{"id":2050,"date":"2021-01-21T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squire-technologies.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2023-06-06T09:42:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T08:42:39","slug":"data-the-new-crude-oil-drives-mvno-consolidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/squire-technologies.co.uk\/blog\/data-the-new-crude-oil-drives-mvno-consolidation","title":{"rendered":"Data, The New Crude Oil Driving MVNO Consolidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Header-Image_Right_2a.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Header-Image_Left_2.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SanjeevBW_Circle_2021.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h1>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>2020 has seen a wave of consolidation wash over the telecoms market with a renewed focus on maximising subscribers and the rich data they bring with them.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h1 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/h1>\n<div>\n<div id=\"ember3356\" class=\"artdeco-entity-lockup artdeco-entity-lockup--size-4 ember-view\">\n<div id=\"ember3363\" class=\"reader-author-info__content artdeco-entity-lockup__content ember-view\">\n<div id=\"ember3364\" class=\"reader-author-info__author-lockup--flex artdeco-entity-lockup__title ember-view\">\n<h4 class=\"reader-author-info__text reader-author-info__name t-16 t-bold reader-author-info__meta-author-detail--has-hover mr2\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Sanjeev Verma | CEO at Squire Technologies<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High profile acquisitions in 2020 included Verizon acquiring the United States largest MVNO, Tracfone for an eye watering $6billion dollars. Other acquisitions included Belgium\u2019s largest MNO Proximus acquiring Mobile Vikings for $130million, Optus acquiring AmaySIM for $250million, T-Mobile Netherlands acquiring the country\u2019s largest MVNO Simpel, and Spain\u2019s MasMovil acquiring the World\u2019s largest MVNO, Lycamobile for \u20ac372million euros.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data is of course considered as being the new oil, and as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">crude oil itself fell into negative value during 2020 as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, data quite literally proved to be so, driving economies across the world as telecom operators and CSP\u2019s kept businesses going through periods of lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While much of the focus has been on the incumbent operators&#8217; tussle with regulators and the question of what makes for healthy competition, it\u2019s been the acquisition\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of Full MVNO\u2019s that has been of much greater interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Incumbent operators have experienced a serious squeeze on cash-flow from all sides in recent years. 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Coming at a time when serious investment in 5G is demanded to secure subscribers, MNO\u2019s have turned to acquisitions for revenue growth.<\/p>\n<p>Telcos have long harvested insights from data to drive operational and network efficiencies, but the promise of greater data sets and a bonanza of opportunities to monetize them through 5G and IOT advancements has inspired operators to maximise subscribers and treat them as they do their networks, as long term assets.<\/p>\n<p>With a mature MVNO market giving rise to a choice of Full MVNO\u2019s, those virtual operators without the infrastructure dependency of their host MNO, operators are taking the opportunity to add significant value to their businesses by poaching customers off their rivals through targeted MVNO acquisitions.<\/p>\n<p>With MNO\u2019s focussed on acquiring subscribers, the roadmap to acquisition for MVNO\u2019s is a simple formula: the adoption of their own Core Network to have complete control of your subscribers 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