Avenir Telecom has announced it has been awarded ‘Partner of the Year’ by O2 (in the UK). O2 has named Avenir as the best UK distributor across not one but four KPIs: gross connections, secondary connections, ARPU, and customer churn. On top of this, Avenir has scooped O2’s ‘Champions League’ award – which measures sales…
O2 data outages affecting some users in UK
TUAW is reporting that iPhone users on the O2 network in the UK have been suffering with data issues in the last few days. That is rather to say that they haven’t been getting any data! Users of the iPhone will probably be familiar with a message that comes up occasionally, saying ‘could not activate…
New Year at ‘The O2’ – I SO want to be there…
‘The O2’ is a venue in the UK where O2, the well-known Mobile Operator, sponsor a huge space, that is run by leading events company AEG Live. The ‘huge space’ was previously the ‘Millenium Dome’ and whilst I could go on about the disaster that was the Government-funded project, instead I’ll say that O2 and…
O2 UK achieves 150 Mbps over LTE using Huawei equipment
Yesterday TeliaSonera turned on the world’s first commercial LTE network, and earlier this month I posted a lengthy list of operators around the world currently committed or trialing LTE equipment. Add O2 to that list, they’ve just successfully completed a test of Huawei equipment in the Slough area of the UK, where O2 headquarters are…
What are the carrier shops promoting in the run up to Xmas? (Pt. 1)
Yep, I’ve been out with my mobile device and it’s camera, and have been surveying the shops in the UK to see what they are aiming to sell us in the run up to Xmas this year. First, for part 1, are Orange and O2. What do the two (current) iPhone carriers have for us?…
Up to 19 LTE networks to go live in 2010, 36 networks to be operational in 2012; list of who and where!
The GSA (Global Suppliers Association) is reporting that over the past 8 months there has been a near 100% increase in the number of operators around the world committing to the LTE standard. There are now 51 network commitments in 24 countries, an increase of 96% over the past 8 months. Not all is rosy…
Telefonica O2 Set to Launch Palm Pre in Czech Republic ‘Sometime in 2010’
Telefonica O2 in the Czech Republic (aka T-O2) has let it be known they plan to launch the Palm Pre ‘Sometime in 2010’. Ahhh, the vagueness of it all. Awesome. Reports have it that T-O2 is currently in testing with the Pre to ensure everything works just fine and dandy on its network. Martin Zabka,…
Avenir Telecom continues ‘joined up’ streak with O2
Avenir Telecom, the UK’s leading distributor in mobile telecoms, announced record-breaking results in business landline sales. In October 2009, Avenir Telecom and its dealer base sold more fixed landlines on the O2 network than any other distributor. Earlier this year, Avenir became the first distributor to partner with O2 to launch ‘Joined Up’, an innovative…
Brief: O2UK takes contract customer bills online, drops paper
Bleeurgh. It’s not often O2 gets my back up – they are generally a pretty good and responsive network – but this time they’ve managed it. I got a rather perfunctory email from them yesterday, telling me that my bills were being moved online, because it would save them paper! Hang on a minute, woah…
O2 and HTC bring the big screen to you!
O2 has announced that the HTC HD2 will be on sale in-store (in the UK) from today. Available from free on O2 Pay Monthly, the HD2 packs in a pretty massive 4.3-inch touch screen, fast processor and camera with LED flash – all into a package just 11mm thick and weighing in at 157 grams!…