Mavenir and TextNow Win MVNOs World Award for Real-Time Entitlement Control
Event summary
- Mavenir and TextNow jointly won the Best MVNO and Industry Collaboration award at the MVNOs World Awards in Amsterdam on June 8, 2026.
- TextNow serves over 10 million monthly active users with a flexible freemium model.
- Mavenir's integrated BSS, Converged Charging System (CCS), Packet Core, and IMS enabled real-time entitlement control, boosting eSIM activations from 2% to 94% within six months.
- Paid wireless subscribers at TextNow more than doubled year over year following the deployment.
The big picture
The award highlights the growing importance of real-time entitlement control in the MVNO sector, particularly for ad-supported and freemium models. Mavenir's integrated platform demonstrates the potential of cloud-native solutions to transform MVNO operations, aligning with broader industry trends toward automation and AI-driven network management. The collaboration underscores the strategic shift toward flexible, scalable architectures that can handle dynamic customer needs at scale.
What we're watching
- Scalability Impact
- How Mavenir's architecture will affect TextNow's ability to sustain rapid user growth and flexible service models.
- Market Expansion
- Whether the success of this collaboration will lead to similar deployments with other MVNOs.
- Technological Adoption
- The pace at which cloud-native, open network software becomes the standard for complex digital MVNOs.
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