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T-Mobile UK was a mobile network operator in the UK. First launched as Mercury One2One (stylised one2one ) on 7 September 1993, [ 1 ] the network was originally operated by Mercury Communications . one2one was purchased by Deutsche Telekom in 1999, who rebranded it with their global T-Mobile brand name in 2002.
Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom (now Orange S.A.) announced plans to merge their respective UK ventures – T-Mobile UK and Orange UK – on 8 September 2009. T-Mobile's UK unit had its origins in Mercury Communications, formed in 1989, and Orange had launched its services in 1994 while under the ownership of Hutchison Whampoa.
List of mobile virtual network operators in the United Kingdom. This is a list of notable mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in the United Kingdom, which lease wireless telephone and data spectrum from the major carriers EE, O2, Three and Vodafone for resale.
T-Mobile is the third-largest wireless carrier in the United States, after Verizon and AT&T, with 31.43% of the market share as of June 13, 2024. [6] The company was founded in 1994 by John W. Stanton of the Western Wireless Corporation as VoiceStream Wireless.
This has since been merged with T-Mobile's network. Orange's 2G network covered 99% of the UK population, and was the largest integrated 3G/2.5G network in the UK. Orange claimed in 2008 that it spent up to £1.5 million per day investing in its network. [citation needed] In 2009, Orange UK decided to outsource its mobile network. [21]
T-Mobile UK's network was also used as the backbone network behind the Virgin Mobile virtual network. In late 2007, it was confirmed that the merger of the high-speed 3G and HSDPA networks operated by T-Mobile UK and 3 (UK) was to take place starting January 2008. This left T-Mobile and 3 with the largest HSDPA mobile phone network in the country.
In the UK, there were 35 million (2002) mainline telephones. The telephone service in the United Kingdom was originally provided by private companies and local city councils, but by 1912–13 [14] all except the telephone service of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and Guernsey had been bought out by the General Post Office.
Who owns T-Mobile? T-Mobile's largest shareholder is Deutsche Telekom AG, a German telecommunications company. KfW, Germany's state-owned bank, owns 16.63% of Deutsche Telekom AG, as of December 2023.