Own the operator, not just the brand
The platform behind 15 live MVNOs and 3 MVNE deployments, running all three roles from one stack.
Delivered projects and production load, not roadmap ambitions — the reason an MVNO business case survives contact with the host operator.
Reviewed by Alexander Donskoy, Sales Director, Avante · Last reviewed 2026-09
21
BSS projects delivered
15
live MVNOs on Avante
3
MVNE platform deployments
12M+
subscribers served
150M+
load proven in testing
2006
delivering BSS since
Avante project data. Load figure from platform load testing, not a single live deployment.
An MVNO is a commercial business running on someone else's radio. How much of it is yours depends on where the platform boundary sits: below the line the host carries the traffic, above it you own the product, the subscriber and the margin. Billing, charging, catalogue, CRM, provisioning and partner management are the band in the middle.
Yours
brand, product, margin
Interface
One open API — REST, asynchronous events and WebSocket, so your systems integrate once
Avante MVNx Suite
delivered, integrated and operated by Avante
Interface
Standard telecom interfaces — provisioning, charging, mediation, SIM and eSIM, number portability, roaming
Host operator
coverage and network
01Banks, retailers, public bodies, ISPs and ICT providers that want to own the product, the subscriber data and the margin rather than take a reseller deal off the host's shelf. Start Medium and grow to Full without a second migration.
02MNO wholesale teams, enablers and aggregators that need one multi-tenant BSS to onboard partners, rate wholesale traffic and settle with each tenant, instead of building a bilateral integration for every MVNO.
03Live MVNOs whose current host cannot give them the tariff logic, the data or the channels the next product needs. Migrate the base to your own BSS in one window, keep history and active plans, and carry on growing.
The operating model decides who owns the subscriber, the data and the margin. It is a commercial decision rather than a technical one, and it belongs before the platform shortlist.
| Dimension | Reseller / Light | Medium (own BSS) | Full MVNO | MVNE / MVNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who owns billing, catalogue, CRM | host or enabler | you, on Avante | you, on Avante | you, for every tenant |
| Who owns subscriber data | host or enabler | you | you | you and your tenants |
| Core network elements (HLR/HSS, packet core) | host | host, via interfaces | yours or via partners | host or yours |
| Own numbering and interconnect | no | in some markets | yes | yes |
| Typical time to commercial launch* | weeks–months | 4–6 months | 8–10 months | 6–12 months |
| Path on Avante | — | Medium → Full on one BSS, no re-migration | — | tenants onboard on one platform |
Avante planning assumptions from delivered projects; the clock starts once the host agreement and the legal framework are confirmed. Model names vary by market.
One product catalogue, one charging engine, one customer record. The modules deploy as a whole or only in the scope your model needs.
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04Durations are taken from delivered projects. Host and legal readiness is the critical path; Avante supports that track but cannot decide it.
Stage
01Discovery
MVNO model, plans, segments, service model and the target IT landscape.
02Host and legal · critical path
Host agreement, numbering, SIM supply, regulatory approvals. Owned by you, the host and the regulator; Avante supports the negotiation and the technical annex.
03BSS platform
Platform deployment and a working test environment.
04Integrations
Your app and channels, the host operator, payments, KYC, number portability.
05Launch
Pilot, Friends & Family, then commercial start.
Stages overlap. The bars show indicative placement on a 16–26 week plan, not contractual dates.
One discovery workshop settles the financial model, the segments and offers, and the target operating model.
Wholesale terms, coverage, interfaces and SLAs. We know what the host will ask for and what the contract has to pin down.
Packet core, HLR/HSS, eSIM and SMS platforms when your model needs them, scoped and integrated with the BSS.
Year one as a managed service if you have no in-house BSS team, with 24×7 support from launch. On-premises, private cloud or SaaS, including an OPEX-based launch.
01a mobile line that grows the core product: card spend to data, salary customers to plans, telecom signals for risk.
02shopping earns data and points bring the bill down, while the store and the app become the sales channel.
03identity, rules and records inside your perimeter; coverage from the host.
04B2B and B2G mobile with sponsored billing, employee limits and enterprise logic that standard MVNE setups do not offer.
Also on Avante: a leading banking MVNO delivered in six months to the bank's security and integration standards; a unified BSS for a leading operator in Kazakhstan; BSS for a private LTE network.
Brilliantel
Africa
B2B and B2G segments with sponsored billing and enterprise product structures beyond standard MVNE setups. Delivered on an OPEX model.
VENTAmobile
Europe
sponsored roaming, multi-IMSI, M2M and eSIM services, plus wholesale voice and SMS transit.
LANCK
Europe + Africa
MVNO launches, charging and billing, and interconnect management across several European and African markets.
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An MVNO sells mobile service to end customers under its own brand without owning spectrum or radio network. An MVNE provides the platform (BSS/OSS, SIM management, interconnect and operations) that one or many MVNOs run on. An MVNA buys wholesale capacity from a host operator in bulk and re-wholesales it to several smaller MVNOs, usually on an MVNE platform. Avante supplies the BSS/OSS for all three roles.
No. Avante is a BSS/OSS vendor. We supply and operate the platform; the host operator provides coverage, and network elements your model needs (packet core, HLR/HSS, eSIM platform) come from the host or from our partners, integrated by us. The subscriber data, the product logic and the margin stay with you.
A Medium MVNO (own BSS, own commercial logic) takes four to six months from the point the host agreement and the legal framework are confirmed. Platform readiness on its own is about three months; a Full MVNO with its own core elements takes eight to ten. These are planning assumptions from delivered projects, not guaranteed dates. Integrations and host schedules set the pace.
Yes, and without migrating subscribers twice. Medium and Full run on the same Avante BSS; moving up adds network elements and interfaces, not a new platform. A delivered reference moved from Medium to Full and to a multi-host setup on the same stack.
All of them: reseller and light, medium, full, and multi-tenant MVNE and MVNA operation. A reseller or light model rarely needs its own BSS, and we say so. Our customers are the operators that want to own product, data and margin, and the enablers that host them.
On your premises or in a data centre you approve, in a private cloud, or as a managed service. Government and banking customers typically run inside their own perimeter; enterprise launches have used an OPEX-based model.
Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, with delivered projects in the EU, South Africa and Kazakhstan among others. Number portability, KYC and regulatory reporting are configured per market.
Thirty minutes with a team behind 21 BSS and MVNO implementations, and three outputs: the host-side assumptions to validate first, where BSS, OCS and CRM responsibility starts and stops, and a minimum MVP scope for go-live.
Book a 30-minute readiness call. You leave with a target model, a scope boundary and a first-cut MVP, plus an honest view of whether Avante is the right fit.
