The last thing we need is less competition!

I use mobile internet a lot but dont tend to text or call that much. However its impossible to get a plan with decent data without getting lumped with "free" minutes and texts that I dont need or want.

I recently bought a G1 outright so I can have the flexibility of a 1 month sim only contract in the hope that soon a plan would come out that doesn't force me to buy minutes or texts that I never use. It looks like that might take a bit longer now that T-Mobile is on the rocks!

For all their many and varied attempts to come up with a compelling mobile offering via the MVNO route, this might tempt them back into having their own network again. Triple play, and all that.

Stranger things have happened...

that's not good news - i moved off o2 because they were sh**e, I refused to go to Vodafone years ago after being charged for bills and retrieving my own voicemail and Orange never had any signal so T-Mob was my only choice (or 1-2-1 when I joined, ah, them were the days)

Having been with T-Mobile for only 3 months (and have tried o2, Vodafone and Orange) I am confident that they really are crap. If Vodafone merged and I could use their masts I'd actually get a signal in my house, which I don't currently.

* throws this crappy handset at t-mobile *

T mobile are crap, and always have been in my experience, i have them as my work phone provider, the firmwares they fill phones with is needlessly branded and clunky and the reception is pants anywhere in the country, everyone i know who has been on T-Mobile hated it

o2 FTW die Tmobile DIE!

Damn it, T-Mobile's been the best network I've been on so far, if it changes to Virgin I'm going back to O2.

(Curse you branson, may you catch a prickly disease on your gonads).

Maybe they should bid for Tiscali, the main website's been down (again) for 1/2 hour+.

To those complaining about T-Mobile's service, I think nowadays it's very much the case that they're all just as bad as each other. When getting a mobile contract I just go for the bottom line, as everything else (poor offshored customer service, charges for 08 numbers and voicemail, limits on "unlimited" data tariffs) is basically the same.

No doubt whoever ends up buying them will just adopt the same business practices.

So finally after all this time they are going.

May I be the first to wish that they don't get a buyer and go bust properly.

These monkeys screwed up my old contract so badly I left in disgust, and after paying the FINAL BILL in full, was sent another FINAL BILL. And then after that was sorted another FINAL BILL..... that ended up with them backing down just short of court.

Grave, cause I'll be dancing on theirs

T - Mobile is the ONLY network we use now at work.

Vodafone, Orange and O2 have some terrible reception areas. O2 used be proud to "cover the most are with the least number of masts" but this meant that they got full quickly.

T-mobile Internet USB dongles are only £15 a a month for internet connect (as opposed to Vodafones £45 & again they work when Vodafones don't - we had both)

Vodafone used to be THE network for coverage, but that all fell be the way at the end of the ninetys as the others caught up.

I will for one will cross my fingers that T-mobile are left alone.

Had some horrendous bills off Vodafone for mobile internet a few years ago.

Having found 0800-buster etc to avoid the joke 40p/min rates to phone utility companies I'm very happy with my tmobile sim-only contract. £20/month for internet and unlimited texts. Signal can be crap in the sticks but hey-ho. They will no doubt scrap the solo plans if voda get hold of t-mobile. They should be stopped!