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Meteor and the price of being third
Ireland’s third mobile entrant had cheap calls, a mischievous streak and a coverage problem. Its turning point came when a rival agreed to lend it the missing pieces of the map.
Yas Madagascar’s $100 Million Bet Came Before the New Name
Before Telma became Yas, it committed $100 million to a mobile network expansion and brought commercial 5G to Madagascar. The next test is getting that infrastructure to earn its place in everyday life.
Ooredoo Tunisie wants a place in your living room
The mobile operator is making home broadband a bigger part of its business. Its 5G bet comes with a useful lesson: the network launch is only the beginning.
Dialog Wants More Than Your Phone Bill
After absorbing Airtel Lanka, Sri Lanka’s telecom heavyweight is selling a bigger slice of connected life: home internet, television, business tools and payments. Its next test is making a costly 5G expansion earn its keep.
Telecom Egypt sells the connection. Even to its competitors.
Behind the WE phone plans sits a business in cables, crossings and other operators’ traffic. Telecom Egypt’s advantage is physical - and so are its costs.
Optus can sell a connection. Can it restore trust?
Australia’s challenger telco has satellites, millions of mobile customers and a rival paying to use its network. Its next test is whether the everyday machinery of the business can live up to the promise.
2degrees made calls cheaper. Staying a challenger costs more.
New Zealand’s third mobile network won attention with 44-cent calls. Its next act involves fibre, private 5G and a proposal to share infrastructure with an old rival.
Vodafone Idea finally adds subscribers. Now comes the expensive part.
After years of contraction, Vi has recorded its first quarter of net subscriber additions since its 2018 merger. Keeping that momentum means turning fresh funding into a network people choose to stay on.
The Carrier That Sold Itself and Kept the Towers
For 40 years UScellular chased signal into the parts of America the big carriers ignored. Then it did the math, sold the customers to T-Mobile, and turned itself into a tower company.