A MVNO Train Wreck Coming?

Personally, I think that any project that is being taken on without a lot of foresight can end up a train wreck. So if this is the destiny for Mobile Virtual Network Operators, I would not be that shocked.

Mobile Virtual Network Operators are quite fashionable these days, but eventually they will prove to a train wreck. How crazy it is? Forbes.com published a seriously speculative and flimsy piece about Apple building its own MVNO. It got Slashdotted, despite the fact there were no facts in the story. Even Boing Boing, the directory of wonderful web things was gushing about Disney Mobile MVNO. The argument, most people are using - if its good for Virgin Mobile then it must be good for everyone. Not true. Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile bought protections by offering the piece of the action - aka equity to the network operators! [Read the rest]