Running many brands, partners and large business customers on one BSS: tenant separation, wholesale models and account hierarchies.
Operators increasingly host other brands on their platform: sub-brands, mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) and enablers (MVNEs) who serve several MVNOs. Each needs its own products, prices, bills and customer care, while sharing the same network and BSS to keep costs down.
The same capabilities serve large enterprise customers, who need account hierarchies, cost centres, shared allowances and consolidated invoices across thousands of lines.
How much an MVNO runs itself.
| Model | MVNO runs | Host provides |
|---|---|---|
| Branded reseller | Brand and marketing | Everything else |
| Light MVNO | Brand, sales, care | BSS, network, often billing |
| Service-provider MVNO | BSS, pricing, billing | Network and core |
| Full MVNO | BSS and its own core network | Radio access only |
Each tenant is a business unit with its own catalog, tariffs, bill cycles, documents and users.
Tenant identifiers on every record, access rules in every API and separate encryption keys where required.
The host rates the tenant's usage at wholesale prices and invoices the tenant, alongside the tenant's own retail billing.
Parent and child accounts, cost centres and invoice responsibility at any level.
Virtual private networks with on-net pricing, short-code dialling and group-level discounts.
Pooled allowances and balances shared across lines, with per-member limits.
Benchmark tenant performance, churn and usage to support partner management.
Predict which business accounts are at risk from usage and ticket trends.
Generate plain-language explanations of complex enterprise invoices for care agents.
This page describes generic industry practice and public standards. It is not based on, and does not describe, any particular vendor's product or operator's systems.