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Why the financial industry is turning to the cloud. Skip to Content Skip to Footer. The transition to EE starts today. Featured Resources Turning data into unmatched business value Using data to drive better outcomes Free Download. For customers it will mean bigger network and better coverage, while reducing the number of stations and sites — which is good for cost reduction as well as being good for the environment.

Later this year, customers will experience the first benefits of the merger, with the ability to roam across both networks at no additional cost.

The company intends to do that by offering an excellent level of service, with the best-trained and motivated people helping customers.

Acceleration in new markets The company intends to propel itself beyond mobile communications, with a greater focus in developing new revenue streams based on the way customers will use their devices in the future. With greater scale, the company intends to develop new revenue streams in adjacent markets, such as mobile advertising and mobile commerce. EE puts that at covering a third of the population of the UK.

We were given an ever-so brief glimpse at incoming devices for the new 4G service -- Brits can expect to pick up devices from Samsung, Nokia, Huawei and more "in the coming weeks" -- the same timeframe that with encompass the launch of the network to its customers after testing. It even dropped a iPhone-tinged "one more thing" that more devices are incoming.

Possibly something we'll hear about tomorrow. Everything Everywhere today announced the launch of EE - the UK's most advanced digital communications company. EE will become the new name of the Everything Everywhere business and its network. EE will also be launched as a new superfast customer brand in the coming weeks. It is a brand born in the digital age, designed to serve both consumers and businesses, offering the UK's only 4G mobile service and complemented by fixed-line fibre broadband.

Together they will provide mobile services to 27 million people, now served by the UK's biggest and best network. The EE customer brand will launch with 4G services for consumers and businesses in the coming weeks. It will be the first brand in the country to offer a mobile 4G service — the pioneering new technology that offers superfast mobile internet at speeds typically five times faster than 3G speeds today.

EE will also launch a fibre broadband service to homes and businesses with fixedline internet speeds typically ten times faster than today's average broadband speeds. It means that EE's 4G customers will be the first in the UK to enjoy superfast speeds on their mobile and at home or at work. Four cities — London, Bristol, Cardiff and Birmingham — are switched on today for the company's engineers to begin live testing and systems integration, in readiness for the customer launch.

EE's 4G network will cover a third of the UK population in — over 20 million people — and customers on the EE brand will also have access to the largest 3G network in the UK outside of the 4G cities. Remember Rabbit? Where did it hop to? EE will also need to be confident its network is 4G ready. To launch services with significant marketing costs, potentially crippling handset subsidies, as well as a limited range of handset — EE will have to be confident in its infrastructure.

A failed launch could have a serious negative effect on the take up of 4G services for all of the operators and for the UK economy. Whether the full benefit of 4G will be transformative in the UK will depend on how it is executed, the services offered and consumer take-up. Being a first mover in telecoms is not always an advantage.

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