Mobi (company)

For other uses, see mobi.
mobi, Inc.
Industrywireless
PredecessorsmobiPCS LLC
Coral Wireless LLC
FoundedJune 30, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-06-30) in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Headquarters
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
,
United States
Area served
Hawaiʻi
Key people
Justen Burdette, CEO[1]
Chi Nguyễn, COO
Toni Paracuelles, CSO
Meredith Mawhar, CFO
Brad Coates, CPO
Brandsmobi
mobiPCS
Serviceswireless telecommunications services
Number of employees
120[2]
Websitemobi.com

mobi, Inc. is a wireless carrier founded in 2004 and based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. The company provides service on each of the major islands of Hawaiʻi, as well as on the mainland United States through roaming agreements with other carriers.[3]

mobi is an operator member of the GSMA,[4] the Competitive Carriers Association (the CCA), the CTIA, and the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC).[5] Since 2022, workers at the company are represented by and members of the Communications Workers of America (the CWA).[6]

The company reached a network sharing agreement with Verizon Wireless in 2015,[7] with Sprint in 2019, and later announced a nationwide 5G partnership with T-Mobile in 2023, allowing it to continue to operate as an mobile network operator in Hawaiʻi but as a "full" mobile virtual network operator outside of its own footprint.[8]

In late 2022, mobi became one of the first wireless carriers in the world to migrate its mobile core to the public cloud, through a partnership with AWS and startup WG2 (since acquired by Cisco).[9] The following year, the carrier launched a CBRS network using technologies from Federated Wireless.[10]

  1. ^ Hill, Tiffany (Jan 25, 2019), "Entrepreneurs & Investors Convene at Annual East Meets West Conference", Hawaii Business, Honolulu, Hawaii, retrieved Feb 13, 2019
  2. ^ "Mobi to expand cell service to neighbor isles". archives.starbulletin.com.
  3. ^ "Mobi PCS adds cell sites throughout Hawaii". bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
  4. ^ https://www.gsma.com/membership/m/mobi-inc/ [bare URL]
  5. ^ "Mobi Relaunches With Simple, Affordable $9.99 Wireless Plan". bloomberg.com.
  6. ^ "Local telecommunications company Mobi unionizes with support of CEO". hawaiipublicradio.org. 14 September 2022.
  7. ^ "Verizon Wireless consumes Golden State Cellular and Mobi PCS | Fierce Network". 21 April 2014.
  8. ^ https://www.lightreading.com/service-provider-cloud/mobi-in-hawaii-to-go-nationwide-with-new-cloud-based-mobile-core/d/d-id/782744? [bare URL]
  9. ^ "Hawaii's Mobi strikes deals with WG2, Federated Wireless". 20 January 2023.
  10. ^ "Mobi signs deal with Federated for 5G CBRS, launches pilot in continental US". 17 January 2023.