{"id":1777,"date":"2012-10-02T09:08:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T08:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2012-10-02T09:14:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T08:14:25","slug":"vodafone-and-o2-uk-given-green-light-to-merge-mobile-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/10\/vodafone-and-o2-uk-given-green-light-to-merge-mobile-networks.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone and O2 Given Green Light to Merge UK 3G and 4G Mobile Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> (Telefonica) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> have been given the green light to merge their UK based 2G, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/3g\">3G<\/a> and future <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> (LTE) platforms through a new network sharing agreement that will also lay the foundations for <strong>98% population coverage<\/strong> by the end of 2015 (two years ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s 2017 deadline).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The agreement is similar to the existing network sharing deal between T-Mobile, Orange UK, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> (Everything Everywhere) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a> that resulted in the creation of a separate group called the <strong>Mobile-Broadband Network Limited<\/strong> (MBNL).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a>&#8217;s plan also involves the creation of a new <strong>50\/50 joint venture company<\/strong> (<em>CTI Ltd<\/em>)\u00a0that will manage their single &#8220;<em>national grid<\/em>&#8221; network of <strong>18,500 sites across the UK<\/strong>. Both operators will continue to run independent spectrum and competing services.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Ronan Dunne, CEO of Telef\u00f3nica \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> UK, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>This partnership is about working smarter as an industry, so that we can focus on what really matters to our customers \u2013 delivering a superfast network up to two years faster than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> envisages and to as many people as possible. One physical grid, running independent networks, will mean broader coverage and, crucially, investment in innovation and better competition for the customer. We look forward to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>\u2019s spectrum auction and the release of 800 spectrum<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Guy Laurence, CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> UK, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>This is excellent news for British consumers, businesses and the wider economy: we are promising indoor coverage for 98% of the UK population across all technologies within three years. We will bring the best mobile coverage that this country has ever enjoyed to more people than ever before. Our existing customers will benefit on the devices that they have today and we will lay the foundations for the real <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> network they will want tomorrow<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Each operator will also have to take responsibility for the design, management and maintenance of the radio equipment and local transmission on one half of the country. For example, O2 will manage the network in the East of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, while Vodafone will do the same in the West of England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme itself was officially cleared by the UK regulatory authorities (Ofcom and the Office of Fair Trading)\u00a0at the end of last week (sorry we&#8217;re a few days late in covering this news), although its plans to offer a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> based Mobile Broadband service will\u00a0depend upon the outcome of Ofcom\u2019s related auction of the require wireless spectrum bands (<strong>800MHz<\/strong> and <strong>2.6GHz<\/strong>). The timing for\u00a0this will in-turn also depend upon the outcome of today&#8217;s crunch talks between the industry\u2019s largest mobile operators, the government&#8217;s culture secretary and Ofcom (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/10\/tuesday-2nd-october-is-crunch-day-for-uk-4g-mobile-broadband-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\">details<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operators O2 (Telefonica) and Vodafone have been given the green light to merge their UK based 2G, 3G and future 4G (LTE) platforms through a new network sharing agreement that will also lay the foundations for 98% population coverage by the end of 2015 (two years ahead of Ofcom&#8217;s 2017 deadline).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,61,60,32,96],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-3g","tag-4g","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-o2","tag-vodafone"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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