MSE News: Orange and T-Mobile to merge

OneADay

Whilst telephone experience with 3 can be a bit of a nightmare, their online email service is pretty good.

The core reason I would have liked 3 to join up with t-mobile is simply for the fact 3 offer lots of goodies which other networks do not - i.e. skype, ebay, msn messenger and when I last had contract with them, they used to give £5 of free downloads a month (so I could download the odd game now and then).

I ended my o2 contract to join t-mobile in june, as it was the cheapest option but I would have preferred 3 if the cost had been right and if they offered 12 month contracts.

SuiDreams

I was orginally with one2one (with their prepaid contract), then T-mobile (until they dropped that contract and tried to make me pay a lot more for a lot less), The Virgin, and now back to T-Mobile - thats probably 11 years of mobile usage. In that time I've always had a stronge signal, find current customer service with T-Mobile very helpful and polite, Do not want that to change

jammin_2

Frankly speaking, this is merging sh!te with sh!te.

Orange and T-Mobile both run on the GSM 1800mhz frequency, which is technologically inferior to GSM 900mhz, as used by both O2 and Vodafone in the UK.

OneADay

jammin wrote: »

Frankly speaking, this is merging sh!te with sh!te

I could not have put it better myself.:D

Althought French and German together - it will never work, we need the English to sort this out!:rotfl:

CLLC

One Good thing about these companies merging is because of Android run handsets , Good news for the android fanboys!

T-mobile have the G1 and G2 and Orange have the Hero combined they have the largest amount of android handsets. However, it could turn sour with the fact their would be little or No competition between them :rolleyes:

wizk1

CLLC wrote: »

T-mobile have the G1 and G2 and Orange have the Hero combined they have the largest amount of android handsets.

The G2 touch is the Hero. I reckon the G1 and original G2 would be phased out

Fork86

I don't think the g1 will be phased out as it has a physical qwerty keyboard and can also be offered as a cheaper alternative to the hero..?

There's going to be a big influx of new Android handsets. 02 already have the Samsung galaxy, while Vodafone have the htc magic. Sony Ericsson, Motorola and LG will soon be launching their own too.

Give it around 6 months, and Android market will eat the Apple one for breakfast.

wizk1

Fork86 wrote: »

Give it around 6 months, and Android market will eat the Apple one for breakfast.

Here's hoping. I'm probably not the only one fed up with Apple's cockiness. The Hero is actually an excellent handset. I've tried one before, and it's definitely going to be my next phone

Fork86

wizk1 wrote: »

Here's hoping. I'm probably not the only one fed up with Apple's cockiness. The Hero is actually an excellent handset. I've tried one before, and it's definitely going to be my next phone

Speaking as someone who has a Hero and is incidentally replying from it (wife has the magic which is also brilliant), you will end up loving your handset. It is just extremely joyful to use, intuitive, and with the new firmware upgrade in sight, 100% as slick and smooth as an iPhone 3gs.

cw18

G1, G2, Android, Hero.......

Now I'm totally lost :rolleyes2

As long as it makes and receives voice calls and texts (preferably with a QWERTY keyboard - now on my third handset with one, having first had 3 without) I don't have a clue what the rest it !!!!

(I do know my current one has a lot more as it can 'surf', which is what I got it for, and also has basic versions of word and excel. I do miss the calculator function though!!)