Joint UK mobile operators T-Mobile and Three (3) have signed an important five year Mobile Broadband capacity deal with BT Wholesale. The contract, which will improve backhaul capacity by linking base stations with faster land-line connections, is worth several hundred million pounds:


Both O2 and Vodafone have already signed similar deals with BT Wholesale earlier in the year, which is expected to help prop up Mobile Broadband growth for awhile. Orange UK is now the only major mobile operator not to have signed a similar agreement with BT.

Meanwhile T-Mobile and Three (3) recently confirmed that their new network sharing deal would result in 5,000 unnecessary cell sites being decommissioned around the country. Many believe that the close ties between the two will one day result in a merger.