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Both Sprint and T-Mobile are major providers to MVNO networks -- a significant amount of business they generate comes from carriers who use Sprint/TMo's network
by mmanfrin 12y ago
Both Sprint and T-Mobile are major providers to MVNO networks -- a significant amount of business they generate comes from carriers who use Sprint/TMo's networks, but handle the customer relations/sales/billing themselves.
To Sprint and T-Mobile, Google is just another MVNO carrier.
- salem 12y agoNo, the big difference here is that Google's MVNO is dynamically switching between multiple providers. Most MVNOs are just resellers of a single network. They may migrate users between networks as contracts expire, but dynamically balancing between multiple networks is less common. I'm sure many people have thought of this idea before (Apple included) but actually getting multiple carriers to agree to a deal is what's interesting about this. It's also probable only recently feasible with a mass market phone that can handle all the difference frequencies (and potentially different network types) involved.