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O2 to rival Google and PayPal with new mobile payments service

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O2 Wallet may mean trouble for joint venture with rival operators, says analyst
27 Apr 2012

O2 offers financial backing for local authority IT projects

People working at Hackney Council
70 per cent of council IT departments believe budget cuts are a significant obstacle to adopting new technologies
27 Apr 2012

Everything Everywhere spectrum sale could speed up 4G rollout

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Rival operators could use 1800 MHz spectrum to deliver 4G services
10 Apr 2012

O2 experiment finds more than one-third of staff work better remotely

3,000 workers stayed at home as O2 closed its head office in the remote working experiment, which also saved 2,000 hours of commuting time
03 Apr 2012

Telefónica backs UK's tech start-ups with academy launch

Select UK projects to receive financing, expert advice and a workplace
08 Mar 2012

Rail operator awards major network upgrade deal to O2 Unify

Three-year, multimillion pound deal to refresh Network Rail's Cisco kit
09 Jan 2012

O2 trials 4G network in London

Speeds are expected to be on par with super-fast fibre broadband connections
14 Nov 2011

O2 signs major mobile comms deal with BSkyB

O2 hopes the deal will pave the way for business outside of mobile
01 Nov 2011

Ofcom set to delay 4G auction

Network operator Three believes the larger networks are deliberately holding up proceedings
06 Sep 2011

Orange needs more juice


22 Jun 2011

Everything Everywhere, O2 and Vodafone launch m-commerce platform

Joint venture will enable consumers to pay for goods and services using mobile phones
16 Jun 2011

O2: 4G spectrum auction is illegal under EU law

The telecoms company claims that the taxpayer could be £1bn out of pocket
10 Jun 2011

Co-operative signs up O2 to offer location-based marketing

Customers within half a mile of a store will be offered freebies
05 May 2011

Plans for 2012 Underground mobile access hit buffers

Dream on, say network providers
01 Apr 2011

O2 to launch mobile wallet this year

Operator will start rolling out contactless mobile payment solutions in the second half of the year
04 Feb 2011

O2 improves network with Nokia Siemens deal

Mobile phone operator aims to improve capacity, coverage and performance
31 Jan 2011

Facilities management giant adopts unified communications

Mature technology and price competition persuade OCS to sign £5m managed contract with Azzurri
28 Jan 2011

O2 will roll out UK-wide hotspots by 2013

Businesses reminded to focus on security while providers must improve ease of use
26 Jan 2011

O2 says UK users wasting millions on wrong broadband packages

Most users have more broadband than they know what to do with, apparently
03 Sep 2010

CWU accepts BT pay deal

87 per cent vote in favour of nine per cent, three-year deal
09 Aug 2010

BT mulls bid for mobile broadband radio spectrum

But a move into the mobile arena is not high on its list of priorities
03 Aug 2010

Smartphone devices increasingly difficult to support, says Vodafone

Devices communicate to the network even when there is no user activity
28 Jul 2010

O2 scraps 'unlimited' broadband tariff

Mobile broadband data downloads swamp mobile networks
11 Jun 2010

Is the T-Mobile and Orange merger good for IT managers?

T-Mobile combining with Orange will create the UK's biggest mobile operator, but can they prise market share off Vodafone and O2?
09 Sep 2009