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Re:Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid by wil421 on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @07:33PM (#47145675)
Do they own the enodeBs or the RAN? How many hops does it take to get to their core? Not sure how MVNO works maybe they have encrypted VLANs to their systems. Not a RAN guy.
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Re:Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid by alek-cape on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @10:14PM (#47146842)
We don't own eNodeBs/gNodeBs (the RAN). We operate as an MVNO. It is worth calling out that we operate as a full MVNO though, which is different from many MVNOs in the US currently, who tend to fall on the lighter end of the MVNO spectrum.

The primary difference is we run our own mobile core entirely.

Can you elaborate on the hops question? Not sure I quite understand what you're asking since there are a few ways to interpret "hops".

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Re:Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid by simfree on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @02:52PM (#47156887)
Which vendor did you choose to partner with to provide the mobile core (IMS and such)?

I've talked to a few tangentially and it seems like an interesting space.

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