Originally Posted by clewsy:
“Interesting as would have thought Tesco would be larger than Virgin. However there are only a few MVNOs with 4g access and lest be honest, one is going to own a network soon and the other 2 are owned / part owned by o2.
Doesn't bode well for long term competition.”
Wikipedia says Virgin Mobile had 4.1million subscribers in 2007 when Branson sold to NTL:Telewest (giving them the ability to rename the group Virgin Media) - and it was founded in 1999. The VM press release in 2013 says 61% of their 3 million mobile customers have smartphones.
http://investors.virginmedia.com/pho...cle&ID=1872882
Tesco Mobile has 4 million customers apparently in 2015.
So Tesco overtook Virgin Mobile and Virgin Media seems to have lost mobile customers. Most of my friends with Virgin cable TV and internet have EE or Three mobile phones. The VM phone service is not impressive.