Three UK is the fourth-largest mobile network operator in the United Kingdom, with about 9.
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17 Facts About Three UK
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Three UK sold handsets, devices and contracts through independent and online retailers at the time.
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In 2005, Three UK expanded, and stores opened in larger shopping centres throughout the UK On 24 October 2006, Three UK announced that it had purchased 95 high street shops from O2 and The Link.
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Three UK launched SeeMeTV, allowing its customers to submit their own video content that other subscribers could watch.
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In 2010, Three UK became the fourth network in the UK to launch the iPhone 4 after O2, Orange and Vodafone.
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In July 2014, Three UK introduced the '3 inTouch' app, allowing customers to place calls through a Wi-Fi connection.
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Three UK said that while names and addresses were accessed, some financial information might be compromised.
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Three UK, which has nine million customers, said it believed around 400 phones had been stolen.
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Three UK was replaced by Three Ireland's CEO, Robert Finnegan, who now manages both companies.
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On 10 March 2022, Three UK announced they were ending their sponsorship deal with Chelsea immediately, and asked the club to remove the 3 logo from their kits.
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The 2G fallback coverage provided by Orange has since been removed as Three UK believes 3G and 4G technology is sufficient for mass adoption - and as a result, older phones that support only 2G networks are not compatible with the Three UK network.
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On 18 December 2007, T-Mobile and Three UK launched a 50:50 joint venture called Mobile Broadband Network Limited which aimed to combine both of their 3G networks and provide almost complete 3G population coverage by the end of 2008.
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Three UK began a limited rollout of 4G LTE services in December 2013 in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Reading expanding to over a further 450 locations by the end of 2014.
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Three UK planned to launch 4G in the second quarter of 2013, however it delayed the rollout until Q4, saying that it wanted to analyse the performance of other networks' 4G coverage first.
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Three UK changed the name of its roaming proposition from "Feel at Home" to "Go Roam", which now covers 59 countries and territories since 2017.
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Three UK network is used by two mobile virtual network operators.
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In 2010, Three UK was voted Best Network for Mobile Broadband in a YouGov survey for the second year in a row.
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