Three UK strengthens enterprise offering with appointment of Mike Tomlinson as Managing Director of Business

• Business market a key focus area for Three UK
• John Dunican appointed to dual role as Director of MVNO and Carrier Services in UK and Ireland

Three UK today announces the appointment of Mike Tomlinson as its new Managing Director of Business, responsible for scaling Three’s growing business division. In this newly created role, Mike will develop Three’s B2B presence in the UK, building on its SME offer announced in 2019 and its established private networks division.

Mike has a wealth of experience in the telecoms industry, having previously held roles at EE, Virgin and BT. His most recent experience, advising tech and telecoms firms on the broader B2B market, puts him in good stead to use Three’s major £2bn+ network investments to create modern and innovative solutions that help meet the evolving needs of UK businesses.

With a new enterprise IT platform provider, Amdocs, already on board, Mike will lead the strategic development and launch of a full suite of products for all segments of the B2B market including SME and large corporate. He started his new role at the beginning of August.

Robert Finnegan CEO Three UK said: “Our business division will be a key focus area for the company and Mike’s appointment is critical to helping us develop a leading position in the market. Mike has been in the industry a long time and has the knowledge and skillset to build on the strong foundations from our Three Means Business launch last year.”

Mike Tomlinson, Managing Director of Business Three, said: “I’m delighted to be joining Three and I’m excited by the opportunity to scale our growing business division at a time when Three is making significant investments in network, technology and customer experience.”

Three also announces that John Dunican has taken on the expanded role of Director of MVNO and Carrier Services for Three UK and Three Ireland.

John is responsible for driving the strategy and commercial performance of our MVNO, wholesale roaming, interconnect and messaging businesses across both territories.

He has more than 15 years telecoms experience having joined Telefonica O2 Ireland in 2004 and worked in a number of roles across Wholesale, Product Management and Business Strategy. He took on his current role dual UK and Ireland role in June 2020 having been Head of Wholesale at Three Ireland since January 2017.

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Three launched in 2003 as the UK’s first 3G only network, laying its foundations as the network that was born to be different. Today Three is a connectivity company that connects people to people, people to things and things to things and has 9.5 million customers.

An average Three customer uses 3.5 times more mobile data than the industry average and its network today covers 99% of the UK population.

Three launched 5G in August 2019 and also has the UK’s leading 5G spectrum holdings with more than the rest of the industry combined. Three is the only operator able to meet the International Telecoms Union (ITU) 2020 standard for full 5G services.

Three is the official shirt sponsor of Chelsea FC men’s and women’s teams.

Three was voted the Best Network for Data at the Mobile Choice Consumer Awards, as well as Best Network for Roaming by uSwitch, and the Best High Street Retailer at the Mobile Industry Awards.

Three UK is part of the CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd group of companies which has mobile operations in 11 countries. We employ more than 4,800 people across our offices in Maidenhead, Glasgow and Reading and our 311 retail stores.