Mvnos In Europe

andy · 04-07-2006, 17:49

edit - actually, apologies as it appears that BT only have monthly postpaid accounts now - either they always did and my memory is defective, or they ceased prepaid - probably the former as it would go on the monthly landline bill

maybe I should delete this then
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In UK, BT Mobile has been an mvno on 3 different networks now

When British Telecom still owned O2, then it was natural that they would market mobile deals to their landline customers. When O2 was floated off separately on the stock market, they eventually drifted apart to the point where BT signed mvno deals elsewhere

But even then, private and business BT customers were on different networks to begin with. Home customers were on T-mobile. Then BT signed a deal with Vodafone for corporate customers, then in Jan last year agreed to migrate the personal ones there too.

It isn't only available to BT customers, but sold separately as well.

They recently launched so-called Fusion phones, which are GSM and landline hybrid tariff, maybe later using wi-fi and broadband/VoIP at home I think, or a cheap interim homezone tariff (not sure which)

Can't get links at the moment, as some of their site is offline - only the national network!

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andy (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Prophet Posts: 2,128 Join Date: 10 Dec 2004 Country:	04-07-2006, 17:49 edit - actually, apologies as it appears that BT only have monthly postpaid accounts now - either they always did and my memory is defective, or they ceased prepaid - probably the former as it would go on the monthly landline bill maybe I should delete this then __ In UK, BT Mobile has been an mvno on 3 different networks now When British Telecom still owned O2, then it was natural that they would market mobile deals to their landline customers. When O2 was floated off separately on the stock market, they eventually drifted apart to the point where BT signed mvno deals elsewhere But even then, private and business BT customers were on different networks to begin with. Home customers were on T-mobile. Then BT signed a deal with Vodafone for corporate customers, then in Jan last year agreed to migrate the personal ones there too. It isn't only available to BT customers, but sold separately as well. They recently launched so-called Fusion phones, which are GSM and landline hybrid tariff, maybe later using wi-fi and broadband/VoIP at home I think, or a cheap interim homezone tariff (not sure which) Can't get links at the moment, as some of their site is offline - only the national network!