0 commentsRecently, I was talking to someone, and they mentioned the term MVNO, and not wanting to appear stupid, I waited a few minutes if I could figure out what it meant. I thought it was a new artist or something. But then I asked, what’s an MVNO? A mobile virtual operator, someone who sells the phone serviecs without actually owning the network. And I thought, you mean, you could sell a phone service without owning the network? I’m in the wrong business…and then, it dawned on me..I am an M V N O… and I might be the biggest.
What do I mean by that? I don’t have the spectrum, I don’t own the network infrastructure, I don’t make customer service calls, but I do have subscribers. I have tens of millions of them, subscribers, who spent billions of dollars every year on music, on fast foods, on cosmetics, on soda, and yes, on consumer electronics and wireless communications technology.