Network infrastructure sharing with Three

Hello
I have recently moved to a remote location and was told that Vodafone worked well. Knowing Lebara used the Vodafone network I jumped ship from O2. Sadly my friend who's phone works well with Vodafone only works well because of using the same network infrastructure as EE who has recently merged with Vodafone. Lebara appears to only use Vodafone network. Does anyone know if Lebara will be able to use the EE network in the future? Many thanks

Hey Geoanon ee and Vodafone are completely different networks and there are no current plans for the 2 to merge and share their infrastructure.

Martin thanks. So i understand that Vodafone has merged with EE and both use each others network. Lebara, however, which uses the Vodafone network only infrastructure does not yet have access to the EE infrastructure. Can you confirm i am correct and if you know of any changes in the future for Lebara to make use of the merger that may alleviate my inability to get signal? Many thanks