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O2 boosted as it gains a million new customers

25.02.11
Telefonica Europe, which includes Britain's O2 network, predicts surging demand for smartphones will mean one in three customers will own one by the end of this year... more

O2 set to spend on networks for smartphones

11.11.10
The boss of O2 UK says his company will raise spending on its networks to support demand for smartphones... more

Phorm plunges on Brazilian update

22.09.10
Shares in Phorm slump nearly 20% after a seemingly innocuous update to the market on its technology trial in Brazil... more

O2 hailing iPhone 4 as the best launch yet

29.07.10
O2, the Spanish-owned mobile phones network, declares that the iPhone 4 launch had been the most successful seen in the UK... more

Telefonica sells Manx Telecom

04.06.10
Manx Telecom, the Isle of Man telephone service where 3G phones were first trialled and launched back in 2001, has been sold... more

Richard Glynn eyes big prize but is he right for Ladbrokes?

01.04.10
Good luck to Richard Glynn and his potential £12 million golden hello to take over the reins from Chris Bell running Ladbrokes. He’s going to need every horseshoe, four-leafed clover and rabbit’s foot he can lay his hands on ... more

Apple iPhone puts a unique flourish into O2

12.11.09
Thanks to its exclusive rights to the Apple iPhone, O2 — the mobile arm of Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica — today claimed to be the only UK network to have grown revenues in the last three months ... more

Vodafone eyes UK coup with T-Mobile bid

29.06.09
The biggest shake-up in the UK's mobile phone industry for more than a decade is under way with Vodafone looking to buy its German-owned rival T-Mobile... more

Numis appoints Blair's 'Red Tape Czar' chairman

05.05.09
Stockbroking house Numis moved to beef-up its board by appointing two City big-hitters ... more

Vodafone, Telefonica to share Europe network sites

23.03.09
Vodafone and Telefonica have agreed to share network infrastructure in four European countries to meet a surge in demand for mobile broadband while saving hundreds of millions of pounds in costs... more

Brutal times at Barclays as jobs axe falls

08.12.08
"Brutal Barclays" is what they are calling the bank these days. Internally, that is ... more

Phone group O2 'is number one in UK'

14.11.08
Mobile phone group O2 claim top position in the UK with more than 20 million customers... more

O2 renames Brixton Academy and Shepherd’s Bush Empire

06.11.08
Mobile phone company O2 has won naming rights to three popular London music venues as part of an ambitious expansion of its music empire... more

Dealmaking Influential who won’t take no for an answer

08.10.08
INTERVIEW Customer focus is all-important to O2 boss Matthew Key, and his three major coups for the company make him an obvious choice for our top five in London business... more

Renault fortunes driven by Alonso

04.07.08
Renault's Formula One team must be keener than ever to keep star driver Fernando Alonso after figures showed the huge financial impact when he quit to join McLaren two seasons ago... more

Spanish accuse mobile firms

03.07.08
Vodafone and two of its European mobile phone rivals have been told by Spanish regulators that they illegally agreed to raise charges at the same time last year... more

News Corp eyes up pay-TV pair

27.06.08
Media giant News Corp is said to be considering a bid for two major European pay-TV broadcasters - Germany's Premiere and Spain's Digital+... more

O2 is staying on the right lines

14.05.08
O2 outperformed its rivals in the first quarter and said it had seen no significant drop in customer spending or usage despite the High Street slowdown... more


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