MVNO carrier comparison
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 7:02 am
Most people know MVNOs as "prepaid" carriers. They lease bandwidth from the actual owners of the network infrastructure (such as AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, etc.). Typically, they are able to cut out some "frills" yielding some savings. Frills on a big network carrier would typically include:
- Phone subsidy (you pay off contract pricing on prepaid carriers, always)
- Prioritized packets (theoretically, AT&T would prioritize traffic to their direct customers)
- With MVNOs, there are many cases of being cut off when the bandwidth allotment is approached (or at some random level, in the case of "unlimited" MVNO offers)
There may be other things I can't think of.
http://www.wpcentral.com/prepaid-carriers-buyers-guide
- Phone subsidy (you pay off contract pricing on prepaid carriers, always)
- Prioritized packets (theoretically, AT&T would prioritize traffic to their direct customers)
- With MVNOs, there are many cases of being cut off when the bandwidth allotment is approached (or at some random level, in the case of "unlimited" MVNO offers)
There may be other things I can't think of.
http://www.wpcentral.com/prepaid-carriers-buyers-guide