Articles tagged with: O2 Uk and Telefonica

Telefonica O2 Interesting in Buying T-Mobile UK

Telefonica's O2 subsidiary would be interested in putting in a bid for T-Mobile UK if its parent company, Deutsche Telekom decides to put it up for sale. In an interview with Financial Times Deutschland, Telefonica's European CEO, Matthew Key said that any acquisition would be likely to require an investigation by the UK's regulators as the merged company would have a market share in excess of 40%.  more

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O2 Signs UK Backhaul Contract with British Telecom

The UK's dominant landline operator, BT has announced a new managed network solutions agreement with Telefonica O2 that will see BT Wholesale provide and manage high speed connectivity between the majority of O2Ã's base stations and its core national network in the UK.  more

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Europe's Top Ten Networks - All Now Over 20m Customers

In Issue 98 of the Mobile World Briefing, when last reviewing the European market, we suggested that "if the normal seasonal pattern is repeated in Q4, then the final period of the year should see something between 25-30m new connections, enough to take penetration up to 110%". We mention this, because the normal seasonal pattern was repeated, we did see 25m new connections across the region and penetration is now standing at exactly 110%.  more

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Telefonica Appoints New UK Chief for O2, Management Changes

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Telefonica, Wednesday appointed Ronan Dunne as Chief Executive of its U.K. O2 mobile phone business, replacing Matthew Key who is taking up the position of Chief Executive and Chairman of Telefonica O2 Europe.  more

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