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The newly formed Everything Everywhere has signed up Africa’s Econet Wireless as its first MVNO partner Everything Everywhere has signed up Africa’s Econet Wireless as its first MVNO partner since officially launching. Everything Everywhere was officially launched on July 1 after the merger of Orange and T-Mobile, and with the addition of Econet Wireless now [...] Read Full Story…
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• New name for merged Orange and T-Mobile Orange and T-Mobile have chosen the name Everything Everywhere for their merged company, though the two brands will still be used when dealing with customers. The new business plans to open some 100 retail outlets and increase its portfolio of Wi-Fi hotspots across the country. The merger will enable T-Mobile to launch fixed-line services, and Orange is considering adding TV to its existing residential broadband offering. As the year progresses, however, there are likely to be job losses among Everything Everywhere’s 16,500 staff as the merged business carries out a cull of middle management. The UK’s third and fourth placed mobile phone companies announced plans to merge last September and the plan gained regulatory approval following talks over its share of mobile phone spectrum, earlier this year. Chief executive Tom Alexander said they wanted a holding company name that was more than the cod-Latin names so many companies use, while not being a traditional telecoms name either. “What I wanted was a company name that did not distract or confuse from two very strong brands,” he said. “What I wanted was something that was additive. I love Everything Everywhere because it really does encapsulate the vision and the ambition for the company.” “We are going through this revolutionary step in the marketplace where people are getting iPhones, getting Google devices and we have Microsoft’s Phone 7 coming into the market soon. It’s not just about voice and text. It’s about everything else you can do on a mobile phone. People are even talking about apps down the pub.” “It’s not some bland name – Orange and T-Mobile Company Limited or something – it is encapsulating what the vision of the business is.” Everything Everywhere will be used in advertising by Orange and T-Mobile as a tag-line rather than merely as an explanation of the company behind the two brands. “Yes it will be on our pay slip and we will use it as a description of the holding company but we will also use it as a tag line appropriately. You will see it popping up occasionally,” Alexander said. It was developed by the merged company’s internal team with help from T-Mobile’s ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi and Orange’s agency Fallon, both of whom are part of Publicis. With 27,000 mobile phone masts across the country, Everything Everywhere has a larger footprint than rivals O2, Vodafone and 3, which already shares its network with T-Mobile. It has 713 retail stores and 20 concessions in HMV stores. At the time of the merger, Alexander said the company would rationalise its store portfolio but eight months on, it has decided to open several dozen more stores and add 50 new HMV concessions. As phones become more complicated, the company needs an increased local presence in order to help customers with their new gadgets. “We have looked at it long and hard and actually we are going to extend our number of shops. There are areas in the country where we will open new Everything Everywhere stores: they could be Orange branded; they could be T-Mobile branded or they could be a combination of both, especially in small rural towns. It is not just selling. We also want to provide service and help to customers on the high street not just over the phone. As people can do more and more with a mobile phone … we want to hold the hand of the customer and show them how they can get more out of their devices.” Alexander is also looking at increasing the 173 Wi-Fi hotspots that T-Mobile already owns – in airports and railway stations as well as on the Heathrow Express, West Coast mainline and London to Brighton route – as the merged company looks to benefit from the scale of its business. “We have the economies of scale to develop our capabilities, whether it’s hotspots, fixed broadband, better mobile networks. We want to have core capabilities that we can leverage across both brands,” Alexander said. T-Mobile, unlike rivals Orange, O2 and Vodfone, has never had a residential broadband offering, something which Alexander said will be rectified. “I think it is inevitable that we will be coming up with a total communications package for T-Mobile customers. It is not something that is going to be launched imminently but it is something that is in our vision.” Also in the plan but not facing an imminent launch is broadband TV for Orange’s 850,000 residential customers. “Television is firmly back on the agenda,” Alexander said, after it was originally slated back in 2007. As well as its new name, Everything Everywhere announced its senior management team yesterday, which comprises 13 former Orange executives and 10 from T-Mobile. Among the team are the three former Virgin Mobile executives who Alexander brought with him when he joined Orange: Virgin’s former customer relationship director Andrew Ralston is chief commercial officer, Virgin’s operations director Gerry McQuade is chief development officer and former journalist and Virgin Mobile press office head Steven Day is vice-president of brands and communications.
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Auction must wait for new managementOnce expected to be in the vanguard of 4G services, the UK’s plans to open up new spectrum have been dogged by repeated delays. Legal challenges, cellco mergers and the decision to bundle 2.6GHz and digital dividend auctions together – all these have pushed the UK from the front of the EU’s spectrum race to the rear, and now the general election is creating further delay.… Read Full Story…
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Verizon Communications Inc’s top executive dismissed speculation his company would merge with wireless venture partner Vodafone Group Plc , saying such a deal would offer little benefit. Read Full Story…
• iPhone and BlackBerry users may find services overcrowded Britain’s legion of smartphone users may have to watch their iPhone or BlackBerry become potentially useless as the UK’s mobile phone networks face a potential “capacity crunch”. This week’s expected call of a general election may send plans to liberalise the UK airwaves back to the drawing board and deprive an incoming government of the early windfall it could have bagged by selling off the old analogue television signal next year. It could also leave the newly merged Orange and T-Mobile in limbo while management wait to see whether they can use their existing mobile phone spectrum for the next generation of super-fast mobile phone technologies – known as “long term evolution” or LTE. Any delay to the liberalisation of the airwaves or sale of a new spectrum would leave mobile phone operators with a serious headache. Last year, according to Ofcom, mobile data traffic increased 200% and some networks – most notably O2 in London – are creaking under the strain. They need more capacity so users of smartphones that can access the web or download applications do not see their connections slow down or fail. After almost five years of wrangling, the mobile phone industry, Ofcom and the government’s own spectrum adviser Kip Meek last year thrashed out a deal that would allow the mobile phone companies to use their existing spectrum for mobile broadband services. It involved caps on the amount of wireless spectrum they could own but did allow them to take part in an auction of a further spectrum – including the old analogue TV signal – planned for next year. While that auction was not expected to raise anything like the £22.5bn that the original 3G spectrum sale earned back in 2000, it would still have raised hundreds of millions, possibly even a few billion pounds. The plan was complicated by the merger of Orange and T-Mobile, but in order to avoid a lengthy competition inquiry the two companies agreed to sell a quarter of the spectrum they were granted in the 1990s for voice and text services. The deal, which required Lord Mandelson’s personal intervention, also included extending indefinitely the 20-year licences that the mobile phone companies picked up in the dotcom boom for so-called 3G mobile data services. In fact it emerged last week that one UK operator – 3 – has already factored the extension of its 3G licence into its financial figures. The whole spectrum package has been working its way through parliament as a statutory instrument that instructs Ofcom to implement Kip Meek’s plan. It has progressed alongside the controversial passage of the Digital Economy Bill which includes provisions for punishing persistent unlawful internet file-sharers by severing their broadband connections. If Gordon Brown calls a general election tomorrow, as widely anticipated, the digital economy bill is likely to be pushed into law in the so-called wash-up of legislation that will occur this week. In order for it to become law, however, the statutory instrument needs to be debated and voted upon in the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The party whips are understood to have given the instrument time in the House of Commons but no such provision has been made in the Lords. “It looks very, very precarious,” said one mobile phone industry insider last night. “If it does not get through there is every likelihood that a new government will review the whole matter again, delaying the process for a year, perhaps more.” Even if it does go through, BT is understood to be considering legal action against plans to extend the networks’ 3G licences, having already sent a strongly worded letter to Lord Mandelson about what it sees as an unjustifiable subsidy for the mobile phone industry. Despite the potential capacity crunch, O2 and Vodafone are actually likely to welcome any delay in the process of implementing the statutory instrument. They believe the merged Orange and T-Mobile will still have too much spectrum. Orange and T-Mobile, however, will be dismayed at any delay to the liberalisation of spectrum. There has been speculation recently that the two companies want to use the capacity they were given when they started operating in the 1990s for LTE services. They would be the first UK network to run LTE services.
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Hutchison ‘looking for options’With the merger of Orange UK and T-Mobile UK approved by the European Union, the current UK leaders, O2 and Vodafone, will be mulling their competitive responses. So far, Vodafone has mainly focused on revamping its software brands and its higher-value services, but it could also move to acquire the country’s smallest cellco, 3 UK, say analysts.…
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The European Commission has approved the merger, which will create the UK’s largest operator, after the parties allayed fears over spectrum and competition
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – T-Mobile, the British arm of Deutsche Telekom, and France Telecom’s Orange won EU regulatory approval on Monday for their plan to merge after they pledged to give up some radio spectrum. Read Full Story… |
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