Interesting acquisition

[Rik]

It's the way things need to go, Den. We could have Openreach running the network for them. 

[Glenn]

Three and T-Mobile have been working on combining their network coverage for the past 2 years with thier joint company MBNL, it is due to go live on 10 October 2010, thier goal is 97.5% coverage of the UK by population.

[Glenn]

The strange thing with the companies is, Ericsson manage the transmission networks for Three, T-Mobile, & Vodafone, I'm not sure if Orange and O2 have outsourced their networks.

[pctech]

O2's network uses Nokia Siemens Networks kit in the main I gather, not sure whether management and maintenance is outsourced to them though.

Thought Orange was mostly Ericsson based.