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Revenue is R106 billion per
Mobile
annum.
Service Revenue was
•Mobile
billion for the 12 months
R78.8
30 September 2015 of
ending
mobile voice: 53% and
which
data: 38%
mobile
Mobile Networks, Vodacom
Four
MTN 35%, Cell C 23%,
39%,
2%. Telkom
Africa has around 80 million
South
connections. The networks
mobile
under pressure and are cutting
are
margins.
are gaining momentum
MVNOs
the likes of FNB and Mr Price
with
launching in the last 24
Mobile
followed by the likes of
months,
MVNO does not have its own
an
frequency allocation of
licensed
spectrum, nor does it
radio
have all of the
necessarily
required to provide
infrastructure
telephone services. Even
mobile
MVNOs do not own the
though
spectrum or wireless
wireless
they give a virtual
infrastructure,
of owning a wireless
appearance
These operators lease the
network.
capacity from traditional
wireless
and then repackage it for
operators
specific vertical industry
a
The main added value
application.
MVNOs provide is billing and
that
care functions. In that
customer
MVNOs own the customers.
sense
generally provide both voice
MVNOs
data services to end users
and
either a prepaid or post-paid
through
agreement.
subscription
major challenge to setup MVNOs is
A
IT and network integration.
the
most MVNOs deploy
Therefore,
which then provide the
MVNEs
with the MNO, financial
agreements
and business plan
modelling
turnkey billing and CRM
development,
commercial functions such
systems,
credit and collections, sales and
as
and customer care
distribution
An MVNE provides the
services.
architecture and may enter
technical
a wholesale agreement with a
into
MNO, to enable mobile service
host
Differentiator has a relationship
The
an MVNE and could broker a
with
features
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The Mobile Revenue in South Africa is worth R106 billion per annum with an estimated 80
million connections. MVNO's are gaining momentum with FNB and Mr. Price Mobile and
Virgin Mobile the biggest.
B Y J O H A N V A N Z Y L
Current market
What is an MVNO?
What is an MVNE?
provision.
Me&You and Boksel more recently.
transaction for a potential MVNO.
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