BT Mobile
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BT Mobile is a mobile virtual network operator
Mobile virtual network operator
A mobile virtual network operator is a company that provides mobile phone services but does not have its own licensed frequency allocation of radio spectrum, nor does it necessarily have all of the infrastructure required to provide mobile telephone service...

 (MVNO) in the UK, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 and the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 which uses the Vodafone UK, Vodafone Spain
Vodafone Spain
Vodafone España, S.A.U. is a mobile telecommunications operator in Spain headquartered in Alcobendas, Madrid. The company was founded in 2000, as a result of the merger of the shares held by Vodafone Group plc and British Telecommunications plc in Airtel Móviles, S.A....

, Vodafone Italy
Vodafone Italy
Vodafone Italia is an Italian mobile telephony operator. The company has 31,000,000 customers and a market share of 33.4%, placing it just behind TIM...

 and 6Gmobile
6Gmobile
6GMOBILE is a Dutch telecommunications operator that combines mobile , fixed voice and Internet technologies into a single network. It is fully licensed and operational as a GSM operator in the Netherlands.-Company history:...

 network. It is part of the BT Group
BT Group
BT Group plc is a global telecommunications services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is one of the largest telecommunications services companies in the world and has operations in more than 170 countries. Through its BT Global Services division it is a major supplier of...

.

BT Mobile is a successful MVNO in the UK particularly within the Corporate and Business sectors. BT Mobile encompasses not only GSM but all wireless telecoms technologies and leads the field in Fixed-Mobile convergence. It also has a WiMax
WiMAX
WiMAX is a communication technology for wirelessly delivering high-speed Internet service to large geographical areas. The 2005 WiMAX revision provided bit rates up to 40 Mbit/s with the 2011 update up to 1 Gbit/s for fixed stations...

license and a LPGSM license.

Convergence With Other Products

BT Mobile in the UK is now often converged within other BT products. One such example is BT's current Fixed Line Broadband offering named "Broadband Anywhere" as well as their recent new product of mobile broadband which allows the customer to connect their PC or laptop to the internet via a USB Dongle which connects to the BT Mobile network.

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