Customers of Orange and T-Mobile will be able to roam between the companies’ networks following a merger between the two telecoms giants to create Everything Everywhere.
Our Mod markaveli420 came up with some interesting news. Orange and T-Mobile enabled customers to opt-in to roaming between each other’s network following a joint venture by the two called ‘Everything Everywhere’ earlier this year. Currently, the service applies to the 2G network only but allows for voice and text communication on both networks. By sharing networks, Orange and T-Mobile create a single, large network infrastructure consisting of over 30 million subscribers allowing the UK to pick up signal in locations that previously had no service. Orange and T-Mobile advise that customers can safely ignore roaming indicators or warnings on their mobile phones, as long as they are within the boundaries of the UK. As such, no extra cost is associated and customers continue to be charged cross-net.
Tom Alexander, chief executive of Everything Everywhere, said that automated roaming to the best of the two signals would be in place by early next year.
“It will be just as though the phone is roaming abroad, but in the UK,” he said.
via: telegraph.co.uk