Yackie Telecom Inc is a licensed mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that provides leading worldwide mobile communication services with its own network infrastructure and SIM card.

Pretty Cool Huh?

Im pretty sure someone is reading this post scratching their head saying: “Ummm… so what does that mean?”

Well my confused friend, that means that Yackie Mobile is a company that provides mobile phone service but does not have its own licensed frequency allocation of radio spectrum, nor does it necessarily have all of the infrastructure required to provide mobile telephone service.

There is a distinction between MVNOs and service providers. MVNOs refer to mobile operators who are not licensed radio frequency holders and lease radio frequency from MNOs in order to set up their mobile virtual networks. By these virtual networks they act similar as genuine MNOs in the sense that they can have their own SIM-cards which are different from the SIM-cards of the MNOs who lease those frequencies and they can also conclude interconnection agreements with MNOs or MVNOs.

Yackie Mobile 101: Telecom Talk

The world of Telecom Jargon can sometimes be difficult to decipher. To aid the inexperienced world traveler in understanding my post content I put together a Telecom glossary. Here are some of the most commonly used and misunderstood acronyms:

1. MVNO=Mobile Virtual Network Operator
2. VOIP=Voice Over Internet Protocol
3. IP=Internet Protocol Address
4. SIM=Subscriber Identity Module
5. GSM=Global System for Mobile Communications
6. SIP=Single Internet Protocol
7. IVR=Interactive Voice Response