Right. More info.
It seems that sim free and locked to EE 920's will work on EE, T Mobile and Orange. Thinking about it all TMo and Orange phones now have the EE logo on their screens where signal is so this makes sense. Phones 4 u are now saying this too on their twitter feed.
However, it appears That Orange and TMo are not selling them directly (at least not yet) Perhaps so they don't breach the exclusivity to EE though technically it is kind of breached with their network structure being combined yet other networks are locked out.
EE is declaring that TMo and Orange are NOT part of the exclusivity deal but there is no way for them to network lock TMo and Orange users out without shutting down the whole EE service. The 3G/2g of TMo and Orange is what they fall back on when not in a 4G signal area., right?
It is all a bit mad and perhaps a little sneaky on EE's part.
Feel free to correct me if I am wrong but I am just going on what I have read tonight and thinking about it, it does make sense.
In some ways it is good because it gives a wider customer base but I get the feeling that EE isn't going to publicly state this.
Twitter feed of phones 4 u , note that Nokia UK joined in -