Most core vendors will not talk to you until you have an operator-scale subscriber base. So new entrants launch as a light MVNO, hand control to the host network, and accept the ceiling that comes with it. Telco-in-a-Box gives you a full MVNO platform from your first thousand subscribers, on the same software that scales to millions.
You want to launch as a full MVNO. You want your own subscriber registry, your own messaging, your own provisioning and billing, and the freedom to design your own services. What you do not want is to wait until you have a million subscribers to justify it.
The traditional core vendors price for operator scale. At launch, the numbers do not work, so most new entrants start as a light MVNO. The host network keeps control of the platform, and the services you can offer are the services the host allows.
Then growth arrives, and the light setup hits its ceiling. Moving to a full platform mid-growth is a migration, and migrations land at exactly the wrong moment: when subscriber numbers are climbing and the network cannot afford disruption.
The decision should not be launch small or launch full. It should be launch full at any size, and grow without changing platforms.
Telco-in-a-Box is a turnkey full MVNO platform. It starts at 1,000 users and scales to millions through licence upgrades on the same software. No migration, no re-platforming as you grow.
Underneath the network functions sits the information system that runs the business: provisioning, customer care, and billing. You control your subscribers, your services, and your commercial relationship.
The platform runs on redundant COTS hardware in a high-availability setup. It is virtualisable, deployable in the cloud or on premises, and available as OPEX rental or CAPEX purchase.
Pricing follows a pay-as-you-grow model. It is degressive per subscriber, from €0.20 down to €0.01 per user per month as volume rises. Cost tracks the size of your base rather than the capacity you hope to fill. Optional Excite ROI consulting helps you build the business plan and the deployment plan before you commit.
By default it includes the network functions a full MVNO needs, with provisioning, customer care and billing underneath. The same software carries you from a thousand subscribers to millions — you grow by upgrading a licence, not by changing platforms.
Provisioning, customer care and billing — the business layer beneath the network.
Provisioning, customer care and billing — the business layer beneath the network.
You want full MVNO freedom from day one, even at a low subscriber count. Telco-in-a-Box starts at 1,000 users, so you own your registry, your messaging, and your services from launch instead of renting them from the host network.
You already operate, but the host controls your platform and your CAPEX budget is tight. Move to a full MVNO on OPEX rental and take control of provisioning, care, and billing without a large upfront commitment.
You are a host network and you want a standard, reproducible setup for the MVNOs you onboard. One repeatable platform per tenant shortens onboarding and keeps each MVNO’s operation consistent.
You are building an MVNO around a dedicated offer, for example mobile banking or a health service. A full platform with USSD and your own service control gives you the room to build the service your market needs, not the one the host happens to support.
Ouroboros is the European leading provider of full MVNO infrastructure on GSM and LTE. The platform that launches you at 1,000 subscribers is the same platform that runs networks with millions. You grow by upgrading a licence, not by changing vendors.
The tier-1 vendors will not serve you at launch scale. Ouroboros does, and it backs that with a production record at carrier scale the larger vendors will not extend to an MVNO this size.
Pricing scales with your base. OPEX rental aligns the platform cost with your subscriber revenue, so you are not paying for an operator-scale core before you have operator-scale numbers.
The real decision at launch is not which features to buy. It is whether you start as a light MVNO and migrate later, or start full now and grow without a re-platform. Bring us your target subscriber count and the services you want to run, and we will size the platform and, with Excite ROI consulting, help you put numbers to the business case.