Google, one of the most important competitors of the Apple company, will become a mobile operator in the USA. Before you think that Google will start to create a GSM network in the USA, I will tell you that Google will become a MVNO operator, that is, a virtual mobile phone operator.
Practically Google will rent from mobile phone operators space in their networks and will sell GSM, voice and internet services, at prices, probably lower than those of the operators. Google would have already signed contracts with Sprint and T-Mobile in the US to launch its offers, so it practically has coverage in most of the country at the moment.
Sprint, of Overland Park, Kan., is the third-largest wireless carrier, while T-Mobile, of Bellevue, Wash., ranks fourth. Under separate agreements with each carrier, Google will resell service on the Sprint and T-Mobile networks, according to people familiar with the plans. Such wholesale agreements are common, essentially allowing sellers such as Google to pitch wireless service under their own brand names.
Although the decision may seem strange, those from Google enters this market in an attempt to force mobile phone operators to improve Internet browsing speeds, but to reduce their prices. For now, it is not known when Google intends to launch the network in the US or what prices it will ask for subscriptions, but it probably won't take long until we find out official details about the project.
In the past years, there was intense speculation that Apple would intend to make a similar move in the US and become an MNVO operator, but so far nothing has materialized.
