Apple aims to join Google with its own mobile service

Speaking to Business Insider, “telecom sources” are also reporting that Apple is in talks with telecommunication companies in Europe as well, while it has been in talks with US carriers for years now.

According to a report published on Monday, Apple is in talks to provide talk, text and data to iPhone and iPad users through an MVNO that it would start up in the U.S. and Europe.

Here’s how an Apple MVNO will work: Instead of paying your carrier every month, you’ll pay Apple directly for data, calls, and texts. The telecom companies auction capacity to Apple so that it can run the service. Telecoms sources say that Apple is looking long-term with its MVNO, and could take at least five years to fully launch the service. “He wanted to replace carriers”, Stanton said of Jobs, the Apple founder and CEO who died October. 5 after a battle with cancer. That obviously didn’t come to pass, as Apple teamed up with AT&T to release the original iPhone, but a new report claims that Apple hasn’t given up on its desire for an iPhone network.

With Apple and Google already competing in smartphone market, it’s endlessly intriguing to imagine a scenario where the two tech giants begin competing as rival carriers. Apple then provides you with everything you used to get from your carrier, but the Apple SIM switches between carriers to get the best service. Apple has already spent years talking with carriers over an Apple mobile network. Project Fi uses a special SIM card inside the Nexus 6 to help the handset choose between the T-Mobile and Sprint network, depending on which one has the stronger signal at the moment.

Interestingly enough, another report from earlier today pointed to Apple rolling out a version of Siri that would transcribe user voicemails, a feature which some believe also points to Apple’s MVNO aspirations.

But not every MVNO is successful, however.