T-Mobile UK
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| Formerly |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 7 September 1993 (as Mercury One2One) |
| Defunct | 1 July 2010 (company renamed Everything Everywhere Limited) February 2015 (as a brand of EE) |
| Fate | Merged with Orange UK |
| Successor | EE |
Area served | United Kingdom |
| Products | Mobile telecommunications products and services |
| Website | t-mobile |
T-Mobile (UK) Limited, trading as T-Mobile UK, was a mobile network operator in the UK. First launched as Mercury One2One (stylised one2one) on 7 September 1993, the network was originally operated by Mercury Communications. One2One was purchased by Deutsche Telekom in 1999, who rebranded it with their global T-Mobile brand name in 2002.
In 1999, One2One became the world's first network to provide wireless network infrastructure to a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) when Virgin Mobile was launched as a joint venture between One2One and Virgin Group.
In 2010, Orange UK merged into T-Mobile UK to form a joint venture, Everything Everywhere, which continued to operate the T-Mobile and Orange brands until March 2015 and allowed T-Mobile customers to utilise Orange's 2G signal and vice versa.
In 2012, Everything Everywhere launched their new network branding as EE. T-Mobile SIM cards remained fully supported by EE, who are ultimately owned by BT since they acquired the company in January 2016 for £12.5 billion.