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Is prepaid causing wireless instability?
Jul 06, 2009, Connected Planet Online, By Sarah Reedy
With TracFone undercutting the prepaid players at $45, the next wave of M&A is needed to revive a saturated market

Is prepaid causing wireless instability?
Jul 06, 2009, Connected Planet Online, By Sarah Reedy
With TracFone undercutting the prepaid players at $45, the next wave of M&A is needed to revive a saturated market

Virgin Mobile lowers rates as prepaid competition heats up | Telephony Online
Apr 09, 2009, Connected Planet Online, By Sarah Reedy
Virgin Mobile today reduced its $80 all-you-can-eat calling plan to $50 and added unlimited night and weekend minutes to its lower-cost plans

Virgin Mobile lowers rates as prepaid competition heats up | Telephony Online
Apr 09, 2009, Connected Planet Online, By Sarah Reedy
Virgin Mobile today reduced its $80 all-you-can-eat calling plan to $50 and added unlimited night and weekend minutes to its lower-cost plans

Boost Mobile blurs line between pre-, postpaid markets
Jan 15, 2009, Connected Planet Online, By Sarah Reedy
Boost Mobile took prepaid to an all-time low today with its announcement that it will sell $50 unlimited monthly service with no hidden charges beginning next week.

Hearts, minds and the mobile address book
Sep 19, 2008, Connected Planet Online, By Whitey Bluestein
Mobile operators face a new battle for control of the customer relationship. But this time it's not about ringtones, games and search; it's about what is quite possibly their most valuable asset: the application you use to make a phone call.

Hearts, minds and the mobile address book
Sep 19, 2008, Connected Planet Online, By Whitey Bluestein
Mobile operators face a new battle for control of the customer relationship. But this time it's not about ringtones, games and search; it's about what is quite possibly their most valuable asset: the application you use to make a phone call.

Hearts, minds and the mobile address book
Sep 19, 2008, Connected Planet Online, By Whitey Bluestein
Mobile operators face a new battle for control of the customer relationship. But this time it's not about ringtones, games and search; it's about what is quite possibly their most valuable asset: the application you use to make a phone call.

Narrowing the innovation gap
Jul 14, 2008, Connected Planet Online, By Whitey Bluestein
The winds of change are blowing through the mobile industry. Maybe it's mobile penetration — now at 85% — forcing the need for new strategies.

Unlimited offers – New plan or new business model?
Mar 03, 2008, Connected Planet Online, By Whitey Bluestein
Much has been written about $99 unlimited voice plans recently announced by Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. The hype is deafening. But the fact remains that 99% of mobile customers donÂ’t need $99 unlimited voice or kitchen-sink plans

MVNO Resource Page | TELEPHONY Online
Dec 13, 2006, Connected Planet Online
The MVNO market today: How to be an MVNO, avoid MVNO failure, keys to MVNO success, and more news and industry updates related to the mobile virtual network operator market.

Mobile music industry continues to grow
Sep 25, 2006, Connected Planet Online, By Whitey Bluestein
In today's mobile world, it's all about music. Start with the splashy introduction of new music phones. Mix in falling mobile Web access prices and new music download services. And finally, trumpet a high-profile deal, like Nokia's Loudeye acquisition, and the band is clearly warming up. But are we ready to call this music? Mobile music is not just the next big thing. It may be the catalyst that once

MVNO companies, not as "virtual" as they once were
May 22, 2006, Connected Planet Online, By Whitey Bluestein
With so many high-profile MVNOs launching this year Amp'd Mobile, Disney, ESPN, Helio, TYo and Voce, to name a few it's time to think about MVNOs in a different way. Why? Because there is very little that is about them any longer. They have developed into real companies, providing differentiated services and compelling features to well-defined users. As these new companies become operational, they

Three keys to MVNO success
Mar 06, 2006, Connected Planet Online, by Whitey Bluestein
It was only 10 years ago, after a conversation among colleagues, that I developed the concept that became the first mobile virtual network operator.

Global Commentary
Jan 01, 2006, Connected Planet Online

Access - Commentary
Jan 01, 2006, Connected Planet Online

Data Center & BSS/OSS Commentary
Jan 01, 2006, Connected Planet Online

Cable's wireless foray
Dec 12, 2005, Connected Planet Online, As told to Jason Meyers
Whitey Bluestein is a San Francisco-based consultant (www.whiteybluestein.com) with clients in the MVNO, mobile entertainment, mobile TV, fixed-mobile convergence and CRM/loyalty sectors. Bluestein, a former MCI and Visage Mobile executive, will contribute regular commentary to Telephony in 2006. He talked to Telephony about the recent partnership between Sprint and four cable companies (Comcast,

How to be an MVNO
Jun 27, 2005, Connected Planet Online, As told to Jason Meyers
Whitey Bluestein, MNVO pioneered for MCI and Visage Mobile, talked to Telephony about market growth, carriers' wholesale strategies and what it takes to be a good MVNO.

How to be an MVNO, part 2
Jun 27, 2005, Connected Planet Online, As told to Jason Meyers
Although he didnÂ’t get credit for the MVNO acronym, wireless entrepreneur Whitey Bluestein pioneered the concept of the mobile virtual network operator when he developed a virtual network operation for MCI in the mid 1990s. HereÂ’s more of BluesteinÂ’s interview with Telephony.

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