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MmO2 Boss Earns Bonus As Firm Makes £10bn Loss
News Peter Erskine pulled in more than £1m last year while his company posted a £10.2bn loss. Erskine took a salary of £540,000, up from £450,000 last year; a bonus of £390,000 for hitting financial targets, £50,000 from an old BT incentive plan and £40...
[June 17, 2003, 14:53]
Orange, MmO2, T-Mobile Swap Photo Messages
News Orange, mmO2 and T-Mobile have begun to correct one of the dirty little secrets of the widely hyped Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) technology: that it does not work across different companies' networks.
[January 27, 2003, 16:05]
MmO2 To Offer I-mode In Europe
News mmO2 has announced it's signed with NTT DoCoMo to offer the Japanese giant's i-mode mobile Internet service on its network. The operator will make i-mode available to its 22 million customers in the UK, Germany and Ireland using 2/2.5G and 3G...
[December 1, 2004, 13:30]
MmO2 'super' 3G Due Next Summer
News mmO2 plans to launch what it believes will be Europe's first truly high-speed 3G mobile data network next summer on the Isle of Man. Manx Telecom, mmO2's subsidiary telco on the island, ran the first tests of regular 3G services outside Japan in...
[December 9, 2004, 15:45]
MmO2: We've Stopped The BT Rot
News The chief executive of mobile operator mmO2 told the CeBIT trade show on Wednesday that his business had made a dramatic recovery from the state it was in when it was floated on the stock market in 2001.
[March 17, 2004, 12:35]
MmO2 To Roll Out Wi-Fi Across UK
News British mobile phone operator mmO2 said on Tuesday it was planning to roll out wireless LAN services across the UK, as it reported steady growth in mobile data revenues. MmO2, Europe's fifth-largest wireless network, also gave its first update on...
[July 2, 2003, 8:53]
MmO2 To Push Corporate Services Over GPRS
News MmO2 is targeting the lucrative mobile workforce market with a new range of data services that will give employees faster wireless access to corporate information and the Internet. The network operator -- which was spun off from BT last year...
[February 19, 2002, 15:05]
MmO2 Revenues Lift Off With Texting Boost
News Mobile operator mmO2 has achieved significant increases in customer numbers, and a rise in the average amount that each user is spending on mobile services. In the three months to the end of June 2003, mmO2 signed up just over half a million new...
[July 22, 2003, 15:55]
Self-Service Initiative Puts The Customer Front And Center At MmO2 Plc
White Papers mmO2, which now operates under the brand name O2, is keenly aware that products and services, alone, cannot guarantee customer satisfaction. Consequently, O2 continually strives to delight its subscribers with a customer service experience that...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
MmO2 Sells Off Dutch Unit
News Mobile phone giant mm02, formerly known as BT Wireless, has announced it is to sell its Dutch operation, O2 Netherlands, for £17m. The decision will cost mm02 a £1.4bn charge on top of the 2bn euros that it has invested in the subsidiary over the...
[April 15, 2003, 13:02]
BT's Bonfield To Quit After MmO2 Demerger
News Sir Peter Bonfield, chief executive of British Telecommunications (BT), is to leave his post at the end of January, nearly a year earlier than planned. His departure caps off a six-year career with the company and will net him a nearly £1.5m payout.
[October 31, 2001, 11:01]
O2 Sorts Out High-speed Wireless
News Mobile operator mmO2 has been sorting out where it will be setting out its stall for the alphabet soup of connectivity of the future. EDGE, for one, is out, as is the company's own Wi-Fi network, due to a lack of business case, according to the...
[January 28, 2005, 8:20]
BEA And HP Create Flexible, Resilient O2 Active Portal
White Papers mmO2 is a leading mobile service provider with nearly 21 million customers throughout Germany, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. The challenges faced by mmO2 included optimising image presentation, having to utilise both the WAP and Short Message...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Government Hails EC's 3G Green Light
News The UK government has given its backing to the European Commission's decision to allow T-Mobile and mmO2 to share third-generation mobile network infrastructure, and insisted that it has long been in favour of such a move.
[September 12, 2002, 13:39]
Europe's First 3G Network Goes Live
News Europe's first 3G mobile network was permanently switched on on Wednesday as Manx Telecom, a subsidiary of BT off-shoot mmO2, began trials on the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man network, built in partnership with Siemens and NEC, is currently made up...
[December 5, 2001, 18:02]
BlackBerry Hits UK Today
News MmO2, formerly BT Cellnet, is to finally deliver the long-awaited BlackBerry wireless email device to business customers on Wednesday, building on the gadget's striking success in the US. The launch opens up possibilities for growth into the...
[September 19, 2001, 8:30]
BT And Vodafone Converge On Bluephone
News BT has teamed up with Vodafone for business and consumer mobile services, replacing respectively mmO2 and T-Mobile. BT took the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) route after exiting the business when mmO2 was spun off in 2001.
[May 18, 2004, 15:05]
BT To Bundle Wi-Fi And GPRS
News BT is planning to team up with its former mobile arm mmO2 to add GPRS functionality to the Wi-Fi packages offered by BT Openzone. By bundling the two services together in one package, BT Openzone will be able to promise its subscribers a usable...
[October 4, 2002, 14:00]
O2 Halves The Value Of Its UK 3G Licence
News The UK's mobile phone industry took another body blow on Wednesday as mmO2 announced it had made a pre-tax loss of £10.2bn, and admitted that it paid well over the odds for its third-generation licences.
[May 21, 2003, 10:35]
O2 Expects Little 3G Interest This Year
News UK mobile operator O2 will offer third-generation handsets and laptop data cards to UK customers this autumn, but doesn't expect to see significant demand for its 3G service until 2005. MmO2, O2's parent company, said on Tuesday that it is still on...
[May 18, 2004, 14:10]
