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| Company type | Brand |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 7 September 1993 (as Mercury One2One) |
| Defunct | 11 May 2010 (as a company) February 2015 (as a brand) |
| Fate | Merged with Orange UK |
| Successor | EE |
Area served | United Kingdom |
| Products | Mobile telecommunications products and services |
| Website | t-mobile |
T-Mobile UK was a mobile network operator in the UK. First launched as Mercury One2One (stylised one2one) on 7 September 1993,[1] the network was originally operated by Mercury Communications. one2one was purchased by Deutsche Telekom in 1999, who rebranded it with their global T-Mobile brand name in 2002.[2]
In 1999, one2one became the world's first network to provide wireless network infrastructure to a mobile virtual network operator when Virgin Mobile was launched as a joint venture between one2one and Virgin Group.[3]
In 2010, it merged with Orange UK to form a joint venture, Everything Everywhere, which continued to operate the T-Mobile and Orange brands until March 2015 and allowed T-Mobile customers to utilise Orange's 2G signal and vice versa.
In 2012, Everything Everywhere launched their new network branding as EE. T-Mobile sims remain fully supported by EE, who are ultimately owned by BT since they acquired the company in January 2016 for £12.5 billion.[4][5][6]
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "EE is Now Part of BT | Business Help | EE Business". business.ee.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
- ^ Bicheno, Scott (2016-01-29). "BT officially completes EE acquisition". Telecoms.com. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
- ^ "BT's £12.5bn EE takeover gets green light". The Guardian. 2016-01-15. Retrieved 2021-06-06.