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Re:Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes by ISL on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @08:28PM (#12214550)
Ting (a cellular MVNO) is doing that successfully (so far).

As a customer and an investor, I'm a fan.

Re:Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes by HelloImDumb on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @09:11PM (#12214804)
I subscribe to Ting and I'm happy with it. But, while very good, it's far from unique. I came in from another Sprint MVNO that was very good but slipping in value proposition. An MVNO is almost by nature a precarious thing. Major telecom? It's a subsidiary of Tucows, which will to me be forever be linked to '90s shareware downloads, its listing is basically an accident of the dotcom bubble, and it has a market cap of < $300 million. I'm guessing their domain name line easily rivals Ting in value. Healthy in its niche, but no major force. By comparison, Frontier, a smaller RBOC, is worth $5.6B, frigging T-Mobile is worth $9.5B.
Re:Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes by rayiner on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @10:02PM (#12215040)
Sprint is losing $2 billion a year. No Sprint MVNO is sustainable.