{"id":309460,"date":"2025-10-31T01:26:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/telecom-business\/operator-news\/19275-nigeria-s-first-mvno-arrives-after-a-long-wait.html"},"modified":"2025-10-31T01:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:26:04","slug":"nigerias-first-mvno-arrives-after-a-long-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=309460","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s first MVNO arrives \u2013 after a long wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/images\/stories\/Places\/Lagos_market_600.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It may come as a surprise to some readers to hear that, more than three years after the telecommunications regulator <a href=\"https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/telecom-business\/telecom-regulation\/13235-ncc-lays-groundwork-for-introduction-of-mvnos-in-nigeria.html\"  rel=\"noopener\">laid the groundwork<\/a> for MVNOs to come to market, only this week is Nigeria preparing to welcome its first virtual mobile operator (MVNO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may come as a surprise to some readers to hear that, more than three years after the telecommunications regulator laid the groundwork for MVNOs to come to market, only this week is Nigeria preparing to welcome its first virtual mobile operator (MVNO&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5043],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operators"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309461,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309460\/revisions\/309461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}