3 Mobile Phone Network

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by Thomas-the-Terrano2

i read that 3 might not be around much longer with the t-mobile orange merge.

Just to clarify.....Orange (which is a vastly bigger company, seventh largest telecoms provider in the world) purchased the relatively tiny T-Mobile operation from Deutsche Telecom and have dropped it into their existing infrastructure.

They don't have any designs on 3, so unless you mean that 3 might just go broke as a result of the enhanced Orange operation in the UK...?

By the way thats insider information and I had to take one for the team and sleep with my Orange contact to get it

[patbhoy]

After consideration I think my best option is to stay with vodafone

[Deleted account DD]

Originally Posted by patbhoy

After consideration I think my best option is to stay with vodafone

Theyre all just after your dosh at the end of the day but theyve always treat me nicely whilst they blagged me

[Deleted account DD]

Originally Posted by lacroupade

Just to clarify.....Orange (which is a vastly bigger company, seventh largest telecoms provider in the world) purchased the relatively tiny T-Mobile operation from Deutsche Telecom and have dropped it into their existing infrastructure.

They don't have any designs on 3, so unless you mean that 3 might just go broke as a result of the enhanced Orange operation in the UK...?

By the way thats insider information and I had to take one for the team and sleep with my Orange contact to get it

[(RIP) PLANK]

Originally Posted by lacroupade

Just to clarify.....Orange (which is a vastly bigger company, seventh largest telecoms provider in the world) purchased the relatively tiny T-Mobile operation from Deutsche Telecom and have dropped it into their existing infrastructure.

They don't have any designs on 3, so unless you mean that 3 might just go broke as a result of the enhanced Orange operation in the UK...?

By the way thats insider information and I had to take one for the team and sleep with my Orange contact to get it

I hope he enjoyed it

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by PLANK

I hope he enjoyed it

They all do

[Deleted account DD]

Originally Posted by lacroupade

They all do

[briggie]

i have the dubious privilidge of having to use a 3 mobile dongle when im on holiday in norfolk , i can never tell when it will allow me on the forum , its a bit of a game with them i think

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by daved

Ok I hang my head in shame.




It was the wife.

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

yeah more the new big 3 squeezing little old 3 out, thought i said that. was in biz
section of a broad sheet i picked up at work few weeks ago.

ref Hutchinson Dave i worked in darlo 91-92 for a firm called millisat on new then
ind est before you get to morrisons these days. millisat was an off shot of millicom
that had interests in hutchinson or vice versa. as you say big employer, my
bosses mrs worked for them. the millisat guys were putting sat tv into blocks of
flats on the catv to avoid tennants putting dishes all over their buildings.
i left sept 92 and they were moving to glasgow where a massive contract had
been won.

good days, is cummins still there?

[Deleted account DD]

millicom...thats them i was trying to think who preceded hutchinson and kept thinking comcast but they were another newcomer into the area and of course they morphed into ntl

Cummins is still there , only just i understand the "glass house" where the manufacturing was is now a big office for guess who ????

yup Orange

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by daved

millicom...thats them i was trying to think who preceded hutchinson and kept thinking comcast but they were another newcomer into the area and of course they morphed into ntl

Cummins is still there , only just i understand the "glass house" where the manufacturing was is now a big office for guess who ????

yup Orange

Millicom would have been a relative tiddler though; Hutchison Whampoa is a maaaaasive HK-based cmpany with fingrs in every market sector you can imagine and something like quarter of a million employees and $35-40 billion turnover...they buy and sell companies like this for breakfast......Orange was just one of the companies they bought and sold. Millicom is still operating but I think they are out of Europe now....yawn, how did we get here FGS?

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

how did we get here, well dont know about you but my parents met in '59
married in '60.......

[Deleted account DD]

No idea but whatever their status in the world pic they were a major investor in the town in the early 90's.

I would have thought that their intial presence led to the current seriously presence now of orange

theyll do for me

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by daved

No idea but whatever their status in the world pic they were a major investor in the town in the early 90's.

I would have thought that their intial presence led to the current seriously presence now of orange

theyll do for me

It was indeed their fault, but as I'm sure you know, your subs are supporting Sarkozy now, because having set up the brand, Hutchison sold it to France Telecom in 2000......you traitors!