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O2 runs off with Orange award
News Always much anticipated, this year the final prize of the CSC Business Leader of the Year award went to Peter Erskine, O2's chief executive. Erskine may have been tempted towards smugness in the face of the polite, rather than raucous applause he...
[November 10, 2005, 11:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Spoken with some feeling by heroic CEO Peter Erskine: bet there are some red faces among those who used to manage Cellnet and BT Mobile before the float. We'll have to ask the bloke who was in charge back then - hm, some cat called Peter Erskine.
[March 19, 2004, 17:05]
Cellnet will miss summer target: Forrester
News The analyst foresees a number of problems for Cellnet's rollout of GPRS, which managing director Peter Erskine, promised would arrive ahead of its rivals. A Forrester report published Wednesday has dismissed BT Cellnet's claims of providing a full...
[March 30, 2000, 11:11]
Photos: From Sony Ericsson to Segways
News T-Mobile's chief executive officer Rene Obermann and Peter Erskine, the chairman and chief executive of O2. With around 50,000 attendees, this year's 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona was the biggest in the show's history.
[February 16, 2006, 14:45]
Pay-as-you-surf WAP arrives, Cellnet steals a first
News This is the turning point for mobile Internet," says BT Cellnet managing director Peter Erskine, "It happens now. WAP finally went mass market Monday, with the launch of the UK's first pre-pay handset.
[April 3, 2000, 16:03]
3GSM Preview: On with the show
News Other notable heavyweights include Orange chief executive Sanjiv Ahuja, Nokia president Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, T-Mobile chief executive officer Rene Obermann and Peter Erskine, chairman and chief executive of O2.
[February 10, 2006, 16:30]
Apple invite sparks iPhone rumours
News The Times reported that Peter Erskine, chief executive of O2, didn't quite confirm that his company was about to start selling the iPhone. Apple has sent out invitations for a press conference on Tuesday, prompting speculation about the identity of...
[September 14, 2007, 17:13]
BT claims WAP first, argues with Orange
News The year 2000 is the year when mobile data becomes a reality," said BT Cellnet managing director Peter Erskine. A row has broken out between BT Cellnet, which claimed last week to offer the first fully operational WAP service, and Orange which...
[January 24, 2000, 8:31]
Supermarkets add WAP phones to shopping lists
News Once, Britain lagged behind the mobile phone revolution," says managing director of BT Cellnet Peter Erskine in a statement. Four of Britain's largest supermarkets have caught the WAP bug and will offer Internet-mobile phone technology to shoppers...
[May 19, 2000, 13:08]
Cellnet launches Net access on a prepay mobile phone
News Cellnet is investing £160m in the venture which Cellnet managing director Peter Erskine describes as "The turning point for mobile Internet. Internet access on a prepay mobile phone will be available starting April 3 thanks to an aggressive tactic...
[March 9, 2000, 13:12]
News Burst: Orange outpaces Cellnet
News Cellnet managing director Peter Erskine committed in March to a full commercial GPRS rollout by this summer. Orange is set to leapfrog BT Cellnet in providing its customers with high speed mobile services, according to a Forrester report published...
[March 29, 2000, 15:54]
Angry O2 workers disrupt AGM
News According to The Guardian, one employee accused the O2 board of 'prostituting' its workforce, while one shareholder of pensionable age was carried out of the meeting by security guards after mounting the podium to call for the resignation of...
[July 28, 2005, 13:15]
MmO2 revenues lift off with texting boost
News Data revenue showed continuing year-on-year growth, although the strong growth of voice revenues reduced the proportion of our total service revenue generated from mobile data in the quarter," explained Peter Erskine, chief executive of mmO2, in a...
[July 22, 2003, 15:55]
O2 halves the value of its UK 3G licence
News According to reports, mmO2 chief executive Peter Erskine blamed the 3G writedown partly on technical problems with third-generation handsets, which he said had made it harder to launch a service. The UK's mobile phone industry took another body...
[May 21, 2003, 10:35]
O2 burns bright with latest financials
News Chairman Sir David Arculus and chief executive Peter Erskine are due to join Telefonica's board. O2 has unveiled its latest set of results, in which it notched up more customers and brought in more money.
[November 15, 2005, 9:30]
O2 takes the mobile network indoors
News But O2's chief executive Peter Erskine said, "Fusion is an interesting concept, but it's small potatoes. Patchy indoor mobile coverage could be consigned to history by O2, which is evaluating two new ways of extending its mobile network.
[November 16, 2006, 11:50]
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]
O2 agrees to Telefónica takeover
News The deal was made public by O2's chief executive, Peter Erskine, on this morning's Today programme on BBC Radio 4. According to Erskine, the company has recommended that shareholders accept the all-cash offer of 200p per share, which represents a...
[October 31, 2005, 9:25]
MmO2: We've stopped the BT rot
News Peter Erskine said that mmO2's operations in countries such as Britain, Germany and Ireland were in poor shape when the firm was spun off from BT's mobile operations. Now, they're all creditable performers, but they're not yet at their peak," said...
[March 17, 2004, 12:35]
mmO2 to offer i-mode in Europe
News Peter Erskine, mmO2's CEO, said the operator had taken into account the rise in ARPU that other licensees in Europe had experienced before it decided to get into bed with DoCoMo.mmO2 has said it plans to introduce the service in the UK and Ireland...
[December 1, 2004, 13:30]
