O2 Ireland has been sold to Three parent Hutchison Whampoa Group, in an €850m ($1.1bn) deal that will see Three surge in subscribers to around 2m active users. O2 Ireland parent Telefonica described ...

Churn is an obsession in the mobile telecoms industry. Focus is shifting away from simply winning new customers, moving instead to the retention of existing ones. This raises the question: Should the ...

MOBILE phone company O2 Ireland has increased the cost of once-off text messages but has also introduced a reduced cost service targeting people who use SMS services regularly. This new bundled text ...

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 ...

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 attracted 91,000 new subscribers in the last quarter of 2004 as the State's second-biggest mobile phone firm gained ground on its rival Vodafone. The company said yesterday it has 1.516 ...

O2 Ireland became the first mobile operator in Europe to offer Napster via phones with the launch today of Napster Mobile on 3G i-mode handsets. Tue, 12 Dec, 2006 - 10:51 O2 Ireland became the first ...

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 ...