500,000 active subscribers at present.
Week in Review: Telco tales
It was a week of telco tales, writes Karamjit Singh: A new MVNO launched by an MVNA; Maxis’ new CEO declining his role due to personal reasons; a telco that is actually an Internet company; and the big momma of them all seeing data and Internet revenue overtaking voice.
Enabling Asia launches its own MVNO service, Buzz Me
Enabling Asia launches its MVNA business model with UMobile as exclusive network partner and having invested RM20m so far.
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