Mobi, Inc. is a

wireless carrier A mobile network operator (MNO), also known as a wireless service provider, wireless carrier, cellular company, or mobile network carrier, is a provider of wireless communications services that owns or controls all the elements necessary to sell ...

founded in 2004 and based in

Honolulu Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island ...

. The company provides service on each of the major islands of

Hawaiʻi Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state ...

. The company is a member of the Competitive Carriers Association and the Pacific Telecommunications Council.

History

The company acquired wireless spectrum in the PCS band in 2004 and launched service covering Hawaiʻi in 2005. The company, then doing business as Mobi PCS, along with

Metro PCS Metro by T-Mobile (formerly known as MetroPCS and also known simply as Metro) is an American prepaid mobile phone, prepaid wireless service provider and brand owned by T-Mobile US. It previously operated the fifth largest mobile telecommunicat ...

, was backed by venture capital firm

M/C Partners M/C Partners is a private equity firm focused on growth equity investments in emerging companies in the media and communications industries. M/C invests in early, mid, and late stage companies as well as turnarounds and buyouts in its sectors ...

, with both disrupting the market in their respective regions by offering no contract, no credit check, unlimited wireless service long before those became widespread options in the wireless industry. By 2008, Mobi had opened eleven retail and seventy dealer locations throughout Hawaiʻi. While the company launched with CDMA service (along with other members of the Associated Carrier Group), it later transitioned to offering LTE and 5G wireless services.

Labor relations

In 2022, its frontline and digital workers in Hawaiʻi, on the mainland United States, in Canada, and in México unionized with the

Communications Workers of America The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, representing about 700,000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico). The union has 27 loc ...

, which the company voluntarily recognized despite the common trend of

union busting Union busting is a range of activities undertaken to disrupt or prevent the formation of trade unions or their attempts to grow their membership in a workplace. Union busting tactics can refer to both legal and illegal activities, and can range ...

in its industry.

References

External links

mobi.com
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Mobi
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* * Mobile phone companies of the United States Telecommunications companies established in 2004 2004 establishments in Hawaii Companies based in Honolulu {{Wireless-stub