Mobi, Inc. is a

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founded in 2004 and based in

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

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. The company is a member of the

Competitive Carriers Association The Competitive Carriers Association (commonly the CCA) was founded in 1992 by nine small wireless carriers in the United States as a 501(c)(6) non-profit trade association to promote the common interests of competitive, regional, and rural wirel ...

and the

Pacific Telecommunications Council The Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) is a telecommunications industry non-profit trade association representing wireline, wireless, Internet, and other information, communications, and technology companies across the forty nations tha ...

History

The company acquired wireless spectrum in the

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

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, was backed by venture capital firm M/C Partners, 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 Associated Carrier Group (ACG) is an industry association of US CDMA cellular network operators. Mission ACG's stated mission is "to benefit both its members and the consumer by facilitating efficient production and marketing of devices as well as ...

), 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 ...

, which the company voluntarily recognized despite the common trend of union busting 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