We’ve worked with BT to provide mobile services for many years and will continue to work together in a number of areas. It will open up a whole new world of opportunity for Virgin Media as we focus on becoming the most recommended brand for customers and bring our mobile and broadband connectivity closer together in one package for one price.
Twenty years ago Virgin Mobile became the world’s first virtual operator and this new agreement builds on that heritage. “This agreement with Vodafone will bring a host of fantastic benefits and experiences to our customers, including 5G services in the near future. We have asked for further details on this. Speaking of which, Virgin Media’s business division (VMB) has also struck an “ extensive wholesale agreement” with Vodafone relating to the supply of various network services. Despite that any move to adopt Vodafone for Virgin Mobile would of course make a bigger agreement in the future a lot easier, if it were to ever occur.
ahead of the transition date).Īt this point it’s worth considering that Vodafone and Virgin Media have been repeatedly linked with a future asset swap or possible merger in the United Kingdom, although until now none of their earlier talks have turned into anything concrete (except elsewhere in the EU). 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. Despite this, in 2017 Virgin moved to extend their agreement with BT / EE, which is due to run until 2021 ( here). BT is now Virgin’s arch rival in both the fixed line and mobile space, not to mention TV). 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. Instead they’ve signed a new 5-year partnership deal for Virgin Mobile with rival operator Vodafone.
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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.