Talk:The People's Operator

COI concern

Sorry to say, but I felt moved to place a conflict-of-interest template on this article, given the numerous promotional and personally-affiliated editors that have been building this article, documented here. - 50.153.112.1 (talk) 03:28, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Telegraph Unite accusation dubious

The telegraph story says "reveals that strike committees get free calls and texts ... 'TPO sim cards should be provided to all contacts to enable free text messaging and calls between strike committee members and activists.’" But this free text and calls between TPO phones is standard to all TPO customers, nothing special to Unite.[1] Other cheap operators like GiffGaff offer similar deals. This seems to me a non-story blown-up into an issue by parts of the press (it started in the Daily Mail) that have no love for Unite. What would be the balanced thing for us to do? I'm inclined to delete this Unite stuff. The alternative NPOV apprach seems to be to explain it is a standard part of the TPO offering to everyone. Rwendland (talk) 17:26, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Explaining that it is a standard part of the TPO offering by citing the TPO website, which doesn't make a connection with the accusations, is WP:SYN. Let's find a source that actually discusses the TPO offering of free whatever in relation to the accusations at hand and then we can put it in. Otherwise we have no way to know that what Rosenfeld is denying is actually the same as what TPO is offering.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 18:25, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Additionally, the fact that it started in the Daily Mail is a red herring since aspects of it were later covered in The Daily Telegraph (better) and The Times (best), and those are the sources we're using.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 18:36, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Tom Gutteridge

The Tom Gutteridge that is linked to from this article is not the same Tom Gutteridge that co-founded The People's Operator. According to the TPO site page about its board of directors, its Tom Gutteridge "co-founded Mass1 alongside Mark Epstein. At TPO he is responsible for the creative direction, brand development and is working with Jimmy Wales to develop the TPO online community". That doesn't sound like the bio of Wikipedia's Tom Gutteridge. I'd make the change in the article myself, but I have a conflict of interest with The People's Operator (I have an FCC complaint pending against the company), and plus I am an indefinitely blocked editor on English Wikipedia. - 2001:558:1400:10:8D5F:7FA7:7551:53E4 (talk) 18:33, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

 Done. generic_hipster 20:14, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

New TPO logo and link in infobox

Let me first say upfront I am directly connected with the subject, so I don't want to update the article myself.

This said, TPO has a new logo since mid-2015, which probably should be updated. Also in the infobox there is a link to Limited liability partnership as a company type. It could be a link to Limited liability partnerships in the United Kingdom, don't you think? Hołek ҉ 12:32, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

 Done. :) generic_hipster 00:01, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Move to TPO Mobile?

It seems the company has rebranded itself as TPO Mobile. The old name is still found in a couple places on their website. What do we do? Sole Flounder (talk) 13:46, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Their Facebook page is still happily calling themselves "The People's Operator". The bottom of their website still says, "© Copyright 2016 The People's Operator". Did the company actually announce, "we are changing our name"? Or, was it just sort of "noticed" by the media that they're going by a new name? Frankly and sadly, given the company's recent 4G service woes, the more pertinent question may not be what we call the company on Wikipedia, but whether we use the present or past tense to describe it. - Truth about MVNOs (talk) 03:50, 27 August 2016 (UTC)