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Prepared for eyal | Delivered July 29, 2019
MVNO Market Size
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Goals
To understand the market size for mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) worldwide. This is in terms of total number of MVNOs, total number of users and average number of phones (accounts) each MVNO has, on average.
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Early Findings
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, an industry publication, claims to have a list of
worldwide
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as of 2016.
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Research has found that the MVNO market will be worth
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$95 billion by 2025, but the free sample of their research does not contain the number of networks or users.
In 2018, there were reportedly
1,300
M
V
N
O
s
operating worldwide, accounting for around 220 million connections (expected to reach 260 million by 2022), which is
2.46%
of the total 8.9 billion mobile connections worldwide (at time of writing). The USA, Germany, Japan, the UK and Australia have the
most number
of active
M
V
N
O
s
in their countries.
The
largest
M
V
N
O
s
by number of connections are
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, Virgin Mobile,
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, Snail Mobile,
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, Poste Mobile and Tesco Mobile, which combined are more than 1/3 of total MVNO connections.
A more recent
report
, from May 2019, using GSMA data, claims there are 1,482
M
V
N
O
s
worldwide, with 337 million MVNO users.
GSMA reports the number of unique mobile connects worldwide is currently
5.1 billion
, but this includes all connections, not just
M
V
N
O
s
. GSMA holds the details of every MVNO in the world, available after registration with a business email address.
ResearchandMarkets offers a
MVNO Directory
for purchase, with "760+
M
V
N
O
s
".
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