Virtuser Virtual Mobile, Private Mobile and IoT Consulting Services for over a quarter of a Century
About Us
Some of our Mobile Firsts:
- the first MVNO consultancy in the world, created the world’s first fully cloud enabled MVNO, MVNE, MVNA, MVNx platform
- built the world’s first fully cloud Mobile end-to-end platform, have
- Created the most flexible Private Mobile Network platforms in the world and
- enabled many of the first and most innovative IoT services
- Rolled out the worlds first global eSIM platform
and we are
- The most trusted expert advisor and supplier of virtual mobile (cellular) and related technology services for new, innovative and “difficult stuff” in mobile since 2001: MVNOs, IoT, FMC, and now Asset Tracking and Private 5G.
We also walk the talk and:
- Run our own eSIM and MVNO
- Run our own IT services
- Built our own EV and battery diagnostics as there wasn’t one for us as we also
- Build, modify and make “connected” our own and 3rd party vehicles
The name Virtuser comes from Virt(ual) User (of technology). Way back when we working on the first MVNOs, VISP, and shared servers to enable what we now know as cloud we realised that businesses and consumers alike want to use technology but not necessarily own it, or at least the need to select, run and maintain it: We are so cloud and virtual we named ourselves after it’s starting point: a virtuser!
Overview
We are a London-based mobile (cellular) core & VAS services and professional services business consultancy firm since 2003
We have done IoT since it was called M2M and used SMS to send tachograph and other vehicle and driver related “data”.
We have worked on key MVNOs since the very first ones, and all the ones we launched are still in business, many decades later.
We started doing FMC and won a DTI innovation award for testing the first mobile calls over bluetooth in wifi TWO DECADES ago!
We are now pushing the envelope again with DSIT and major IT and mobile companies in Private 5G and CBRS.
We are also pushing the boundaries of sustainability, using renewable energy where we can and making mobile services more power efficient.
One of our Mobile Firsts
We were the first, with part government funding, and still leaders in renewable mobile MNO, MVNO and renewable and sustainable Private 5G, Private LTE networks and the creator of the already iconic #NetworkOnWheels
| ‘Virtuser Business Comms Ltd’ is named directly as a consortium partner on the ‘One Western O-RAN (Bath)’ project – £9,910,790 DSIT funding, partners including West of England Combined Authority, Bath & NorthEast Somerset Council, Shropshire Council, Worcestershire Council, Cardiff Council and University of Lancaster. The page states: ‘Systems Integrator Virtuser will provide electro/mechanical design aimed at reducing size, weight, power consumption and visual impact.’ |
Our People
Meet key team members
Marcus Sly
eSIM, MDM, Devices
Jose Luis Rabadan
eSIM, Public Wi-Fi
Iain Cheyne
Process, Customer Journey
Careers
Our Key Strengths
This is a big statement, but a true one, and after two decades of asking why that is we always get the same answer from ourselves and our customers: Experience; we know and cover every aspect of the MVNO, from core and SIMs, to Agreements and processes, to managing Change, growth, user experience, marketing, all the way to expansion, sale, purchase, exit. Expand to IoT, new verticals, new markets, migrations... we have done them all and rolled up our sleeves to all aspects of the MVNO.
We roll up our sleeves and do tech, we don't just talk about industry buzz - we are usually driving innovation before it becomes industry buzz - if you want first hand experience and expertise from doing; then you want to talk to Virtuser.
We have been doing this for over two decades, in which time we have chaired or presented at all the key conferences, launched many of the key winners, walked away from the losers, started the first blogs, written the first analyst reports and more...
Every MVNO We launched is still an MVNO
This is a big statement, but a true one, and after two decades of asking why every MVNO we ever launched, upgraded, build a core for, etc is still in business, we always get the same answer from ourselves and our customers: Experience; we know and cover every aspect of the MVNO, from core and SIMs, to MVNO Agreements and MVNO processes, to managing MVNO Change, growth, Mobile User Experience, MVNO marketing, all the way to MVNO expansion, MVNO sale, purchase of MVNOs, MVNO exits, etc. We can then help MVNOs expand to IoT, new mobile verticals, new MVNO markets, MVNO Platform migrations… we have done them all and rolled up our sleeves to all aspects of the MVNO. We also plug the gaps that nobody has a solution for. We built turnkey Mobile MVNO Apps and MVNO ecommerce solutions integrating MNO APIs and MVNO APIs to get customers to market quicker and more effectively. Finally we usually stay on and help our MVNOs with key roles that would be impossible to fill or just not cost effective to fill with permanent in-house staff.
Government backed and funded 5G Innovation
Government-funded, not just self-declared: named DSIT consortium partner, £9.9m Open Networks Ecosystem award, 2023–2025.https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-networks-ecosystem-competition-successful-projects/open-networks-ecosystem-competition-successful-projects
We stay ahead of the MVNO game
We were the first to do light MVNOs and full MVNOs, then Hybrid MVNOs, then the first to the first cloud MVNOs and now we are the first to take the next steps beyond cloud MVNO to distributed Cloud MVNO.
The same in IoT: we were first to cloud IoT end to end, we did M2M via SMS before most people even know what M2M was, and now we have taken the next steps to distributed Cloud IoT, Software Defined Vehicle Connectivity, Mobile asset management and more.
A focus on YOUR needs, not what we sell
We have done it all in the last two decades: the first Mobile Apps before Mobile app stores existed (j2me apps for Nokia), android MVNO apps, iPhone MVNO apps, Mobile widgets, Mobile web apps; MVNOS; turnkey MNOs, Full Ericsson, Nokia, etc Cores; smaller provider Cores; the first Cloud MVNEs, the fist cloud MVNOs, the first SIP in MVNOs; FMC with major suppliers, IMS & VoLTE with major suppliers, with open source; Private 5G and CBRS as well, oh and we are working on the next generation of eSIMs with major vendors and the GSMA, as yes, you got it – we work across all suppliers and more devices from IoT to devices that anybody… and so on short: We are here to provide you a solution that works for you. Most, sadly, are trying to sell what they did last, as that is all they know, or worse; what gives them the highest commission… what works for you?
An opportunity for impact: make that change
We do everything from hard MVNO tech, difficult Mobile IoT tech, to clever Mobile and MVNO marketing, Mobile sales acceleration and MVNO purchase and MVNO sale of acquisitions to the customer journeys and processes that make these all possible in the background… and the MVNO change management and mobile value chain change management that goes with this. There are many who know their part of the MVNO puzzle, but Mobile and MVNO change management requires full understanding all the parts of the MVNO puzzle – ask yourself; do you want a solution, series of solutions, or an MVNO integration?
A truly global perspective: digital MVNO transformation
We have worked, lived and launched big and small, innovative and old, migrated, sold, acquired, advised MVNO across the globe. We have taken all the ethnic MVNO operators into new markets and done the first MVNO migrations from one MNO to another MNO, from light MVNO to full MVNO, full MVNO to hybrid MVNO and more. We now help MNOs, MVNOs, IoT providers and Small Cell providers be more global with international roaming and travel SIMs and multi IMSI core and SIM / eSIM enablement: You cannot enable Mobile digital transofrmation if you have not digitally transformed the way you work and your MVNO or IoT systems…