Alex Kinch

It may have only been unveiled a matter of hours ago, but the PR teams at both T-Mobile and Orange have been busy assembling a veritable ream of information about the proposed merger of their two businesses. And some video too (at the end of this post).
First, some headline figures. As mentioned in the post [...]

There was an interesting article in The Observer over the weekend, featuring an interview with Matthew Key, Chief Executive of O2.
Is he worried about being left out of the bidding war for Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile UK business unit? Quite probably, but he plays it quite cool. “We are watching developments closely, but if you’re asking [...]

It’s been another weekend of rumours over the future of T-Mobile UK – with reports that Vodafone and 3’s parent company might team up to launch a bid for the troubled UK mobile division of Deutsche Telekom.

Telecom Service Centre (TSC), who provide call centre staff for T-Mobile at their Larbert and Greenock sites, have been told their jobs are at risk as part of a T-Mobile plan to shift their call centre to the Phillipines.

T-Mobile have announced plans to drop Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection from music tracks on their Mobile Jukebox service from June 4th.

Looking forward to the next round of EU roaming caps from July 1st? If you’re a T-Mobile customer prepare to be disappointed – the operator is putting prices up from June 28th.

Remember the ongoing saga of T-Mobile and their blocking of VoIP applications like Skype? Well there’s good news – they will be allowing VoIP traffic on their network.. but for a price.

T-Mobile UK’s Mobile Broadband service has topped the quarterly independent YouGov DongleTracker survey for the second quarter in a row, the company has announced.

UPDATE: It doesn’t seem that long ago that we lost the one2one brand in favour of T-Mobile – and it might be about to happen again if Deutsche Telekom’s shareholders get their way, and force an exit of the UK market – or a merger with existing operator.

3G-only network 3 (H3G to it’s friends) has reduced pre-tax losses in the UK from £791 million to £152 million for the year to December 2008.
Revenue at the parent group, Hutchinson Whampoa of Hong Kong, is also up 18% to £1.5 billion.
The operator has 8% of the British market, equivalent to around 4.9 million customers. [...]