BT strikes mobile partnership with EE

BT will revive its consumer mobile operations by launching services under a partnership deal struck with EE, the UK’s largest mobile operator.

The two companies have agreed terms on a wholesale contract for BT to use the EE network, which includes its superfast 4G services, following a tender process. BT’s consumer mobile operations have been relatively forgotten in a wider corporate strategy that has focused on television and broadband in the past few years. BT already provides some mobile services, but mainly to businesses and the public sector. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. A BT executive, who wished not to be named, said that there was a significant opportunity in mobile telecoms, including offering its customers so-called “quad play” bundles of TV, broadband and fixed and mobile telecoms.