Beyond price: what happens when your original MVNO advantage stops working?
Speaker preview — Kim André Irgens Nilsen, COO, Fjordkraft Mobil Most conference case studies are success stories with the bruises airbrushed out. This one runs the other way. Kim André Irgens Nilsen, COO of Norway’s Fjordkraft Mobil, tells the unvarnished version: how an energy retailer’s mobile venture won with a preferential price, then had to […]
Customer loyalty is built, not bought – The five questions that decide whether an MVNO customer stays
Speaker preview — Kristi Brown, Managing Director, Performance Culture Consulting Kristi Brown arrives at MVNO Nation Europe 2026 in two roles: moderating the Day 1 panel on customer loyalty, and judging The Hunt on Day 2. Ahead of both, she makes a case that cuts against the way most operators talk about retention: loyalty cannot […]
The biggest opportunities and challenges for MVNOs in 2027
Speaker preview — Ulrich Weinert, Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security Every MVNO now faces the same squeeze: customers want onboarding in seconds, and fraudsters are using AI to make seconds all they need. On Day 1 of MVNO Nation Europe 2026, Ulrich Weinert, Director Product Management at Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security, takes the stage to argue that the […]
Travel, China, and Connected Cars: Where eSIM Growth Is Really Coming From
Ask four eSIM industry leaders where the market is accelerating, and you’ll get a more nuanced answer than the hype suggests. That’s exactly what happened when we brought together Redtea Mobile, Telenor Linx, Verizon and Saily for the panel session of “The Hidden Challenge of eSIM” webinar with Segron. Three growth engines stood out — […]
You Can’t Test an eSIM With a Plastic SIM: How Redtea Mobile Validates Every Batch Before It Ships
Here’s an uncomfortable fact about how eSIM testing works at most operators today: it doesn’t. Not really. The standard industry practice, as Segron‘s Steve Ornadel laid out in our recent webinar, is to take eSIM credentials, burn them onto a physical plastic SIM, slot that SIM into a multiplexer, and ship it around the world […]
Activation Is Just the Entry Point: Why eSIM Quality of Experience Decides Who Keeps Their Customers
Nailing eSIM activation used to be the goal. Get the profile downloaded, get the customer connected, job done. But as Jason Olivieri, Senior Manager for Global Roaming and New Revenue Generation at Verizon Consumer Group, put it during our recent webinar with Segron: “Activation is just the entry point. It’s an entire quality of experience […]