Hutchison Whampoa, owner of Three U.K., has today acquired O2 Ireland in a deal worth €850 million ($1.1 billion). Telefonica, O2’s parent company, believes the move will “create a new competitive ...

O2 Ireland added 17,000 new subscribers in the three months to the end of March but saw its profit margins fall slightly as competition intensified in the market. The second-biggest Irish mobile phone ...

O2 Ireland, the country's second mobile phone company, has admitted to overcharging an additional 71,535 of its customers for a range of services. The figure emerged through a report from O2 Ireland ...

O2 IRELAND continues to gain pace on rivals Vodafone and increased its customer base to more than 1.6 million and revenue by 4.5% to €237m in the three months to the end of June, compared to the same ...

Mobile phone network Three is set to acquire O2's business in Ireland in a €780m (£622.4m) deal which will give it a 37.5 per cent market share. Three has entered into an agreement with Telefonica to ...

TELECOMS regulator ComReg has given O2 Ireland until June 25 to complete an investigation into how it overcharged 70,000 of its roaming customers. According to the body, O2 Ireland has been asked for ...

Telefónica O2 Ireland added 5,400 new customers during the third quarter, according to its latest set of key performance indicators, which point to mobile broadband and smartphone devices as main ...

IBM has emerged as the winning bidder for the outsourcing of mobile operator O2 Ireland’s IT division, a move that may see 230 IT workers move from O2 to IBM. In May it emerged that O2 had decided to ...

Consumers faced mobile phone charge increases of up to 20% as a direct result of the acquisition of O2 Ireland by Three four years ago, a report by the representative body of EU telecom regulators has ...

O2 Ireland has scrapped roaming charges between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland for all of its 1.6 million customers. O2 has also abolished roaming charges across Great Britain and ...

O2 Ireland has announced a 13% rise in service revenues for the year ending March 31, 2005. Service revenues grew from €816m from €720m the same time last year. Turnover for the full year amounted to ...