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Thomas Simon Alexander (born March 1959) [1] is a British businessman and former chief executive of Orange and T-Mobile. [2]
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Thomas Simon Alexander (born March 1959) [1] is a British businessman and former chief executive of Orange and T-Mobile. [2]
Alexander attended Millfield, the independent school, as a day scholar from 1971-75.
Alexander set up and founded Virgin Mobile, which was launched in November 1999 with his colleague from BT Cellnet, Jo Steel. He left Virgin Mobile in 2006. [2]
In 2007 Alexander became CEO of Orange UK and in September 2009 he was informed by his parent company of a plan (in which he was not initially involved) to merge Orange UK and T-Mobile UK to form EE Limited. He became the first Chief Executive of EE. [3]
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