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Virgin Media Business and Telefonica announce 10-year mobile data fibre deal

Charlee Gothard

Charlee Gothard

12 July 2013 • 1 min read

Backhaul deal will give O2 customers better data service in UK

Virgin Media Business has signed a 10-year mobile data capacity deal with Telefonica that should see O2 customers benefiting from faster mobile data access. Virgin will be connecting base statio...

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