Telenor is stepping out of its comfort zone of hardware and networks, and into software development. Its goal: to beat Silicon Valley to the punch in creating a‘platform’ capable of hosting multiple virtual mobile networks. This week it announced that its own mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in Sweden, Vimla, had become the first client of WG2. First, the platform can be developed to run on top of multiple mobile virtual networks. Asked about prospects for follow-on sales for WG2, Telenor CEO Brekke was candid:“The short answer to that is I don’t know.”But, he said, Telenor considered it vital to challenge its own business model before others do so.

Source: bd News24 March 01, 2018 15:22 UTC