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Orange and T-Mobile merge networks
IN WHAT IT IS CLAIMING is the biggest shake-up of the UK mobile phone market, the outfit that runs the Orange and T-Mobile telcos has merged their mobile networks.
Tom Alexander, CEO of Everything Everywhere, which runs Orange and T-Mobile and is now the UK's biggest communications company, said that the both mobile networks are now available to customers of both brands.
This means that half of the UK population can communicate on a single mobile phone network. It will mean that they can make calls and send texts in more places in the UK for no extra cost.
He added that this will give punters instant access to whatever they want, wherever they are.
Once mobile phone users are registered, if they lose signal on their existing network, they will then automatically pick up the signal from the other network where it's available.
The good things about it are that the system will switch to whichever of the two networks has the strongest signal even while they're in mid-call and it will also give them enhanced data and Internet coverage. µ
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Thanks for that Charlie. Should have known better than to think The Inq could copy/paste accurately!
If Orange are so confident you need to opt in then it sounds more like a beta test... I'd want paying for that, not the other way round... I think I'll let other be the guinea pigs come Oct 5th!
You only had to cut and paste information from a press release and you failed at that... a more useful article on this matter is here:
http://www.mobiletoday.co.uk/Mobile_Exec/Customers_can_roam_across_Orange_and_T-Mobile_from_5_October.aspx
where it confirms Orange/T-Mobile roaming will be available from 5 Oct but is initially available only as an opt-in scheme, and it's certainly not yet available as you claim.
If Orange or T-Mobile customers want to opt-in to the roaming pilot scheme from 5 Oct, they can sign up here:
Orange Users: http://orange.co.uk/share
T-Mobile Users: http://t-mobile.co.uk/share
(Note that I have no association with either mobile operator, it's just that I'm on T-Mobile and get no signal in certain parts of the country so I'm quite eager to be able to roam on to Orange when I can!)
Went for a little walk down the road (yes, I was curious to see if Orange had managed a network "improvement" that didn't have a detrimental effect on my coverage as it did last time they "upgraded" my local cell).
Scanned for carriers, found T-Mobile, told it to manually connect to that...
*denied*
Normal service then Orange?
Has anyone managed to make their Orange phone use the other network?
A quick check on my Orange mobile, switching it to manual network selection, proved one thing at least... There *is* a network which gives me worse coverage in my house than Orange...