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UK-based cableco Virgin Media’s business unit, Virgin Media Business, has announced that it has inked a deal worth more than GBP100 million (USD160 million) to provide backhaul connectivity to Mobile Broadband Network Ltd (MBNL), the joint venture between British cellcos T-Mobile UK and H3G UK; customers of Orange UK will also benefit from the deal as the result of the formation of a joint venture, Everything Everywhere, between it and T-Mobile last year. According to Virgin Media, MBNL will be the first company to roll out the former’s seamless Sync-E solution, with the deployment reportedly enabling MBNL to support increased data traffic and ‘lay the foundations for a transition towards 4G’ [More]

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