Visiongain, an independent business information provider for the Telecoms, Pharmaceutical, Defence, Energy and Metals industries, via its new report 'Analysis of the MVNO market' forecasts the Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) market to reach more than 170 million connections at the end of 2014. However, MVNOs are expected to represent only a small share of global connections in the next five years.
The market research company expects MVNOs to grow faster than Mobile Network Operators (MNO); this growth will be driven mainly by developing countries such as India and China as the European and North American MVNO markets reach a plateau.
It believes that new services such as mobile money and M2M will help drive this growth, but the most important factor is the changing regulatory environment supporting MVNOs.
Visiongain points out that the decreasing ARPU, low customer satisfaction and increasing CAPEX from MNOs are also motivating the success of MVNOs and in markets such as China and India it will help in creating a more competitive and transparent telecoms market.
