Earlier this week BT announced it had been contacted by shareholders in two UK mobile network operators about a possible transaction in which BT could acquire their UK mobile business. It revealed one of those companies was O2 but didn’t name the second network.
Deutsche Telekom and Orange, which jointly own UK network EE, have now confirmed they are the other network having talks with BT.
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Ofcom has published the volume of complaints made against mobile phone network operators, fixed-line phone providers, broadband companies and pay TV services between January and March 2014.
It’s the regulator’s thirteenth quarterly report of complaint data.
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French telecoms giant Orange has signed an agreement with Africell Holding to sell its majority stake in mobile network Orange Uganda.
Africell runs mobile networks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gambia and Sierra Leone, with over 7 million customers in Q4 2013.
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Podcast - 23rd April 2014
Telefonica sets up its own mobile advertising business, Mozilla puts an interim CEO in place and Nokia suspends sales of its flagship Windows 8.1 RT tablet: all topics for discussion in this week's podcast.
We're also talking about the future growth of Orange Money, EE's online activity, mobile broadband growth and the Loch Ness monster being spotted on Apple iPhones.
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Last week, Orange UK closed its online shop, online customer service and online account management, moving them all to the EE web site.
You might say the future is starting to look less bright for the Orange brand in the UK.
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