Hutchison 3G UK says that it has signed its first ever MVNO wholesale contract - with telecoms distributor Gamma Telecom. Under the deal Gamma Telecom will offer an own-branded business mobile voice and data service using the 3 network. The service will be targeted at small to medium-sized businesses (SME) and will be taken to market via Gamma''s channel of more than 300 independent resellers.

The Gamma own-brand business mobile service will complement 3''s existing direct small business offer and represents a new route into the high-margin SME market for the operator.

Gamma Telecom is one of the UK''s largest providers of voice services and voice applications, switching in excess of 8 billion minutes per annum and supplying service via its channel partners to over 100,000 UK businesses and over 400,000 residential customers.

It may be noted that Skype, which offers its free VoIP service via Hutchison''s 3G network had a disagreement with Gamma Telecom last year which resulted in the withdrawal of thousands of central London landline numbers from its corporate SkypeIn users.



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