Starbucks Algerian store in Algiers. In January 2011, Starbucks and Tata Coffee, Asia's largest coffee plantation company, announced plans for a strategic alliance to bring Starbucks to India and also to source and roast coffee beans at Tata Coffee's Kodagu facility. Despite a false start in 2007, in January 2012, Starbucks announced a 50:50 joint venture with Tata Global Beverages called Tata Starbucks. Tata Starbucks will own and operate Starbucks outlets in India as "Starbucks Coffee "A Tata Alliance"". Starbucks opened its first store in India in Mumbai on October 19, 2012. In February 2011, Starbucks started selling their coffee in
Virgin Mobile UK begun decommissioning masts where Orange already had coverage and began merging their signal with Orange as Virgin have contracts with T-Mobile until 2014. However, as part of the merger, Virgin Media has a joint agreement with EE to use its masts, and will seamlessly change between a T-Mobile UK mast and an Orange mast where there is no signal from T-Mobile since early October 2011. A phone roaming on the T-Mobile masts is marked as "Virgin", whereas a phone roaming on the Orange masts is marked as "virgin". On 7 November 2016, Virgin Media launched 4G to all their regular