Our Technology

We always knew we wanted a single, centrally managed platform that could span the globe and bring the benefits of our approach to future MVNOs.

We designed an enabling platform that could host an unlimited number of MVNOs, anywhere around the world. The platform would offer complete flexibility, so each MVNO could define its own processes and services. And be so robust that our clients would thank us for our foresight, while their customers would never give the technology a second thought.

Our platform offers all standard (and many valued-added) mobile services:

  • Voice, SMS, roaming, voicemail, and mobile data services
  • Flexible and innovative tariff management
  • Self-care using Web, voice, SMS, or USSD
  • SIM based toolkits
  • Call-back, Call-screening, Mobile VPN
  • Billing and invoicing, payment handling, financial reporting
  • Complete customer care (CRM)

Our first MVNO was a joint venture with Carrefour back in 2006. Belgium was the perfect first market: multilingual, high mobile penetration, and with tight margins that forced us to minimise costs right from the start. It was a success from day one and led to new MVNOs in other countries both with Carrefour and other clients.

How our platform can help you

With so many MVNO launches behind us, we’ve got the process down to a fine art. So whether you’re planning a new MVNO or looking for a more efficient system for your current operation, we can do it quickly—without cutting corners.

With our platform, you can be confident that you have the support you need even if your customer base grows beyond your expectations. And because we run MVNOs around the world on the same central platform, you benefit from economies of scale.

MVNO hosting

Our prime role is hosting MVNOs on our platform to the advantage of both MVNOs and their network partners. Today, our platform in Brussels is integrated simultaneously with five Mobile Network Operators and hosts 10 MVNOs in Belgium, Italy, Malta, Oman, Poland and Taiwan.

Each MVNO is able to offer a unique set of services, tariffs, promotions and languages. On our side, we separate each MVNO by a ‘Chinese wall’ both technically and in terms of process management. We own our technology, a complete solution which gets you operational quickly and cost-effectively. We charge just three types of fees: for initial setup; per gross add (activation); and per active subscriber. These fees vary depending on the volume, location, complexity of project.

Effortel works with the top carriers around the world including KPN Belgium); Vodafone Italia; Polkomtel (Poland); Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan); Nawras (Oman).

Platform essentials

Our mobile service platform forms the backbone of an MVNO network, connecting all MVNO back-office systems with the MNO partner.

Designed to work with any protocol on any type of network—including CDMA, GSM, WiMax—the platform can scale up to 10 million subscribers.

A built-in suite of tools lets you connect with your customers fast without having to rely on the vendors who supplied the network equipment.

  • Service Manager runs the powerful and versatile Tariff Engine that gives you total control of pricing and promotions
  • Service Studio is a full-featured GUI that lets you quickly design services such as IVR scripts and debug them in real time
  • Web Customer Care has customisable interfaces that provide online customer care services easily and efficiently
  • Report Generator generates standard and MVNO-defined reports that management, marketing, engineering and accounting need to make informed decisions about system set-up, control and maintenance
  • System Manager gives complete control over all network hardware to provide real-time monitoring and system analysis as well as a variety of operational measurements
  • User Manager allows the MVNO to create extremely granular role-based security assignments for users, and to log all related actions

The beating heart of our hardware is hosted centrally and securely by our partner in Belgium, Level 3, in their Brussels facility. Our platform has fully redundant links to local sites and equipment across the globe, guaranteeing a minimum of 99.999% uptime. Level 3 can boast zero downtime since its creation more than 10 years ago.

We host some elements locally with trusted partners, such as Interxion (Spain), TeleHouse (France), and Netscalibur (Italy).

Now learn more about our platform.