T-Mobile UK secures MVNO deal with Vectone Mobile

Builds on T-Mobile’s leadership in the wholesale market

London, UK “ 1 October, 2009:

The well-established European mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Vectone Mobile, is partnering with T-Mobile UK to extend its services to the UK market with the launch today of its low-cost prepay service. Vectone Mobile is a pan-European mobile brand with a customer base of more than one million in five countries including Denmark, Norway, Austria, The Netherlands and Switzerland.

This latest partnership augments T-Mobile’s lead in the wholesale market with a market share of more than 50% and is the first significant collaboration with a MVNO that predominantly targets an ethnic customer base. The ethnic calling market is strategically important with around 10 million subscribers in the UK generating more than 7 billion calls per anum.

T-Mobile UK Managing Director Richard Moat said: We are delighted to be supporting Vectone’s ambitious expansion plans for the UK market. The deal with Vectone signals our intent to become a major player in the ethnic MVNO arena. With international calling card minutes rapidly migrating to mobile, this is an excellent time to be forging new partnerships in a segment which is showing signs of bucking the recession with strong projected growth rates. Vectone builds on our eight existing MVNO partnerships and underlines our ambitions to target new growth areas in the wholesale market.

Vectone Mobile is a prepay service offering low call rates for local, national and international calls, plus savings on SMS and roaming. All customers need to activate the service is a Vectone Mobile SIM card and they can top-up online or by buying vouchers from shops displaying the Vectone Mobile sign.

About T-Mobile UK

T-Mobile is one of the world’s largest mobile operators with more than 148 million customers worldwide and is the service provider of choice for 16.7 million customers in the UK. T-Mobile offers a range of innovative products and services, such as Solo, the SIM-only plan, Combi, a traditional minutes and text package, and Flext, the UK’s first flexible tariff. T-Mobile continues to innovate with new devices such as the UK’s first Androidâ„¢-based smart phone, the T-Mobile G1, now with over 1,000 available applications. T-Mobile has pioneered the mobile internet, and operates an award-winning 3G network with speeds of up to 4.5Mbps. As a pioneer of deep network sharing in the UK, T-Mobile plans to deliver close to complete population coverage for 3G services in 2010.

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