CK Hutchison (Three) to sue EE over coverage.

d123

An interesting development to the MBNL partnership.

Three has launched legal action against rival EE over £167million it says has been lost on a deal to share mobile internet infrastructure.

When Orange and T Mobile merged in 2010 to form EE, one of the conditions of the deal being approved was that Three, which had shared its network with T Mobile, would be able to access 3,000 of EE’s 3G phone masts.

Court papers suggest that in six years EE has enabled Three to use fewer than half the masts it originally promised, giving access to just 1,301 sites over that period.

Three, which is owned by CK Hutchinson, claims this has got in the way of it being able to provide coverage to its customers in areas where EE has yet to allow Three to use its masts.


Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-3605522/Three-begins-167m-lawsuit-rival-EE-row-phone-masts.html#ixzz49aIQyfbb

One interesting point to come from this. Anyone saying that Three has the same 3G coverage as EE because they share 3G infrastructure is actually wrong, EE not only has the superior 4G converge but also superior 3G coverage with 1700 3G cell sites not being shared with Three.

Atasas

funny games.../
In practical terms- EE is way faster in both 3 and 4G areas of COVERAGE, but somehow, in the areas of my usage it had appeared to me, that the "reliability" as IE driving of "3" was little bit better.