Capital City Service — a wholesale voice and A2P SMS carrier with heritage dating to 1996 — has expanded into the MVNO space through a new joint venture: Septoo, co-founded with Acqua Telecom. The venture is designed to make branded mobile network launches accessible to any organisation with a community, a brand and an ambition to offer mobile services under its own name.
Why this matters for the market
Launching an MVNO has traditionally demanded deep technical expertise, significant capital investment, and lengthy negotiation with carrier and regulatory stakeholders. Septoo removes those barriers. It combines CCS's carrier-grade voice and A2P SMS backbone with Acqua Telecom's service-enablement platform to deliver a complete, managed MVNO-as-a-service. The result is a route to market measured in weeks rather than years.
CCS brings to the venture a network that carries more than two billion voice minutes and one billion messages per year, with 400+ direct interconnections, reach across 190+ countries, and a core hub in Frankfurt engineered for 99.999% availability. Quality is monitored in real time across ASR, ACD, PDD and MOS metrics, with active anti-fraud controls in place. Septoo layers on SIM and eSIM provisioning, integrated billing, real-time analytics and 5G-ready connectivity.
- Full-stack MVNO launch: brand design through to live subscribers
- SIM and eSIM, billing, analytics and 5G-ready connectivity included
- CCS carrier-grade voice and A2P SMS backbone as the network foundation
- Supported verticals: fan, lifestyle, diaspora and IoT MVNOs
- Live examples: Celtic Mobile, Hibs Connect (Hibernian FC), Rovers Connect (Blackburn Rovers FC)
The Septoo venture reflects a broader shift in the MVNO market toward community-focused, purpose-built mobile brands. CCS and Acqua Telecom are jointly positioned to support that shift at scale. To learn more about launching a branded mobile network, visit /mvno or contact the team.