This sounds like a monopoly to me. Who does that leave outside apart from Three......
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I read somewhere recentlyO2 and Vodafone is about it
I have a few three contracts which I have had for fifteen+ years and one orange now EE which I have had for twenty+ years. Never felt the need to change but I did prefer Orange before they become involved with EE.Large size of a company doesn't necessarily equate to high quality of service provision. Having used both BT and EE in the past I would have to invest in a much longer bargepole to do so again.
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I read somewhere recently
O2 and three are merging also
Which will leave us with
vodaphone
o2+three
Bt+ we
Sky is looking for a partner also
I have such a Bargepole for sale Graham £500.Large size of a company doesn't necessarily equate to high quality of service provision. Having used both BT and EE in the past I would have to invest in a much longer bargepole to do so again.
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Sorry Roger, nice pole but it's £1500 too muchI have such a Bargepole for sale Graham £500.
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Or just Oh Oh Oh!Will they be known as 05?
Wyn
That would be Magic (Never believe it's not so)Or just Oh Oh Oh!
Oh Cinque? (to rhyme with sink) We have half decent O2 reception here but Three reception sucks. I just hope they don't unplug the O2 transmitter if it happens.Will they be known as 05?
Wyn
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One of our sons used to be with T-Mobile and once received a £200 bill for a call from Oxford. Luckily he was able to prove that he had signed out from work ten minutes before the alleged call was made. Even T-Mobile had to admit that it takes more than ten minutes to get to Oxford from MiddlesbroughI found out the hard way that EE are ruthless it cost me a lot of money
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cheapskateSorry Roger, nice pole but it's £1500 too much
Historical.It wouldn't be so bad if they all used the same sat dishes or whatever they use , where we live we have to have o2 as nothing else works.
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Historical.
Are you sitting comfortably ?
Back in the day, Vodafone and Cellnet had the UK mobile market sewn up tighter than a ducks chuff. To save costs they shared cell sites, although if you go inside one of their cabins they have their own transmission and power kit. Call costs were the same <cough> price fixing <cough>. Where there was a low potential subscriber base, they'd agree on who was going to cover that cell.
Along came the new boys on the block - One2One (now T-Mobile) and Hutchison (now Orange). They wanted to offer cheaper calls, and <jaw drop> free incoming calls. This caused "The Cartel" much anxiety, and so a devious plan was concocted. They wouldn't allow the upstarts to share their cell sites because - "they use a completely different bandwidth (true) which will interfere with our equipment" (cough). And thus One2One and Hutchison had to go to much expense keeping me and many others in the lifestyle we're accustomed.
The Cartel got away with it for some time, until some boffins proved that "interference" claim was about as plausible as an MPs expenses claim. Oftel (now OFcom) decreed that thus forth all four had to get on like bestie mates - and that never happened.
Three normally use their own masts / cabins ... cos no one liked their idea of giving stuff away for free. Twats.
And that's why you sometimes see two or more masts in close proximity.
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I've been with O2 for years and happy with them. I believe they are owned by Telefonica a Spanish company!
A merger with 3 would not be a bad idea!
I think, that if Telefonica, who have mobile phone systems in UK. Germany and Spain, allowed their customers to use their mobiles openly, in any of these countries, they would clean up, especially in Spain and the UK.
Historical.
Are you sitting comfortably ?
And that's why you sometimes see two or more masts in close proximity.
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