When you purchase a phone you require to select a network – O2, Vodafone, Orange, and T-mobile are cellphone networks. Each network is a collection of radio towers throughout the country, linked together as well as transmitting people’s discussions.
A smartphone solution typically comes as a bundle, comprised of the phone itself and access to a network. There are five main mobile phone networks in the UK – O2, T-Mobile, Orange, Vodafone, and most just recently ‘3’ with its expanding third-generation network which can sustain mobile video. Other operators such as Virgin and BT Mobile use the 5 major networks and there are many airtime resellers dealing with one or all of the networks.