Noverca

Founded in 2008, the company was born from an industrial collaboration started between the Acotel Group and the Intesa Sanpaolo banking group, which subsequently left the company in May 2013.[2][5]

The name "Nòverca" comes from the crasis between NOVità and ricERCA. The logo is a stylization of the name Nòverca with the "o" representing a little man making a phone call.[6]

The prefixes of the Nòverca SIMs, called Extended SIM 2.0, belong to the fifth decade of 350 (i.e. 350–5). In the period prior to the conversion into Full MVNO, the prefixes issued belonged to the seventh decade of 370 (i.e. 370–7) as they derive from those of which TIM (support operator) is the assignee for its ESP MVNOs.

The debut on the market took place on 30 March 2009. The offer, initially dedicated to consumer customers only, was extended from May 2011 to business customers as well.[7]

The marketing of the Nòverca SIM card was made available not only from the operator's Website, but also from the Terrecablate website and the Rabona Mobile Website (the latter sold with ad hoc options), also through the SISAL and Lottomatica points of sale through the purchase of a PIN code donated to your order on the Website itself, in the absence of payment by credit card.

The available charging methods were:

• from a mobile phone, using the top-up code that can be purchased at the SISAL and Lottomatica Servizi points;
• with mobile banking services;
• at the ATMs of the banks of the Intesa Sanpaolo group;
• from the Website by credit card.

On 9 January 2015, Telecom Italia and Nòverca announced the transfer of approximately 170,000 active Nòverca consumer customers to TIM following Nòverca's decision to focus solely on Mobile Virtual Network Aggregator activities, integrating the already present activity from Mobile Virtual Network Enabler.[8]

From 1 February 2015, by virtue of this agreement, all Nòverca customers automatically became TIM customers, however being able to continue to use Nòverca services without any changes until 7 May 2015. All customers were given the opportunity to go to TIM points of sale between February 4, 2015, and May 2, 2015, to carry out number portability on preferential terms on a new TIM SIM and continue to use mobile radio services at practically unchanged economic conditions even after the definitive cessation of services on the Nòverca SIM without prejudice to the customer's option to carry out portability to any other operator under current conditions, or to withdraw entirely and without cost from the contract for the supply of mobile radio services.[9]

On 7 May 2015, Nòverca stopped providing its mobile and personal communication services to consumer and business users, but continued to provide mobile communications services for all existing and future contracts with the world of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) as a supplier of Mobile Virtual Network Aggregator (MVNA) and Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) services.

On 1 November 2016 Noverca was sold to the Telecom Italia Group,[10] and, in addition to continuing the activities of MVNE/MVNA, on 29 March 2017 it launched the operator Kena Mobile, taking advantage of the TIM network.[11]

Kena Mobile

Kena Mobile is a mobile telephony service offered by the Italian Mobile Virtual Network Operator Noverca, belonging to the Telecom Italia Group, and operating on the TIM network.[3][4]

Kena Mobile SIM

The service was launched for private customers only on March 29, 2017, using TIM's GSM-UMTS network. The name "Kena" comes from the Polynesian mythological warrior of the same name.[12][11][13][14]

On July 14, 2018, Kena Mobile decided to create an offer for the home by announcing the "Kena Casa" service.[15] At the moment the service is only available in some regions of Italy and offers the possibility of connecting via Wi-Fi and surfing without limits and without a fixed-line, using LTE. Speeds are 30 Mbit/s download and 3 Mbit/s upload.[16]

The service takes care of providing FWA Internet access through the use of specific frequencies for WiMAX included in the spectrum between 3.4 and 3.6 GHz, but given the lack of these frequencies by Noverca, the company had to turn to a third party for its network service, whose choice fell on Linkem.[17]

• Acotel Group
• Intesa Sanpaolo
• Telecom Italia
• Telecom Italia Mobile

• Media related to Noverca at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website