T-Mobile and O2 3G Cooperation

T-Mobile and O2 3G Cooperation

T-Mobile Deutschland and o2 Germany are expanding their cooperation to include shared usage of T-Mobile's UMTS network. The new agreement builds on the contract between the two network operators signed in the summer of 2001 and provides for the expanded use of T-Mobile's network by o2 customers. It had been agreed at the time that T-Mobile and o2 would cooperation in the construction of their UMTS networks.

The agreement now signed allows customers of the Munich-based network operator from the very start of the commercial marketing of UMTS services to T-Mobile's UMTS network wherever o2 does not have UMTS coverage of its own. This puts o2 in a position to offer its customers UMTS services sooner and over a larger geographical area.

In return, o2 will pay T-Mobile a total of EUR 210 million in 2003. T-Mobile Deutschland Managing Director and Chief Sales and Services Officer of T-Mobile International, Timotheus Höttges: "We are very pleased to be able to continue our good and long cooperation with o2 into the UMTS age. In this way, we have already generated notable income with our UMTS network even before the actual launch of the network."

A national roaming agreement for T-Mobile's GSM network has already been in effect since 1999. This allows o2 customers to use the T-Mobile network in areas where o2 has no network infrastructure of its own.

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