Virgin Mobile customers to be moved over to O2 this year
VMO2 is rearranging itself into neater mobile and broadband units a year and a half after the merger of Virgin Media and O2.
VMO2 is rearranging itself into neater mobile and broadband units a year and a half after the merger of Virgin Media and O2.
Nokia and O2 Telefónica Germany say they have aggregated sub-6 GHz spectrum frequencies in an ‘industry first’ two-component carrier uplink Carrier Aggregation (CA) trial on 5G standalone.
UK operator O2 has published the data it captured from its customers over the summer to paint a picture of where, if anywhere, they went on their holidays.
Data from O2’s network seems to suggest commuter numbers in London have roughly doubled in July compared to a year ago when lockdown lifted in England.
UK operator O2 is offering new and existing customers the option to switch their phone for a new one whenever they like in a new scheme called O2 Switch Up.
Telefonica has spent a few euros on the development of portable 5G base stations in Germany, with events like Munich’s Oktoberfest in mind.
UK telco watchdog Ofcom wants to alter some of O2’s and Vodafone’s spectrum licences so they can reuse frequencies they already have for 5G.
Virtual operators like Smarty, Giffgaff, Tesco Mobile and Sky Mobile performed better than the big four operators on customer service and value for money in a Which? survey.
KPN has secured a €1 billion credit facility that is linked to its own sustainability goals, a further sign that telcos are taking this stuff seriously.
Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: UK government updates on Project Gigabit; Telecom Italia makes quantum leap; O2 turns on 5G street light in Frankfurt.
UK mobile operator EE has announced it will start charging £2 per day for new and upgrading customers to use their data in Europe.
Having cleared all its regulatory hurdles, the UK’s new converged telco is full of ambition, but going toe-to-toe with BT will be very expensive.
With the spring bank holiday weekend looming in the UK many will be hitting the road for a quick getaway, and O2 is using this to its advantage, trumpeting the strength of its 4G network coverage along the country’s major arteries.
The merger of UK mobile operator O2 with cableco Virgin Media is set to close in a matter of days, having cleared its final regulatory hurdle: the approval of the competition watchdog.
The world’s second largest public cloud provider has shown it doesn’t think ‘private’ is a dirty word in its MEC collaboration with O2 UK.
Telefónica’s German operation has taken its first steps in carrier aggregation for 5G and expects hat to lead to the launch of standalone 5G this summer.
O2 and Vodafone have entered into a UK agreement to trade spectrum holdings in the 3.4 GHz-3.8 GHz band to create more efficient frequency blocks for 5G rollout.
Two reports analysing operators’ 5G performances in the US and the UK have put EE and AT&T slightly ahead of their peers respectively, but there are no sweeping winners.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally cleared the proposed merger of Virgin Media and O2 UK.
The Japanese telecoms vendor NEC has brought its partnership with IBM-owned open source software solutions provider Red Hat up to date to deliver multicloud capable 5G solutions.
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