TalkTalk are to leave Vodafone and join O2 to provide their MVNO. TalkTalk will offer 4G through O2 but there seems to be a bigger game plan looming.
Which makes interesting given recent goings on with BT!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...G-service.html
Quote:
“Although TalkTalk will initially act only as a reseller, in time it plans to augment it network by distributing new home routers to its 4.2 million broadband customers that will also function as small mobile masts. By routing calls and data via the new equipment, over its own small slice of 4G radio spectrum, it will aim to reduce its payments to O2.
Baroness Harding said TalkTalk was some years away from implementing the plan, however. BT is working on similar technology on a more ambitious scale. It aims to begin exploiting its 4G radio spectrum a year after the scheduled launch of its consumer network next spring.
Both companies are aiming to undercut traditional mobile networks and build their base of ‘quad-play’ subscribers, who pay for a bundle of broadband, home phone, mobile and television services. ”
“Although TalkTalk will initially act only as a reseller, in time it plans to augment it network by distributing new home routers to its 4.2 million broadband customers that will also function as small mobile masts. By routing calls and data via the new equipment, over its own small slice of 4G radio spectrum, it will aim to reduce its payments to O2.
Baroness Harding said TalkTalk was some years away from implementing the plan, however. BT is working on similar technology on a more ambitious scale. It aims to begin exploiting its 4G radio spectrum a year after the scheduled launch of its consumer network next spring.
Both companies are aiming to undercut traditional mobile networks and build their base of ‘quad-play’ subscribers, who pay for a bundle of broadband, home phone, mobile and television services. ”
Which makes interesting given recent goings on with BT!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...G-service.html