3 suffers setback in MNP dispute

3 sufffered a setback on Friday (18th Jan) when a judge ruled it could not have access to it’s rivals documents and emails. 3 hoped this access would prove that Vodaone, O2 (NYSE: TEF), Orange, and T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) colluded to slow down the process of customers keeping their number when they ported networks….

Each of the other networks maintain that their common position on MNP (Mobile Number Portability) was not the result of collusion, but of their own commercial interests.

The Judge in question ruled the scope of 3’s request lacked ’specificity’, and the scale of disclosure ‘beyond and probable scope of standard disclosure’.

Despite the dismissal of the application, 3 is expected to press on with the case.

[Via: Mobile magazine]