MVNO firms have been around for some years. They purchase airtime from carriers and do their own branding/marketing/sales/customer care billing. Verizon's website has information on how to apply to buy large blocks of minutes and receive CDRs.
Barron's article on what is the likely future for mobile - people buy data not voice minutes and voice runs over data. The article discusses "WiFi offload" and the steep technical challenges of consistently making it work.
The End of the Traditional Telcos
By TIERNAN RAY
I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that we'll see the end of the traditional phone company over the course of the next several years.
The reason for that is the pace at which data—e-mails, text messages, Web pages, tweets—is displacing plain old phone calls.
Data usage exceeded voice calls in terms of total cellular network traffic for the first time in December of 2009 ...
A new MVNO could target every prepaid customer, remote sensors and vehicle tracking. Then expand to traditional post-paid.
Monday, May 14, 2012
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