| Industry | Telecommunications |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1 July 2010 (by the merger of Orange UK and T-Mobile UK) |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Area served | United Kingdom |
| Key people | Olaf Swantee (CEO) |
| Employees | 16,000[1] |
| Parent | Deutsche Telekom (50%) France Télécom (50%) |
| Subsidiaries | Orange UK T-Mobile UK |
| Website | www.everythingeverywhere.com |
Everything Everywhere Limited is a mobile network operator and internet service provider company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest mobile network operator in the UK, with around 28 million customers.[2] It operates under both the Orange and T-Mobile brands and currently only offers its services within the UK.
Everything Everywhere is a 50-50 joint venture between Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom and was formed in 2010 through the merger of their respective T-Mobile (UK) and Orange U.K. businesses.[3][4]
In addition to London, Everything Everywhere has main offices in Bristol and Hatfield.[1]
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Everything Everywhere began operations on 11 May 2010.[5] On 22 June 2010 Everything Everywhere announced plans to roll out HD voice calling throughout its network by the end of summer. The technology will first be trialled on Orange's network in Bristol, Reading and Southampton, before being expanded to the rest of the UK by the end of summer.[6][7]
On 25 August 2010 it was announced that Vringo (a provider of video ringtones and personalization solutions) was entering into a partnership with 'Everything Everywhere' which would bring Vringo's video ringtones service to Everything Everywhere's customers, with content initially available only to Orange UK customers through the network's web, WAP and mobile application brands.[8] On 3 September 2010 Everything Everywhere announced that it was opening up its two mobile networks to customers of both the Orange and T-Mobile brands with effect from 5 October 2010.[9] On 30 September 2010 Everything Everywhere announced 1,200 job cuts, representing around 7.5% of its 16,000-strong workforce. The jobs will go from back office, headquarters and management, with no cuts among customer service or store staff.
On 27 January 2011 Everything Everywhere and Barclaycard announced that they would be jointly introducing the UK's first contactless mobile payments system for consumers by early summer 2011.[10]
On 18 July 2011 Tom Alexander announced he would step down as CEO of Everything Everywhere. He was replaced on 1st September 2011 by Olaf Swantee[9] On 2 November 2011 Everything Everywhere announced plans to cut a further 550 back office staff, with its sites in Bristol, Darlington, Hatfield and Paddington affected.[11][12]
Virgin Mobile UK operates on the Everything Everywhere network under a MVNO agreement, which was most recently renegotiated in December 2010.[13]
On 3 September 2010 Everything Everywhere announced that Orange would join Mobile Broadband Network Ltd (MBNL), the 3G network sharing joint venture formed in December 2007 between T-Mobile UK and Hutchison 3G UK (H3G UK). MBNL will become a 50/50 joint venture between Three UK and Everything Everywhere, with Orange contributing several thousand of its base stations for network sharing purposes.[14] MBNL was created after T-Mobile and Three UK agreed to pool their respective 3G infrastructures in a 50/50 joint venture. At present MBNL’s HSPA-based infrastructure covers more than 90% of the British population, and by the end of 2010 this figure is expected to rise to more than 98%, with the joint venture having already consolidated more than 7,000 of the 12,500 cell sites that the initial two partners had said will be merged by October 2010.[14]
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