o2 UK has 10 million Pay As You Go customers. In November last year, the company introduced a ‘Top Up Surprises’ campaign for customers. It works really nicely: Every time you top-up your account, you get a text back from o2 with a ‘surprise’. Surprises range from extra texts, picture messages and minutes through to [...]
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First impressions of the UK Palm Pre: We like it!
Yesterday was the day of the pickup. I’d been instructed to meet a PR called Greg at a secret location in London’s Soho. Once there I’d receive a short briefing and handover of Palm’s much anticipated smartphone, the Palm Pre. The device goes on sale in the UK today exclusive to O2 and priced to [...]
T-Mobile and Orange to announce merger tomorrow?
Just in: Reuters is reporting T-Mobile UK and Orange are set to announce they are in exclusive talks to form a joint venture. Whilst neither party will comment on the report, sources close to both companies said an official announcement could happen as early as tomorrow (Tuesday). Reports over the weekend in the UK Sunday [...]
o2 mobile data gerbils and hamsters in wildcat strike
The little gerbils — and the odd hamster — that, together with a bunch of string, keep the mighty o2 UK data network running, are on strike this morning. They’ve had enough. The result is that the o2 data network is, obviously, screwed. What the hell is wrong with o2? It’s supposed to be carrier-grade. [...]
o2′s Apple iPhone exclusivity terminates on October 9th
Well then. No wonder they needed the Palm Pre, eh? Have a read of this story: Although there has been plentiful speculation about O2 losing its iPhone exclusivity over the last few weeks, sister site Mobile Entertainment has seen documentation that states it will end officially on October 9th. O2 signed its original deal with [...]
Andrew Scott on The Curious Case of Johan Nordstrom
In 1901 a Swedish immigrant to America called Johan Nordstrom, founded the Nordstrom department store. In 1975, by now a national chain, a Nordstrom customer walked into one of their stores to return a set of tyres he’d bought. The salesperson gladly took back the set of car tyres and gave the customer a refund. [...]
O2: Fail, fail and fail again
It’s been a bit of a bad week for O2 and their UK network. On Monday a fire at an unnamed substation took out a whole load of cell sites across London. On Tuesday it managed to break the whole data network for the majority of customers. Not just 3G but GPRS too. In fact [...]
O2 launch landline numbers for mobile service
Here’s a curious one. O2 have just announced the launch of something called ‘Fixed Number Anywhere’ – a service which gives O2 business customers a regular UK geographic (i.e. 01xxx 02xxx) or freephone (0808) number attached to their mobile. The caller dials the number, it rings your mobile, and voila. But hang on a second, [...]
James Parton of o2 Litmus responds to App Showdown developer concerns
This morning I published a note from mobile developer, Simon Maddox. Simon was concerned about certain terms of the o2 Litmus App Showdown. Proving that o2 Litmus is a very responsive organisation, their top chap, James Parton, sent this answer to publish. Over to James: – – – – – This week, we launched the [...]
iPhone Developers: £10k prize from o2 Litmus
o2 Litmus, the application developer community for Telefonica’s o2, is running an iPhone Developer competition. Called The App Showdown, the competition offers a £10,000 prize to the winning application developer. The judges, well… they’re not an esteemed panel of mobile gods or mobile executives. Instead — and interestingly — the judging panel is going to [...]
Is Tesco Mobile Ireland in trouble?
Tesco Mobile Ireland – which like its UK sister operation is a joint venture between Tesco and O2, managed to rack up a deficit of €7.3m by the end of last year, according to the Irish Times. The paper reports that the operation, launched in mid-2007, has just filed accounts at the Companies’ Registration Office [...]
It’s official: O2 get the Palm Pre
Whilst it pretty much confirmed what we already knew, O2 have today announced they’ve got exclusivity on the Palm Pre in Europe. At least that’s what the headline says. But dig a little deeper, and you’ll find the beginnings of a two-track rollout. The Telefonica O2 group operates mobile networks in the UK, Spain, Germany, [...]
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