Virgin Mobile selects the MVNO in a Box solution of I-New & Comsys
Santiago, Mattersburg, February 2012 – Virgin Mobile has chosen the MVNO in a Box solution of I-New Unified Mobile Solutions AG and Comsys Telecom & Media B.V. for their new innovative MVNO environment.
I-New is proud to announce for being selected by Virgin Mobile Latin America to supply the complete full MVNO-in-a-box solution. Virgin Mobile Chile will be the first market, planned to set in operation end of first quarter 2012 and plans to build regional services with further roll outs of full MVNO services in the major Latin American markets. As Virgin Mobile focuses very much on the “Young at heart” consumers, positioning itself as a fresh alternative service provider, the demand on innovative products and services were accordingly high. Virgin thereof has selected I-New as partner for the supply and delivery phase for the complete IT and Telecom Infrastructure.
Peter Nussbaumer, Co-Founder and CEO of I-New Unified Mobile Solutions AG: “We are very delighted about the trust Virgin Mobile has shown into I-New and recognizing the unrivalled advantages of our complete one-stop-shop solution. Based on that we are enabling the first footprint ever of the Virgin Group in Latin America and can only express our commitment making this an incomparable success of Virgin Mobile’s MVNO services.”
“I-New’s one stop approach was intriguing to Virgin Mobile as it will allow us to deploy an entirely virtual, heavy MVNO solution in Chile,” said Jim Glass, Virgin Mobile Latin America’s chief technology officer. “We adopted their private cloud architecture that supports our technology centralization strategy across the entire Latin American region. The platform is highly scalable providing the ability to enter new markets faster than our competitors, with disruptive and edgier offerings that appeal to Virgin Mobile’s target.”
The MVNO in a Box solution contains everything that a company needs to start its own MVNO or MVNE. The solution is unique, highly flexible and designed according to the new Telco 2.0 definition. I-New and Comsys have developed and designed the solution to enable real flexibility and convergence for the customer and to have minimal initial investments by a time to market. The product is very scalable from 10.000 subscribers up to millions; it is multitenant and supports a multitude of market segmentations.
The MVNO in a box solution has many features such as: Real-time IN Services, Voicemail, Postpaid, Prepaid, SMS-C, USSD Gateway, Messaging Services, MMS, Real-time Convergent Charging and Rating Engine, CRM, Wholesales Billing, Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence, Provisioning, Mobile Marketing and Advertising, Voice (IVR) Services, Voucher Management System, Service Creation Environment, Flexible Mediation, Loyalty and Campaign manager, and more.
About Virgin Mobile Latin America:
Virgin Mobile Latin America (VMLA) is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that intends to expand the world-class Virgin Mobile brand throughout Latin America, joining a growing network of Virgin Mobile operations in seven countries (Australia, Canada, France, India, South Africa, UK and the USA) serving 15 million mobile subscribers. Virgin Mobile Latin America’s management and shareholders include some of the wireless industry’s most experienced teams with an impressive track record of success in the MVNO business.