Customers get a great mobile deal including free calls and texts to anyone on the TPO network.

ENGADGET: The People's Operator launches in the UK -- a charitable MVNO for data haters

Simply by switching to TPO, 10% of all call, text and data spend will get directed to their nominated cause.

ENGADGET: The People's Operator launches in the UK -- a charitable MVNO for data haters

Organisations can receive 10% of call, text and data spend in respect of any customers that they sign up to TPO.

ENGADGET: The People's Operator launches in the UK -- a charitable MVNO for data haters

Customers can direct TPO to give 10% of their call, text and data spend to a charity, community group or other good cause of their choice.

ENGADGET: The People's Operator launches in the UK -- a charitable MVNO for data haters

Summed up memorably by WH Auden in his verse Night Mail, cruelly misquoted above, the TPO made its first journey in 1838 from London to the Midlands.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Magazine | R.I.P. Mail trains

Staff members past and present, together with enthusiasts, see the death of the service as the real Great Train Robbery, as guestbook tributes lovingly left on TPO fan websites show.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Magazine | R.I.P. Mail trains

Charities, community groups and other good causes will receive grants from the TPO Foundation, an independent charity whose donations will have the ultimate effect of strengthening society and supporting local communities.

ENGADGET: The People's Operator launches in the UK -- a charitable MVNO for data haters