O2 and 'leccy firm's MNVO bid flops as £25m glugs down the drain

A new mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) planned by Scottish and Southern Energy has been switched off. The plan, as reported by Mobile magazine, was for the network to run on O2's infrastructure and use SSE’s customer base of 9.6 million customers. Two hundred thousand of those customers already have broadband and fixed …

[handle]

Lycra Mobile?

Have you let the Tour de France go to your head?

[Buzzword]

Re: Lycra Mobile?

It's a bit of a stretch...

[Anonymous IV]

Re: Lycra Mobile?

Probably just a Fraudian Slip...!

[Paul Shirley]

O2 hardly an appealing choice of network

Or maybe they belatedly noticed just how crap O2's network is...

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: O2 hardly an appealing choice of network

Not much to choose, IMHO. But as the OFGEM limitations on energy tariffs doesn't apply to non-energy business we still don't know why SSE didn't follow through. Perhaps somebody close to the deal might care to let the rest of us know?

[Chad H.]

Manx

I did email the correction, but Manx Telecom was sold by O2 in 2010.

[Anonymous Coward]

Fat chance

Given my brief and entirely unpleasant exposure to SSE's alleged "customer service", I'd struggle to think of a company worse suited to being a mobile provider.