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O2UK and Azzurri create strategic relationship

Categories: Announcements, O2, UK News
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 2:34 PM

o2-logoO2 has announced that Azzurri Communications, a leading independent managed service provider has become a strategic partner. Azzurri will help to deliver services to customers as part of 02’s Centre of Excellence programme.

The new relationship means that Azzurri’s customers will benefit from additional resources, support and access to the latest propositions such as the iPhone, Palm Pre and Blackberry smartphones. The O2 Centre of Excellence programme is open to partners who pass qualifying criteria including customer service and proficiency in business mobile solutions.

As part of the agreement, Azzurri will manage a base of directly acquired O2 customers and Azzurri’s and O2’s corporate sales teams will become more closely aligned. Azzurri will be committing its mobile focus almost entirely to O2, relinquishing its other direct network relationships. Azzurri Communications has rapidly become the UK’s leading managed service company offering integrated voice, data, and mobile services.

What does this mean if you are a personal customer? Not a lot. However if you are a business customer, you now have two industry heavyweights, who are working closely together, hunting down those oh-so-lucrative corporate contracts – maybe you’ll be being moved over to O2 at your company sometime soon if these two have the kind of success that partnership should create!

You can find out more about O2s business offering here.

O2 has announced that Azzurri Communications, a leading independent managed service provider has become a strategic partner. Azzurri will help to deliver services to customers as part of 02’s Centre of Excellence programme.
The new relationship means that Azzurri’s customers will benefit from additional resources, support and access to the latest propositions such as the iPhone, Palm Pre and Blackberry smartphones. The O2 Centre of Excellence programme is open to partners who pass qualifying criteria including customer service and proficiency in business mobile solutions.
As part of the agreement, Azzurri will manage a base of directly acquired O2 customers and Azzurri’s and O2’s corporate sales teams will become more closely aligned. Azzurri will be committing its mobile focus almost entirely to O2, relinquishing its other direct network relationships. Azzurri Communications has rapidly become the UK’s leading managed service company offering integrated voice, data, and mobile services.
What does this mean if you are a personal customer? Not a lot. However if you are a business customer, you now have two industry heavyweights, who are working closely together, hunting down those oh-so-lucrative corporate contracts – maybe you’ll be being moved over to O2 at your company sometime soon if these two have the kind of success that partnership should create!
You can find out more about O2s business offering here.
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Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.