An introduction to alternate mobile service providers in the U.S., and to the awesomeness that is Mint SIM.
A lot of our jobs at Windows Central involve issuing recommendations to people: favorite laptop, favorite tablet.
While it's relatively easy to list off the benefits of products you can hold in your hand, it's less easy to recommend mobile carriers. There are so many factors that go into deciding which carrier to sign up for — location, budget, and individual needs. In the U.S, four carriers dominate the industry, and the airwaves — T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon — but thankfully there are alternatives, many of which are built on the foundations of those incumbents.
One such alternative is Mint SIM, which uses T-Mobile's growing 4G LTE network to do something wonderful: eliminate the overhead, the confusion, and in many cases the "loudness," of the network it connects to. But to talk about Mint SIM, we have to talk about its place in the U.S. market, and how such a company came to be. To do that, we have to use a term that we'll quickly leave behind: MVNO, or Mobile Virtual Network Operator.
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