Mobile Merger

[andrewducker]

Orange are merging with T-Mobile.

I'm with Orange.

Anyone know what T-Mobile's customer service is like and whether I should be worried?

Comments

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

Earnings have been down across the telecoms sector in the past year or so. T-mobile is the European operation of Deutsche Telekom while Orange is the European operation of France Télécom. I'm not sure if this merger is proposed Europewide or just in the UK.

There are obvious savings to be made by merging, but after the huge expense of building their seperate networks, the savings to be had from reducing operating overheads must be relatively small. I wonder if a mobile network can be sold to a potential new operator? All the towers etc. are in place after all.

Still there must be savings to be made, I remember T-mobile attempted to buy O2 a few years ago but were outbid by Telffonica.