Avenir Telecom (a distributor in mobile telecoms in the UK), has announced some pretty sweet results regarding its customer retention efforts… In October 2009, Avenir Telecom and its dealer base reduced customer churn on O2 connections to just 8%. Avenir’s churn rate has been steadily declining each month over the past 12 months and is…
O2 to build 1500 new network sites across the UK in 2010
O2 today unveiled plans to accelerate growth of its mobile network and build extra capacity for mobile data, in a multi-year programme of investment (running to hundreds of millions of pounds). The planned investment will cover upgrade of the current radio network and also the delivery of new sites. 200 sites will be delivered in…
O2 Germany offering the Motorola Milestone for 1 EUR on a contract!
This one’s for our German Android fans. The country’s O2 subsidiary is offering the Moto Milestone aka Droid for a symbolic price of 1 EUR. Of course, your signature on a two-year contract is required, but you’ll be able to get what many people think is the best smartphone on the market for a friggin’…
O2 Litmus targets over 1 million O2 Customers
O2 Litmus (which is the mobile and web application development community from O2) is ready to spread it’s wings – and they’ve decided the best way is a targeted marketing campaign for 1 million O2 UK customers. For developers this is a bit of a boon, since there should be a steady flow of consumers…
O2 Joggler Gets Internet Radio
O2 has today announced the addition of Internet Radio to the O2 Joggler, bringing over 100 radio stations to the device for free. The service, which is delivered by PURE, has now been switched on over-the-air. O2 has also reduced the price of the O2 Joggler to £99.99. PURE, working in associated with OpenPeak (the…
Free Sky Sports for iPhone customers on O2
Yep, O2 are pulling out all the stops, on the day that Orange launches the iPhone. First of all we had the new internet tethering offer, then we had the offer to unlock the iPhone for free, and now…. we have free Sky Sports for iPhone customers! O2 has announced today that the new Sky…
O2 will now let you unlock your iPhone (but there are conditions)
So again, on the same day that Orange goes live with the iPhone, O2 suddenly (in my eyes anyway) has decided that you can now unlock your iPhone. However, there are some conditions: Unlocking your iPhone From 10 November, the iPhone can be unlocked for O2 customers in the UK. Pay Monthly customers Your iPhone…
O2 launches Total Connectivity for iPhone customers
O2 UK has announced the iPhone Total Connectivity Bolt On, which allows new and existing iPhone customers to purchase the iPhone Internet Tethering bolt-on and receive the standard O2 Home Broadband package completely free. In case you are wondering what the big deal is, there’s two things here: 1) you can get home broadband (standard)…
HSPA+ lives on O2 Germany in Munich
Telefónica O2 Germany has turned on the switch to its HSPA+ network in Munich. Actually, not whole city is covered at the moment, but we assume that will happen in no time (and the same will also happen to other German cities, as well). At the moment, it’s the city center and western part of…
Nokia, plus almost every major international operator, agree on a standard for voice + SMS over LTE
LTE, Long Term Evolution, 4G, whatever you want to call it, was designed to be a complete IP based system. Many of you may be surprised to hear this, but when LTE became a standard, it only supported data. That’s right, 4th generation networks didn’t have an interoperable standard for voice and SMS. Several solutions…