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Italy MVNO Companies
The Italian Mobile Market has Four Mobile Network Operators(MNO)s, of which, only H3G, Telecom Italia, Vodafone and Wind offer access and origination on mobile telecommunication networks to Resellers and MVNO. Presently there is a total of 23 Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO). Based on our research, we have identified that H3G has 6 MVNO Agreements, Telecom Italia has 3 MVNO Agreements, Vodafone has 6 MVNO. and finally Wind has 5 MVNO Agreements.
View a Brief Overview on the Italian Telecommunications Overview or; alternatively view Related Articles & Documents. For further information, please go-to Agcom, Italian Telecommunications Regulator.
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H3G aka 3
Telecom Italia SpA
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This is an updated and fairly comprehensive listing for MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) in Italy today. We have listed most known and Active Italian MVNO/SP & ESP companies (where possible). If you have updated information about the companies listed below, or are not listed then please use the following form.
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Italian MVNO Companies
50e Plunet
50e is owned by 50Plu Fenacom, part of national retailers’ association Confcommercio to offer the association, which has more than 400,000 members, mobile telephone services including voice, data and video. The mobile services is available in the 800 offices which are part of 50&Piu Fenacom’s national network. In addition, 50Plu have launched a senior MVNO Service, called 50e Plunet which focuses on the elderly.
MVNO; Network: 3HG Italy; Services: Pre+postpaid; Status: ActiveA-Mobile
French retail group Auchan Group launched its mobile phone service over SFR’s network on 16 October 2006. Auchan has a partnership with Comarch Telecom for billing, customer registration, self care, deposit management and other services. In april the 18th 2008 Auchan entered the Italian market. It has been Suggested that A-Mobile & Telpass have stopped taking new Customers, and that the service may be transferred to Wind.
MVNO; Network: Wind; Services: Prepaid; Status: Active – Launch Date: Apr’08Autostrade
Motorways operator Autostrade have teamed up to launch a MVNO. Users of the Telepass system can access the highway system will be able to subscribe to Telepass Mobile, which is operated by Wind. In addition, Wind in partnership with Highways have installed on some motorway service areas a Hi-Point Access Point which allows users to access Wi-F services. The Hi-Point are currently has 35 scattered locations throughout the Italian motorway network and will be expanded to be 80. Autostrade also owns TowerCo, a facility to allow Italian MNOs install base stations on Autostrada property.
MVNO; Network: Wind; Services: Postpaid; Status: ActiveBladna Mobile
MVNO Network: Vodafone Italy; Services: Prepaid; Status: Live> – New – Launch Date: Dec’11BT Mobile
BT Mobile, formerly known als TLC Albacom, is a mobile operator in Italy for the BT fixed line service provider. This company traditionally serves the business market.
MVNO/ESP; Network: Vodafone Italy; Services: Postpaid SME; Status: Active – Launch Date: Dec’07BT Enia
MVNO/ESP; Network: Vodafone Italy; Services: Prepaid; Status: Live – NEW – Dec’10Carrefour UNO Mobile
French hypermarkets group Carrefour owns its MVNO service, Carrefour Mobile, using the Orange France network and offers the service at its 218 superstores across the country.
MVNO; Network: Vodafone Italy; Services: Prepaid; Status: Active – Launch Date: June’07Conad Insim
Conad (Consorzio Nazionale Dettaglianti), an Italian retail stores brand which operates one of the largest supermarket chains in Italy, has been launched as a virtual mobile telephony operator.
MVNO; Network: Vodafone Italy; Services: Prepaid; Status: Active – Launch Date: Apr’08Coop Voce
Telecom Italia Mobile has agreed to lease its network to retailer COOP (largest supermarket chain in Italy).
MVNO; Network: Tim / Telecom Italy; Services: Prepaid; Status: Active – Launch Date: June’07Daily Telecom Mobile
MVNO; Network: Vodafone Italy; Services: Prepaid; Status: Active – Launch Date: Apr’08Digi Mobil
Romanian-based operator RCS&RDS has launched Digi Mobil Italia, an ethnic MVNO whose offering is aimed at the Romanian community in Italy. The move comes after RCS&RDS launched its first ethnic MVNO DigiMobil in Spain in 2008. At present, Digi Mobil Italia offers a starter prepaid package that includes a dual number SIM card for receiving calls both in Italy as well as in Romania.
MVNO; Network: 3HG Italy; Services: Prepaid; Status: Active – New – Launch Date: Oct’10Digitel Italia Mobile
MVNO; Network: 3HG Italy; Services: Prepaid; Status: Active – Launch Date: Jan’09EnelMia
Enel (Ente Nazionale per l’Energia eLettrica) is an Italian energy provider, the third-largest in Europe by market capitalization. Formerly a state-owned monopoly, it is now partially privatised with Italian government control. No Information Can be found on the mobile service other than it’s website. If you have information on the status of this company, and the services that it offers, please use the following form.
MVNO; Network: Wind; Services: Prepaid; Status: ActiveERG Mobile
MVNO; Network: Vodafone Italy; Services: Prepaid; Status: Active – Launch Date: Apr’09eutelia
No Information Can be found on the mobile service other than it’s website. If you have information on the status of this company, and the services that it offers, please use the following form.Mobile Fastweb
See the Profile for Fastweb.
MVNO; Network: 3HG Italy; Services: Postpaid; Status: Active – Launch Date: Sep’08Green ICN S.P.A
Italian fixed telephony and broadband services provider Green ICN has launched a MVNO service in Italy.
MVNO; Network: Wind; Services: Postpaid; Status: Active – Launch Date: New: 12-09-11Italia-Mobile
italia-Mobile is a subsidiary of Resi Group. View the Resi Group Profile. For further information on MVNE Companies & Services, go-to the MVNE page.
MVNE; Network: Various; Services: MVNE/A; Status: ActiveLycamobile
LycaMobile SpA, is a division of LycaMobile; a Pan European MVNO Provider with multiple MVNO’s through-out Europe, and now available in Australia too. Lycamobile offers prepaid SIM cards with aggressive international rates, focusing on users who normally use calling cards to phone abroad. Lycamobile is a UK based MVNO/MVNA company with active MVNOs in 10 countries.
MVNO; Network: 3HG Italy; Services: Prepaid; Status: Active – Launch Date: June’09Materna
For further information on Materna, use the following Resource. To view information on other MVNE Companies & Services, go-to the MVNE page.
MVNE; Network: Various; Services: MVNE/A; Status: ActiveMTV Mobile
MVNO owned by MTV Europe offering multimedia services as well as mobiel voice + SMS.
MVNO; Network: Tim / Telecom Italy; Services: Prepaid; Status: Active – Launch Date: July’08Nòverca Mobile
Noverca is owned by Acotel SpA. See Noverca Company Profile. In Mar, 2011 Acotel Board that it is near conversion to a Full MVNO.
Full MVNO; Network: Telecom Italy; Services: Prepaid; Status: Active – Launch Date: Mar’09Plintron
For further information on Plintron’s MVNE Services, go-to the MVNE page.
MVNE; Network: Various; Services: MVNE/A; Status: ActivePosteMobile
PosteMobile SpA is the Poste Italiane Group company that operates in the telecommunications sector. Set up in March 2007, it began operating on the market on 26 November of the same year. PosteMobile develops and offers mobile information, transaction and communication solutions, integrated with a portfolio of useful services within the Poste Italiane Group, which can be employed on the move and in complete safety. The combination of specific skills offered by PosteMobile together with BancoPosta services constitutes more than just a successful case history: it is also an added-value element in mobile telephony services. PosteMobile has a distribution network of 14,000 post offices at its disposal, as well as the internet channel and the call centre.
MVNO; Network: Vodafone Italy; Services: Prepaid; Status: Active – Launch Date: Nov’07Smart Pinoy
Mobile operator PLDT Global has teamed up with foreign & local partners to launch mobile phone services in Italy focusing on the filipino community.
MVNO; Network: 3HG Italy; Services: Prepaid; Status: Active – Launch Date: Sep’08TelePass Mobile
It has been Suggested that A-Mobile & Telpass have stopped taking new Customers, and that the service may be transferred to Wind.
MVNO; Network: Wind; Services: Prepaid; Status: Active – Launch Date: May’08Tiscali Mobile
MVNO; Network: Tim / Telecom Italy; Services: Pre+postpaid; Status: Active – Launch Date: Dec’08Value Team
Value Team builds value-added mobile services thanks to our distinctive offer that enables MVNOs to quickly and cost effective launch new branded mobile operations. For further information on MVNE Companies & Services, go-to the MVNE page.
OSS; Network: Various; Services: MVNE/A; Status: Active
Italy Telecommunications Market Overview Brief:Companies & Markets (Excerpt) – Since our last update on Italy’s telecommunications market, new operational and financial data has been published pertaining to the end of 2009. Furthermore, a significant amount of data has been published for the first three months of 2010. In addition to year-end data provided by Italy’s fixed-line incumbent Telecom Italia, new operational and financial data has been provided by the sector’s other mobile operators, Vodafone, WIND and 3 Italia. Q409 and Q110 data has also been published by alternative wireline operators such as Swisscom-backed Fastweb and Tiscali.According to the latest mobile subscriber data, Italy had just over 81.1mn mobile subscribers at the end of 2009; this gave the country a national penetration rate of 137.4%. In contrast to the continued decline of the mobile market in Q309, Italy’s mobile customer base experienced moderate growth in the final quarter of 2009. A return to positive growth by Vodafone was the main reason for this phenomenon. The solid subscriber growth which was reported by Vodafone, WIND and 3 Italia in the three months to 31 December helped to ensure growth for the market as a whole. This was in spite of the continued loss of customers being reported by market leader Telecom Italia.
Our current set of forecast figures for Italy’s mobile subscriber base anticipates a slow decline in the number of mobile customers over the next five years. Despite the recent discounting of inactive prepaid users by Telecom Italia and Vodafone, we believe that the Italian mobile customer base continues to harbour a significant number of inactive customers. In 2009, the impact of Telecom Italia and Vodafone’s discounting strategies more than offset the customer gains reported by WIND and 3. However, in the longer-term, we believe that these latter companies may also begin discounting their inactive prepaid users. Any attempt to do this on a significant scale would result in a much steeper decline in the number of mobile subscriber than our forecast currently envisages.
Meanwhile, the latest operational data published by Telecom Italia, Fastweb, WIND, Vodafone and Tiscali, appears to affirm our earlier estimate regarding the size of Italy’s broadband subscriber market at the end of 2009. We estimate that Italy’s broadband subscriber base grew by 9.5% in 2009 to reach almost 12.4mn at the end of the year.
Although Italy own scores remain unchanged this quarter’s update to the Business Environment Rankings for Western Europe, the country has risen by one position and sits in 12th place in our table. Italy’s Country Risk score remains well below the regional average for Western Europe. The Italian economy is one of the most vulnerable economies in an already shaky eurozone. The Italian economy slipped back into negative growth during Q409, having previously shown signs of stabilisation. Going forward, we still expect a return to positive growth in 2010, although we caution that weak domestic and external demand will allow for a fairly modest rate of economic expansion.
Competition in mobile telecommunications | Brief:
Telecom Italia (Excerpt) – In recent years in Italy, the growth in mobile telecommunications has substantially offset the decline in revenues from fixed telephony; however, the mobile market appears today to be increasingly saturated and mature in its traditional component of voice services (at June 30, 2010, mobile lines in Italy numbered around 92.1 million increasing by 2.1% YoY and with a penetration rate of approx. 150% on the population).Resources & DocumentsAlongside the progressive contraction of the traditional service elements there is however a significant growth in data and value-added services.
This is the situation of Mobile Broadband which has been in the last two years, and will increasingly be in the medium term future, the main strategic and commercial opportunity for the mobile telecommunications industry, able to offset the erosion in the traditional components of revenues such as voice and messaging. In 2009, in , there has been significant growth in mobile BB customers which at the end of the year numbered approximately 11.3 million, with a penetration rate of 12.7% of mobile lines.Alongside the innovative services which are already established and in their full growth phase, such as Mobile Broadband, there are various other market areas with significant medium term growth potential, for example: Mobile Advertising, Mobile Content (e.g. Social Networking), Mobile Payment and Location Based Services.
The development of the mobile telecommunications market depends therefore on a number of factors, in particular:
- competitive and regulatory pressure on retail and wholesale prices
- the development and introduction of new and alternative technologies for mobile telephony products and services (for example, mobile broadband)
- the success/attractiveness of these new technologies.
The competitive scenario in the Italian mobile telecommunications market is dominated by Telecom Italia and also by the following “infrastructured” operators which are focused on different segments of the market or have different strategies:
- Vodafone, strategy/perception as an innovative operator, attentive to the customer and strongly focused on the youth cluster
- Wind, focus on cost conscious segment with a portfolio of simple plans with immediate benefits for the customer
- H3G, operator focused on advanced value-added services (VAS) with competitive pricing (for example micro browsing, mobile broadband and mobile content).
Telecom Italia’s market share of total mobile lines is around 33.2% (3pp down compared to June 30, 2009, i.e. 36.2%).
Telecom Italia; Domestic Market, Q3’10
Telecom Italia, Wind Fight Over Foreign Workers Calling Home; Bloomberg – Oct 6, 2010
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