BT and T-Mobile reach major network agreement

T-Mobile and BT Wholesale have announced a new agreement that sees BT link
thousands of T-Mobile's base station sites around the UK to the T-Mobile
network. The contract, potentially worth several hundred million pounds over
the next five years, will deliver T-Mobile a cost-efficient and flexible
next generation service to support its growth plans and help avoid any
investment risk in building out its own capability.

BT will connect thousands of T-Mobile's base stations around the UK to the
central T-Mobile network. Leased lines will be used to connect these sites
at first before an Ethernet-based service is introduced.

The new Ethernet service will further enhance the delivery of access and
backhaul services to T-Mobile. It will be designed and built to be fully
compatible with BT's 21st Century Network (21CN), the most advanced next
generation network (NGN) in the world.

More at
http://www.btplc.com/news/articles/s...bf027b87cdc%7d

Regards
Sunil

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:55:21 +0100, "Sunil Sood"
<news@soods.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>BT will connect thousands of T-Mobile's base stations around the UK to the
>central T-Mobile network.

Which begs the question, if thousands of T-Mobile's base stations
aren't connected to the T-Mobile network, which network are they
connected to?
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Sunil Sood wrote:
<snip>
Who do they lease their lines from at present then?


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> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:55:21 +0100, "Sunil Sood"
> <news@soods.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >BT will connect thousands of T-Mobile's base stations around the UK to the
> >central T-Mobile network.
>
> Which begs the question, if thousands of T-Mobile's base stations
> aren't connected to the T-Mobile network, which network are they
> connected to?

Probably Virgin, formerly NTL.
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"Jon" <spam@jonparker.plus.com> wrote in message
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> nickmooney@spamcop.net declared for all the world to hear...
>> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:55:21 +0100, "Sunil Sood"
>> <news@soods.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> >BT will connect thousands of T-Mobile's base stations around the UK to
>> >the
>> >central T-Mobile network.
>>
>> Which begs the question, if thousands of T-Mobile's base stations
>> aren't connected to the T-Mobile network, which network are they
>> connected to?
>
> Probably Virgin, formerly NTL.
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Not necessarily, in Scotland many mobile sites use thus, it is quite common
for one mobile company to have their own link to a site (probably because
they were first to build on that site) and other companies use that though
perhaps just back to a larger site where they can connect to their main
network.

MB

"Jon" <spam@jonparker.plus.com> wrote in message
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> nickmooney@spamcop.net declared for all the world to hear...
>> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:55:21 +0100, "Sunil Sood"
>> <news@soods.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> >BT will connect thousands of T-Mobile's base stations around the UK to
>> >the
>> >central T-Mobile network.
>>
>> Which begs the question, if thousands of T-Mobile's base stations
>> aren't connected to the T-Mobile network, which network are they
>> connected to?
>
> Probably Virgin, formerly NTL.

Close.
Telewest is / was T-Mobiles' national carrier. Therefore it's Virgin Media.

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:04:38 +0100, BGN wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:55:21 +0100, "Sunil Sood"
> <news@soods.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>BT will connect thousands of T-Mobile's base stations around the UK to the
>>central T-Mobile network.
>
> Which begs the question, if thousands of T-Mobile's base stations
> aren't connected to the T-Mobile network, which network are they
> connected to?

Certainly during the One2One days, the base stations were connected using
the Cable & Wireless/Mercury network. This probably made sense as One2One
(Mercury Personal Communications) was a C&W/MediaOne joint venture before
they were taken over by T-Mobile.

O2 used the least microwave links to connect to the backhaul due to having
been previously owned by BT - this gave them easy access to BT fibre, etc.

M.

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>

>
> Not necessarily, in Scotland many mobile sites use thus, it is quite
> common for one mobile company to have their own link to a site (probably
> because they were first to build on that site) and other companies use
> that though perhaps just back to a larger site where they can connect to
> their main network.
>
> MB
>

There's also the timeslot issue. It may well be that if 2 or 3 networks
share a single site in a remote area like the Highlands, they can share a
single 2Meg PCM link. One single network may well not need 30 timeslots, but
a couple of networks sharing the cost and responsiblity of the link, could
fill one up quite nicely.

Regards

Jon.

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