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Originally Posted by DRZ400
Three, T-Mobile, and Vodafone have outsourced their field operations to Ericsson .. A merger with Orange is unlikely.
A merger with Three however........
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The outsourcing of the infrastructure maintenance is (IMO) pretty much irrelevant. Ignoring the engineering limitations of the individual networks i mentioned earlier, the changes required on the network side are significant enough that E// would ask for a bundle of cash to make those changes - which in itself rules out the subscriber friendly merger in the current climate.
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Originally Posted by Stuart C
Also bear in that while one network may well have more 3G coverage than the other, a *lot* of the areas will be duplicated between the two networks, especially in towns and cities.
Yes, the merger will be nice for some people. It's doubtful it'll be nice for the subscribers though.
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That's true. And given 3's backup for anything they couldn't cover was O2, the first cost-saving measure would be to knock that on the head and have it as T-Mobile. Which brings us back to my earlier comment on the impact of that on the T-Mobile network and it annoying more subscribers than it helps...