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Virgin is moving to become a Vodafone MVNO.
5G capable customers will be moved over in the near future, others by 2021.
Cable TV and broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (Liberty Global) has today made the surprise announcement that their long-running Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement with BT (EE) will be coming to an end. Instead they’ve signed a new 5-year partnership deal for Virgin Mobile with rival operator Vodafone.
Previously there had been some speculation that Virgin Media might seek to swap their MVNO setup to use a different network, which was partly fuelled by the operator’s concern over BT’s earlier £12.5bn merger with EE (i.e. BT is now Virgin’s arch rival in both the fixed line and mobile space, not to mention TV). Despite this, in 2017 Virgin moved to extend their agreement with BT / EE, which is due to run until 2021 (here).
Under the new deal Virgin Mobile‘s services – covering around 3 million customers – will start to transition to the Vodafone network from the end of 2021 and there they will stay until 2026, although Virgin Media intends to launch their new ultrafast 5G (mobile broadband) products via Vodafone “in the near future” (i.e. ahead of the transition date). Click to expand...  www.ispreview.co.uk |
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27-11-2019 22:22:30