News - BT to use EE infrastructure to provide mobile network offering

[HEXUS]

In multi-year agreement BT will become an EE MVNO, includes 4G services.

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[scaryjim]

Isn't BT Openzone already powered by EE (via T-Mobile) in some areas? And interesting to see a BT return to UK mobile services after however many years since BT Cellnet folded into ... O2, was it?

[dave87]

BT Mobile previously was powered by Vodafone and T-Mobile, however after a few promising years this was abandoned and you couldn't take out new contracts (though existing ones survived until they became uncompetitive so the user switched). I wonder if we'll see the same again....(speaking from experience here!)

[RussiaForever]

Seems legit

[Hicks12]

slightly off topic but who provides Three mobile network? I was pretty sure they were using BTs network since they started out as a virtual network(still are?)

[maverik-sg1]

That 3G coverage, I must reside (no mater where I am) in the 1% where there's no coverage - I consider 3G to be a poorly implemented comms platform here's hoping 4G is a significant improvement.

[OilSheikh]

slightly off topic but who provides Three mobile network? I was pretty sure they were using BTs network since they started out as a virtual network(still are?)

Hutchinson 3G ?

[Champman99]

slightly off topic but who provides Three mobile network? I was pretty sure they were using BTs network since they started out as a virtual network(still are?)

Three is a proper network. I'm not sure if this is still the case as 3g is much wider, but previously as they were "only" a 3g network, they acted as an MVNO to provide wider 2g coverage for calls and texts on other networks (initially O2 then Orange) whilst having their own dedicated 3g network

[Chaoss]

I'm currently with BT Mobile, I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad one.

[burble]

slightly off topic but who provides Three mobile network? I was pretty sure they were using BTs network since they started out as a virtual network(still are?)

The radio network is shared with EE/T-Mobile/Orange and run by a company called MBNL which was setup as a joint venture between T-Mobile & Three.

[crossy]

I'm currently with BT Mobile, I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad one.

Based on my experience as a T-Mobile customer, I'd say bad. I switched to T-Mobile (from Three) and was getting pretty good service locally. Then, T-Mobile/Orange became EE and the signal strength dropped, and after the 4G product was launched it dropped out altogether. So at the moment I can only get GPRS locally - and other folks have had the same experience.

It's almost as if EE have sabotaged the old 3G network to "incentivise" folks to move to the fancy-pants new 4G one. But of course, that's a thought unworthy, and I really must stop being so suspicious and cynical.

[DanceswithUnix]

The radio network is shared with EE/T-Mobile/Orange and run by a company called MBNL which was setup as a joint venture between T-Mobile & Three.

I believe the mast network is shared, the radios on those masts seem to be different. I certainly noticed a change going from Three to T-mobile.

[burble]

I believe the mast network is shared, the radios on those masts seem to be different. I certainly noticed a change going from Three to T-mobile.

It's the same RAN I believe.

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