T-Mobile UK and Orange UK start merging, ready to wipe out rivals

08 September, 2009
Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom announced today they will be combining T-Mobile UK and Orange UK into a new joint-venture company. The resulting entity will become the UK's leading mobile carrier...

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  • nicko
  • 4gN
  • 11 Oct 2009

me, 13 Sep 2009i think its tmobile's choice to merge with orange because t... moreT-Mobile has the lowest dropped calls out of any other cellphone provider out there and has the #1 customer service 8 out of 9 times by J.D. Power. Do your homework before you start talking false information. T-Mobile is slowly building to be the biggest U.S. Company as well.

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    • Anonymous
    • mse
    • 05 Oct 2009

    What Muppet has just slatted O2 coverage - O2 is the only UK network that works correctly and has great - no, excellent UK coverage..

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      • Anonymous
      • mCS
      • 14 Sep 2009

      18 months till they merge, no point of discussing it now!

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        • me
        • mXE
        • 13 Sep 2009

        i think its tmobile's choice to merge with orange because tmobile is just losing money. Though their deals were good or even better than others; however that just it! coverage is bad - A lot of people travel you know and their signal is just not consistent, customer aftercare is ok to nearly being bad... and their brand awareness isnt penetrating the market really. For orange their ok.not bad - not great either. Though hopefully this merge situation should stir up the competition.

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          • mee
          • MVg
          • 11 Sep 2009

          i think its a gud idea..tmobile have good phones and orange have great tarif offers..so the joining will be a big success and a win win situation for us and the companies..goodluck..tmobile & orange

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            • Anonymous
            • Ian
            • 10 Sep 2009

            who would want to merge with o2 when they have the worst UK coverage?

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              • Anonymous
              • Ian
              • 10 Sep 2009

              voda are only doing with o2 wat theyve already done with orange which is network share

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                • bob
                • pJI
                • 09 Sep 2009

                they be called o-mobile lol lol
                aslong as the phones dont have the stupid orange type software on it i dont care

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                  • Anonymous
                  • nbu
                  • 09 Sep 2009

                  Anonymous, 09 Sep 2009hmm~~wonder what will happen to t-mobile USA lol, i work fo... moreIf N900 will be exclusive for Tmo in the US, then it's pretty big news. That will make a bunch of new customers.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • 476
                    • 09 Sep 2009

                    hmm~~wonder what will happen to t-mobile USA lol, i work for em, i would like to see some big change cus they sucks now

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                      • santino
                      • D8X
                      • 09 Sep 2009

                      o2 will not merge with voda fone o2 owns roughly the same amount of percentage as the Tmobile and Orange hybrid so for o2 to merge with the 2nd largest network vodafone would cause o2 or vodafone to have majority of the mobile market and by trading laws o2 is not allowed to do so as all companies deserve a fair go in the market place

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                        • Anonymous
                        • mAt
                        • 09 Sep 2009

                        i think they're trying to cut costs, win win situation for them both and not to forget to introduce sub monopoly price plans... sigh we know what that means for the average mobile user~

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                          • danman7200
                          • M31
                          • 09 Sep 2009

                          O2 and Vodafone 3g coverage will look rather poultry in fact. I imagine this merger will bring HSDPA coverage on one operator to about 98% of the population. I know, just for this reason I'd be willing to switch. Three, Tmobile and Orange are using just one UTMS network. Tmobile and orange 2g coverage will still not match either o2 or vodafone. GSM 1800mhz is just not possible to get same coverage economically compared to 900mhz.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • LF9
                            • 09 Sep 2009

                            great! i hope orange in latin american

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                              • pete
                              • mEk
                              • 09 Sep 2009

                              orange have the best phone's ie omnia hd and the best tarrifs but the worst network coverage. Thank god they screwed up and had to release me from my contract after 6 weeks. Now my hd is on o2 he he

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                                • pete
                                • mEk
                                • 09 Sep 2009

                                orange have the best phone's ie omnia hd and the best tarrifs but the worst network coverage. Thank god they screwed up and had to release me from my contract after 6 weeks. Now my hd is on o2 he he

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • vag
                                  • 09 Sep 2009

                                  Vodafone and 3 are in the middle of a merge in Australia.

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                                    • Alex
                                    • LhN
                                    • 09 Sep 2009

                                    My virgin phone is getting left in the stone age now adays :(

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • n5Q
                                      • 09 Sep 2009

                                      Haha

                                      Orange + TMobile = Orange T(ea)

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                                        • gobber
                                        • 39A
                                        • 08 Sep 2009

                                        i like the way they orange and tmobile say "customers will have enhanced coverage inside and outside" then they say they are getting rid of loads of masts lol