O2 UK
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O2 Telefónica in Germany and Nokia have deployed 5G standalone (SA) core software on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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The decision to block the proposed deal in 2016 has been reinforced by EU courts.
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The UK government has appointed a physicist, engineer and champion of diversity and inclusion (D&I) as the new chief scientific adviser to the Department for Business and Trade.
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Juliana Kokott, the advocate general at the EU Court of Justice will today deliver her verdict on whether the correct decision was made to block the proposed merger of O2 and Three UK in 2016.
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Virgin Media O2 acquiring TalkTalk would be a “major statement of intent” by CEO Lutz Schuler as the company looks to take on BT, according to Kester Mann, director of consumer and connectivity at CCS Insight.
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VMO2 has revealed details of its burgeoning network of small cells across London as its UK investment strategy continues.
Forthcoming events
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Virgin Media O2 has launched hyperfast gigabit-speed broadband for small businesses, offering what it claims to be the fastest widely available business broadband in the UK.
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One year on from its merger, Virgin Media O2 has revealed its customers have smashed previous data usage records – with 39 billion gigabytes of data used across their fixed and mobile networks since June 1, 2021.
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Virgin Media O2 Business will reduce its fixed wholesale tariff rate and reduce prices across its Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) bandwidths and National Ethernet wholesale services.
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Virgin Media O2 has partnered with VMware to aid its 5G rollout across the UK and EU.
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Virgin Media O2 has confirmed it is the only major UK operator that will not introduce roaming fees in Europe.
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Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has announced it has completed the upgrade of its entire national network gigabit speeds, four years ahead of target.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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The UK’s competition authority will consider forcing Motorola to divest the obsolete Airwave emergency services network as one of the possible solutions to its inquiry.
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Virgin Media O2 has launched Volt – its first joint product since the merging of the companies earlier this year.
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The use of PUE in measuring data centre efficiency has been called into question by Cundall, the international multi-disciplinary consultancy that has delivered a portfolio of green buildings, including the Facebook Odense Data Centre.
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Telefónica has moved Mark Evans, who was CEO of its O2 UK operation, to become the group’s chief strategy and development officer.
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Orange, Telefónica and Nokia are among those who have reported their Q2 and H1 financial results in recent days.
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Five mobile network operators (MNO) have collaborated to introduce a new pan-industry labelling scheme to help consumers identify and compare sustainability across smart phones.
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Season 2, episode 17 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporter Natalie Bannerman and special guest Carl Roberts.
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has given final approval of the joint venture between Liberty Global and Telefónica to merge Virgin Media and O2.
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Telefónica's O2 has doubled down on its sustainability commitments, announcing that it is "radically overhauling" its data centres and core network sites as mobile data rates in the UK increase.
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British regulator Ofcom has confirmed the final results in its 5G spectrum auction.
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CK Hutchison’s Three UK has emerged as leader for 5G availability in the country, ahead of BT’s EE, Telefónica’s O2 and Vodafone.
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Season 2, episode 13 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporter Natalie Bannerman, and special guests Hannes Gredler and Richard Brandon from RtBrick.
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared the £31 billion proposed merger of Virgin Media and Virgin Mobile with O2.
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The chief executive and CFO who will head the 50/50 joint venture (JV) created by the merger of Virgin Media and O2, have been named.
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Fibre operators in the UK have welcomed today’s statement by the telecoms regulator, Ofcom, on its plans for the fixed wholesale market.
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The principal stage of The UK's long-awaited 5G auction has raised £1,356,400,000.
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O2 has joined a consortium pioneering the UK's first medical drone delivery network.
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Telefonica's O2 has been handed a £10.5 million fine from British regulator Ofcom after it admitted to breaching rules around customer contract terminations.
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Virna Rizzo and Jordan Le Gallo, lawyers at Cohen Amir-Aslani, a member of Globalaw, explain the impact of Brexit on the UK's Competition and Markets Authority.
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O2 has been recruited by British aerospace firm Leonardo UK to develop use cases in private 5G networks and technology for the defence and security industry.
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Telefonica UK's O2 has completed a successful Open RAN trial on its network with NEC and its partners Altiostar, GigaTera Communications and Supermicro, among others.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from across the ICT infrastructure industry.
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UK mobile operators O2, Three and Vodafone will partner to build 222 new mobile masts to boost rural coverage across country.
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Canadian-owned telecoms infrastructure company BAI Communications has hired Telefónica O2 UK’s Brendan O’Reilly to become its global CTO.
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The UK government has launched nine projects as part of a £28.3 million joint investment between government and businesses.
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UK telecoms group Daisy has demerged its cloud business into a separate company, with investment from private equity fund Inflexion.
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British regulator Ofcom has named the applicants who qualified to participate in the country's next spectrum auction.
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Telefónica’s O2 UK is the latest company to test open-source radio technology, in a trial with UK and Irish vendor Vilicom.
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O2 have unveiled its new Green Savings Calculator which could help UK businesses make millions of pounds in new savings and dramatically reduce their carbon footprint.
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is to review the proposed merger of Liberty Global and Telefonica’s mobile brands ahead of the country’s departure from the EU.
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Telecoms and healthcare were the only two sectors to have increased in value this year compared with 2019, according to a new survey.
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The EU will soon confirm if the proposed merger between O2 and Virgin will be assessed by its Competition Commissioner or Britain's Competition and Markets Authority.
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O2 has launched the first commercial laboratory for 5G and satellite communications in the UK.
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On the last day of the current reporting season, the final cohort of European telcos have released their H1 and Q2 financial results, confirming the real-world impact of Covid-19 on operations and profitability.
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Telefónica UK Limited has reported a “slight” revenue decline of 1.1.% with profitability down 1.6% for H1.
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The UK’s mobile operators have taken calmly yesterday’s announcement that it will be illegal to buy Huawei for 5G services after the end of the year.
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The US has won its battle to make the UK ban Huawei from new 5G networks, the government announced today.
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A former O2 executive has been appointed COO of independent telecoms provider Aerial Direct.
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The US is on the verge of winning its battle to persuade the UK to ban Huawei from its telecoms networks, says a former spy chief.
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Areas of Aberdeen, Brighton and Oxford have become the latest in the UK to connect to 5G, as O2 surpassed its target to switch the network on in 50 locations by summer 2020.
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CK Hutchison may have won the war, but the battle continues following yesterday’s ruling from the European Commission.