In Latin America, market size and spending levels, opposition from mobile network operators (MNO) and regulations make it difficult for mobile virtual network operators to set up and get established, and no other region in the world has fewer MVNO subscribers as a percentage of total mobile telephony subscribers as Latin America. There are several start-ups in the pipeline but genuine subscriber base could be in the range of 100,000 only for the whole region.
Nevertheless, MVNOs are making inroads into regional markets through focusing on particular residential or corporate segments, and could stand to gain from technology convergence and regulator support as means of broadening competition in the mobile telephony industry. Latin America, which already has a strong mobile base, could be expected to offer similar MVNO opportunities as other parts of the world. Let’s see where Latam is standing at in the first part of our market overview:
Emergence of MVNO in Bolivia is been driven by local fixed line operator cooperatives. These cooperatives lease network capacity to mobile operators.
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