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Lightyear Partners with Sprint for New MVNO

Jun 8, 2011, 7:23 AM by Eric M. Zeman

A company called Lightyear today announced the launch of a new MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) that will offer pre-paid and post-paid cellular phone services using Sprint's network. Lightyear, which has an existing customer base of about 60,000 users, already offers wireline communications. It hopes to expand its reach by offering bundled wireless and wireline services across its footprint in Kentucky. It didn't provide details on its initial batch of phones, nor when the service will go live.

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Versed

Jun 8, 2011, 3:43 PM

How many MVNO's does Sprint need?

OK, Virgin Mobile, Boost, and some other I forgot the name of that gives free phones away. How many MVNO's does Sprint need?

Mark_S

True that Sprint has many. I am all for the MVNO's. They don't screw around with billing like the big post-paid carriers.
The only epic-fail with MVNO companies is that the customer service is unintelligible and even a 5 year-old with learning disabi...
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Tofuchong

Wouldn't a MVNO bring in additional revenue to the network owner ? If that is the case, as long as the network has the capacity to support the new customers, doenst that mean the more MVNOs the better?

bobc74

Please remind me again what does at&t do with their precious network spectrum? Oh, yeah they provide 3G services to MVNO's like Amazon, Apple and Sony for Kindles, Ipad's and other similar devices.

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mycool

Jun 8, 2011, 9:31 PM

Yes!

The market should be just a bunch of MVNOs and the carriers should be regulated utilities. Every time I read something like this I get so happy it's coming closer to that realization.

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