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BT Mobile. Who is the service provider?
Anyone any idea who is the actual service provider for BT Mobile?
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Vodafone
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Kind of ironic seeing as BT used to own o2!
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Kind of ironic seeing as BT used to own o2!
Off topic I know but not sure what O2 are doing - they are owned by Telefonica in spain and one of my friends bought a new mobile on O2 the other day and on their screen it reads "Telefonica UK" |
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BT didn't own O2 as such, BT sold their mobile communications network off and that became O2.
Off topic I know but not sure what O2 are doing - they are owned by Telefonica in spain and one of my friends bought a new mobile on O2 the other day and on their screen it reads "Telefonica UK" |
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i remember when they were called BT Cellnet
The good ol' days
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And T-Mobile was called one2one
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BT didn't own O2 as such, BT sold their mobile communications network off and that became O2.
Off topic I know but not sure what O2 are doing - they are owned by Telefonica in spain and one of my friends bought a new mobile on O2 the other day and on their screen it reads "Telefonica UK" |
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i think, for a short time before that they were mercury mobile or something similar in around '93
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i remember when they were called BT Cellnet
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BT didn't own O2 as such, BT sold their mobile communications network off and that became O2.
Off topic I know but not sure what O2 are doing - they are owned by Telefonica in spain and one of my friends bought a new mobile on O2 the other day and on their screen it reads "Telefonica UK" They owned the company that was rebranded to O2 but for all intents and purposes, BT used to own O2 |
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I thought the operatore names were programmed into the handset and the mcc/mnc (or something like that) came from the network, the phone associating one with the other.
i remember reading the change log from some f/w upgrade that said it was changing the networks names. i pretty confident that if i fired up my 3210 with an o2 sim in it would say Cellnet. |
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When it came to the mobile market, BT well and truly messed up.
The BT Mobile service is very poor. Expensive PAYG charges, laughable pay monthly tariffs, hardly any PAYG phones available, poor reviews. The only thing going for it is the reputable name. |
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Thats strange as every phone i see on O2 says O2 - UK on its screen, i hope they're not name changing!
Strange, I bought a Samsung G600 from an O2 retail store less than a week ago but mine says "O2-UK". |
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I think Telefonica is an ugly name.
I thought the company were changing the whole brand to o2, being universal and simple. |
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I thought the operatore names were programmed into the handset and the mcc/mnc (or something like that) came from the network, the phone associating one with the other.
i remember reading the change log from some f/w upgrade that said it was changing the networks names. i pretty confident that if i fired up my 3210 with an o2 sim in it would say Cellnet. |
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I think Telefonica is an ugly name.
I thought the company were changing the whole brand to o2, being universal and simple. Telefonica UK, seems appropriate. |
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I first joined them when they were Genie....over 11 years ago. Have been with them since.
![]() I thought it came up Telefonica UK when you were roaming from Europe, but O2 UK when its your home network? If anything, I was led to believe Telefonica is planning to rebrand Movistar (their mobile service in Spain speaking countries) to O2, not the other way around. Look at the O2 branding of the Dome and The Point in Dublin. They're not dropping the name, seemingly. |
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To be honest i much prefer the name O2 to Telefonica, are there some rumoured name changes on the cards then?
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o2 have got HUGE brand power in this country, they'd be fools to change it to Telefonica.
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Can anyone tell me, I remember years ago, back in the 90s(it feels strange saying that) an old friend buying a BT Cellnet/o2 simcard from 'the guy down on the market' but it was not official and was a plain card.
I cannot see how this was done though seen as the network has a set of numbers and simcard numbers or something? |
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Can anyone tell me, I remember years ago, back in the 90s(it feels strange saying that) an old friend buying a BT Cellnet/o2 simcard from 'the guy down on the market' but it was not official and was a plain card.
I cannot see how this was done though seen as the network has a set of numbers and simcard numbers or something? |
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Why should a company with a proud history going back to April 1924 change it's name to that of a company it acquired in a minor market territory. I suspect that renaming O2 could well be on the cards, as DT did when they introduced T-Mobile to the UK market by taking over one-to-one. Similarly when Vodafone took over Mannesmann in Germany it was renamed Vodafone. The only exception in Telecoms to this practice is France Telecom's acquisition of Orange, which was a valued trademark which they adopted.
Telefonica UK, seems appropriate. What you do have to remember is that when you change a brand name, or even just a look, you lose a lot of the public goodwill with that name... I mean look at the number of virgin cable posters who claim that the service only got bad since it became virgin... When nothing changed but the name. The official name of O2 (uk) is now "Telefonica O2 (UK) limited." |
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Can anyone tell me, I remember years ago, back in the 90s(it feels strange saying that) an old friend buying a BT Cellnet/o2 simcard from 'the guy down on the market' but it was not official and was a plain card.
I cannot see how this was done though seen as the network has a set of numbers and simcard numbers or something? |
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