caltexflanc
Guru
There some MVNO's on Verizon, particularly in the America Movil (Carlos Slim) family, like Page Plus, as well as independents like Red Pocket. Verizon is late to the party on their own prepaid offerings, and rather than go the second brand route (ala MetroPCS, Boost/Virgin and Cricket) are beginning to open prepaid-centric Verizon branded stores in neighborhoods they'd never put a post-paid store, primarily using resellers. Their problem is that the budget consumer doesn't roam outside of their immediate neighborhood, let alone metro area... so why not use T-Mobile or Sprint if it's cheaper?
I have a few clients in the midst of all of the above. There are now more cellphones than people in the US (not uncommon in other countries either), so it's a dog fight. Low average revenue per number "internet of things" applications such as the connected car and remote industrial monitoring and "smart city" applications are big growth areas.
The standards for 5G just got agreed on the other day, and will begin to be commercialized in a year or so, setting off another battle. The frontier there will be competing with the cable companies and local phone providers (and in some areas satellite) for the fixed internet market.
I have a few clients in the midst of all of the above. There are now more cellphones than people in the US (not uncommon in other countries either), so it's a dog fight. Low average revenue per number "internet of things" applications such as the connected car and remote industrial monitoring and "smart city" applications are big growth areas.
The standards for 5G just got agreed on the other day, and will begin to be commercialized in a year or so, setting off another battle. The frontier there will be competing with the cable companies and local phone providers (and in some areas satellite) for the fixed internet market.