Vodafone and Three customers get free mobile | Tech News

For a few years the UK has had 4 main mobile networks. This continues to be technically the case, with EE, O2, Three and Vodafone sustaining nationwide networks with 2G, 4G and 5G signal as legacy 3G networks are shut down.

But in May 2025 the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) accepted the proposed merger of Vodafone and Three, which is now within the early phases of present as, handily, VodafoneThree.

Mobile customers of every company proceed to be so, VodafoneThree has been fast to level out the benefits of its slowly combining belongings. The firm claims that Vodafone customers can now take pleasure in enhanced mobile signal by utilizing Three’s protection when it advantages them, and vice versa.

Not solely that, the company has now launched an online postcode checker software to see in case your native space is benefitting from current mobile community upgrades.

VodafoneThree stated it has improved mobile community protection at more than 8,000 websites throughout the UK, which might erase 16,500 sq. kilometres of so-called ‘not-spots’, areas with little to no mobile signal.

New financial modelling – which you’ll be able to take with a pinch of salt because it was commissioned by consultancy firm WPI Strategy for VodafoneThree – says the elimination of these not-spots “would create 49,000 businesses and a £6.6bn boost to the economy by 2026.”

The survey discovered that poor mobile signal was a large impediment to entrepreneurship throughout the UK, with 62 p.c of people saying unreliable connectivity had stopped them from launching a native business.

You can entry the postcode checker from VodafoneThree right here.

For most Brits in areas with improved signal, it might merely imply having the ability to take a cellphone call with out having to be linked to home Wi-Fi, improved video calling when out and about, or more dependable video streaming on the bus to work.

VodafoneThree stated the protection enlargement would most positively have an effect on the North-West and South-East of England, and even singled out Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire as a city whose “enhanced connectivity could result in a £9 million boost to the local economy. ”

You are additionally set to benefit from the national community enhancements in case you are a buyer of a mobile digital community operator (MVNO) that makes use of both Vodafone or Three’s community. These embrace VOXI, Lebara, Asda Mobile, Talk Mobile, iD Mobile and Smarty.