It's the only
way wireless operators will be able to increase revenue.
Not exact matches
Only one thing is really standing in the
way at this point: «The biggest challenge to adopting that is really for [
wireless]
operators to come up with a good
way to manage your plan, because clearly you don't want to pay another $ 50 a month just to get a SIM card.»
Zero - rating is a
way for
wireless firms to separate themselves from competitors, and thus increase competition among
wireless operators.
The Internet company has struck a mobile virtual network
operator (MVNO) deal with Sprint and T - Mobile to resell their
wireless services and let the two carriers carry Google's traffic over their own networks, albeit reluctantly for Sprint, whose decision to join the agreement went all the
way up to Masayoshi Son, CEO of Sprint owner Softbank.
It's why the largest
wireless operators are spending millions of dollars each year in lobbying to make sure rules for new spectrum auctions are written in a
way that favors their interests, and it's why there has been so much wheeling and dealing around Verizon's move to buy
wireless spectrum from a consortium of cable
operators.