I was curious to see where in Europe MVNOs are available, where not, and to list the ones with prepaid offers. Maybe you can help me to keep the list updated.

AUSTRIA
Yesss
eety
Tele2
Schwarzfunk

BELGIUM
Dixitel
Uglyduck
Simyo
Basic by Mobistar
Tele2 Versatel
1 Mobile
NRJ Mobile
Inphony Mobile
RCSC Mobile
TMF
Ay Yildiz
Jim Mobile
United Telecom
and tons of other MVNOs for immigrants

CYPRUS
none

CZECHIA
none

DENMARK
Tele2
CBB Mobil
Telmore

ESTONIA
Tele Yks
Zorro (Bravocom)

FINLAND
Go Mobile
Saunalahti
Kolumbus (Elisa 2nd brand)
DNA (Finnet Verkot brand)

FRANCE
Virgin Mobile
Auchan
NRJ Mobile
Tele2
Breizh Mobile

GERMANY
Aldi
Penny Mobile
Debitel Light
Smobil
Rewecom
Tchibo
Blau
Simyo
Schwarzfunk
Jamba Sim
VIVA
Blauworld
Ay Yildiz
MoxMobil
(plus EasyMobile, Klarmobil, SIMply)

GREECE
Q Telecom (officially a MNO, but with almost no coverage and roaming on Vodafone)

HUNGARY
Djuice (Pannon 2nd brand)

IRELAND
none

ITALY
none

LATVIA
Amigo
Hallo
Urā
IZZI

LITHUANIA
E?ys (Omnitel 2nd brand)
BITĖ online (Bite 2nd brand)
Tele Maxima

LUXEMBOURG
Kiss (Voxmobile 2nd brand)

MALTA
none

NETHERLANDS
Lowcall.nl
EasyMobile
Simyo
UPC
Tele2
Lebara Mobile
Hi Prepaid (KPN 2nd brand)
AH Mobiel
Qick
Hema
Countdown Mobiel
Peptalk
Allo
and many more, I suppose...

POLAND
Sami swoi (Plus 2nd brand)
Heyah (Era 2nd brand)
Pop (Orange 2nd brand)

PORTUGAL
UZO (TMN 2nd brand)
Rede4 (Optimus 2nd brand)

SLOVAKIA
none

SLOVENIA
Izi Mobil

SPAIN
none

SWEDEN
Halebop (Telia 2nd brand)
Tango (Tele2 2nd brand)
Djuice (Telenor 2nd brand)
Plus many more, like:
Campuz Mobile
Dial'N Smile
Glocalnet
LunarMobil
Sense
Spray
Song
Universal Telecom
Vattenfall

UNITED KINGDOM
Virgin Mobile
Fresh
Mobile World
TESCO
M&S Mobile
easyMobile
Ventelo

Interesting effort!

A suggestion. In Greece there is actually one network that might be classified as MVNO and that is Q telecom. They use the vodafone network for most part of Greece although they show some coverage in the capital (Athens) and some parts os Thessaloniki (second largest city).

Yes, true, Q-Telecom is almost a MVNO, but they have a license and some network, even if so little... quite a strange operator...

http://www.takashimobile.com/mvno.html

This MVNO directory is free and covers the whole world :)

Yeah, I know that site, but there are several mistakes, dead operators, MVNEs and postpaid-only MVNOs, so I wanted to write a list with virtual operators offering prepaid cards in EU.

edit - actually, apologies as it appears that BT only have monthly postpaid accounts now - either they always did and my memory is defective, or they ceased prepaid - probably the former as it would go on the monthly landline bill

maybe I should delete this then
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In UK, BT Mobile has been an mvno on 3 different networks now

When British Telecom still owned O2, then it was natural that they would market mobile deals to their landline customers. When O2 was floated off separately on the stock market, they eventually drifted apart to the point where BT signed mvno deals elsewhere

But even then, private and business BT customers were on different networks to begin with. Home customers were on T-mobile. Then BT signed a deal with Vodafone for corporate customers, then in Jan last year agreed to migrate the personal ones there too.

It isn't only available to BT customers, but sold separately as well.

They recently launched so-called Fusion phones, which are GSM and landline hybrid tariff, maybe later using wi-fi and broadband/VoIP at home I think, or a cheap interim homezone tariff (not sure which)

Can't get links at the moment, as some of their site is offline - only the national network!

Here's their site:

http://www.btmobile.bt.com/

BT Fusion:

http://www.btfusionorder.bt.com/

Thanks - yes I had the links but didn't post them yet in case they had changed - they were offline an hour ago

edit - as I've put in the above post, maybe my memory was defective about them ever having prepaid, so really this shouldn't be on there anyway

I don't have a link but I was reading somewhere the other day that by the end of 2005 Q Telecom had 50% population coverage as specified as one of the conditions of being granted a license.

Ventelo UK they appear to merely be a company offering vodafone contracts for corporate pay monthly customers.

Areeba in Cyprus, also uses Cytamobile network in outlaying areas. Their own network works only in major cities. For the rest of the country it has roaming agreement.

maybe we'll have CoopMobile very soon in Italy too... :D

They're still a real network... GSMworld listed them http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/net_griq.shtml and their customer were 982.744 (december 2004). Not bad!

Anyway thanks to Wikipedia we have a nice overview about Q-Telecom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-telecom


Q-Telecom
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Q-telecom (mobile network code: 202-09) is the fourth player in mobile telephony in Greece. It is the last entrant of the market and started its operation in June 2002. The company provides a complete telecom solution and has developed a GSM, LMDS and a backbone network in Greece. It calls itself as the first and only complete and integrated telecom provider in Greece. It is popular among youngsters and the company is known for its funny low-cost TV and radio ads.
Contents


* 1 Company Profile
o 1.1 Acquistition by APAX partners and Texas Pacific Group
* 2 Retail Services
o 2.1 Mobile Telephony
+ 2.1.1 MMS, WAP, Value added services
o 2.2 Fixed Phone Services
+ 2.2.1 Q-1765 Residential and Business
+ 2.2.2 Ya! Telephone Card
o 2.3 Internet myQnet
* 3 Business Services
* 4 TV and radio campaigns
* 5 Success story
* 6 Customer Service
* 7 See also
* 8 External links


Company Profile

Q-TELECOM, initially a division of Info-Quest, is the first, Greek private integrated Operator which aims to provide combined services of mobile/fixed telephony and Internet. Focusing its commercial activities in the large urban centers, Q-TELECOM develops a second-generation mobile telephony network, with the installation of Base Stations as well as a broadband Fixed Wireless Access network, point-to-multipoint, operating at 3.5 GHz range. Simultaneously, it develops a national network with the use of leased lines and privately owned transmission systems. Also, Q-TELECOM is directly inter-connected with OTE and the three others mobile operators and has a national roaming agreement with VODAFONE. Thus, it offers, since its commercial launch, high quality voice transmission, high transfer rate of call switching and also offers pan-Hellenic coverage.

Q-TELECOM provides a wide rage of integrated telecommunications solution and services for businesses and home users. Q-TELECOM is a pioneer in the Greek market by offering, from the beginning of its launch, combined services of mobile telephony with the prefix 699 (prepaid and postpaid), SMS and fixed telephony via the Carrier Selection Code 1765. Q-TELECOM differentiates itself by providing customized services, per second billing from the first second of the call, elimination of set-up fees, mobile number selection, preferential rates with Q-Family, the lowest tarrif for SMS from the first SMS, added value services, etc.

In the first trimester of its operation, Q-TELECOM has established more than 900 selling points all over Greece, by exploiting alternative distribution channels such as ACS courier.


Acquistition by APAX partners and Texas Pacific Group
[...]
Retail Services

Mobile Telephony

Q-telecom has developed a GSM network in the 1800 band and currently covers three main urban areas of the country Athens, Thessaloniki and Larissa. The company also has a roaming agreement and covers the rest of Greece through the network of Vodafone Greece. The charges are the same for users using Q-telecoms own network (network code 202-09, network ID GR Q-TELCOM) or Vodafone's network. The company should have a 50% population coverage by the end of 2006 as it is obliged to do so by the law but it is expected that this threshold will be reached earlier and that the company's network will continue to expand beyond 50%.

Q-telecom has innovative tarrifs billing by the second with no minimum charges per call and no monthly fees both for prepaid and postpaid customers. This means that a postpaid customer will not receive a bill if he hasn't made any calls during the month. Q-telecom is as of today the cheapest prepaid mobile phone provider in Greece (compared to other companies' prices) and often makes special offers to its customers (like a 1 eurocent per message charge for messages to other Q-telecom mobile in June 2005 and 3,5 eurocents per message to all local and international destinations until September 2005). The Q1 (Q-telecom's postpaid solution) with no monthly fees and no minimum call charges is

suitable for those who speak about 70 minutes per month. Q1 users can use their mobile phone abroad taking adbantage of Q-telecom's roaming agreements with foreign networks.


Q-telecoms prefix in the Hellenic National Numbering Plan is 699 for mobile telephony. Number portability is available and another network's user can call 13822 from his mobile phone free of charge in order to get his mobile number transferred to Q-telecom.

The prepaid offer is offered as "Q card 1" and the postpaid program is called "Q1".



MMS, WAP, Value added services

The company started providing MMS in 2005 and its WAP portal and GPRS internet access solution is expected in the following months. Value added services like news, weather, ringtones, logos and others are provided through the voice-recognition enabled MyQ Voice Portal and the MyQ SIM menu.

Call notification service is also available (a service that notifies the user if he has received any calls while his phone was switched off or out of service). The Call Notification Service of Q-telecom's is innovative in the way that it can co-exist with the voicemail service.


Fixed Phone Services
[...]

Success story

Q-telecom is considered to be a success story as it is probably the only fourth mobile operator in Europe, having entered the Greek market only in 2002, that has gained an accountable market share in just 3 years of operation. Q-telecom hopes to have one million subscribers by the end of 2005.

The company marks high subscriber addition rates in its results for consecutive quarters and has managed to pass into profitability in just two and a half years following strictly its initial business plan and forecasts.

The company has recently gained interest for a share acquistition by international investors and the company has recently announced that talks are currently under way and possible results should be expected by September 2005.

Customer Service

All the services are supported by the Customer Care on a daily basis (24 hours, 365 days per year), tel (+30) 211 999 3000.

you also forgot 'talk talk' in the uk www.talktalk.co.uk (i think...could be talktalkmobile.co.uk......? brain gone!!!

they are an arm of the carphone warehouse who are also behind fresh but...

we forgot TMS, San Marino ( http://www.tms.sm ). This is NOT a real MVNO, but they use the infrastructure of TIM for their customer. It's a quite strange operator, RSM's Governiement has a special commercial agreement with TIM for a different taxation (and tariff plan) for RSM citizens. Only postpaid service. They use 2 series of Tim business numbers (335.733xxxx and 335.734xxxx) with italian international prefix (+39) and not their (+378).

Well, San Marino is NOT in European Union but Tim yes... :P