Cable Forum - View Single Post - Orange 3G-peasy dream seems shattered

m419 · 17-03-2009, 15:41

The reason for O2 being the smallest is because of the overnight transformation it recieved in 2001/2.

In December 2001,BT Cellnet,Genie and BT Mobile operations in Germany,Holland and Ireland demerged away from the BT Group and formed 'MMO2 Group', Because they were new,they didnt have that much revenue,they also had little time to compete with Hutchison 3G as Hutchison planned to launch there service in 2002. MMO2 sold off O2 Holland to cover some of the 3G costs. In 2005/6 MMO2 became O2 plc and was eventually taken over by Telefonica who are expanding the O2 brand to there original operations including its Spanish operations, there is now much more hope that O2 3G will get better now that it has better funding.

BT only got rid of it because they knew what 3G would be like, BT where also rolling out Broadband and where behind the Cable companies,so BT needed funding to roll out Broadband and catch up with NTL,Telewest and Smallworld.

And lastly, 3G technology was also orginally set up for better mobile internet not just video calling!

17-03-2009, 15:41	#16
m419 Inactive Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: London Services: BT Broadband,BT Anytime calls,Sky entertainment extra HD,Vodafone pay monthly Posts: 1,512	Re: Orange 3G-peasy dream seems shattered The reason for O2 being the smallest is because of the overnight transformation it recieved in 2001/2. In December 2001,BT Cellnet,Genie and BT Mobile operations in Germany,Holland and Ireland demerged away from the BT Group and formed 'MMO2 Group', Because they were new,they didnt have that much revenue,they also had little time to compete with Hutchison 3G as Hutchison planned to launch there service in 2002. MMO2 sold off O2 Holland to cover some of the 3G costs. In 2005/6 MMO2 became O2 plc and was eventually taken over by Telefonica who are expanding the O2 brand to there original operations including its Spanish operations, there is now much more hope that O2 3G will get better now that it has better funding. BT only got rid of it because they knew what 3G would be like, BT where also rolling out Broadband and where behind the Cable companies,so BT needed funding to roll out Broadband and catch up with NTL,Telewest and Smallworld. And lastly, 3G technology was also orginally set up for better mobile internet not just video calling!