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RSS O2Ofcom to shake up number-porting times
News Ofcom has published new proposals for speeding up number-porting times - the time it takes a mobile-phone user to transfer their phone number from one operator to another. Number-porting currently takes up to two days in the UK. [05 Aug 2009]
O2, NatWest cash in with prepay Visa cards
News If the credit crunch has killed the credit card O2, reckons it has the answer: the mobile operator has announced a move into financial services with the launch of two pre-payment Visa cards in partnership with NatWest. [16 Jul 2009]
O2 does free Twitter SMS alerts
News O2 customers will shortly be able to get free SMS alerts from Twitter - a year after the microblogging site pulled the plug on its free text alert service in the UK. Twitter has seen its popularity increase dramatically... [14 Jul 2009]
O2 to hook up SMEs with landline digits
News O2 is to launch a fixed-mobile convergence service for small businesses, the company has said. The service, called Fixed Number Anywhere, will give users a landline-style number that channels calls straight through to... [10 Jul 2009]
Minority Report: Can Palm Pre beat the iPhone?
Comment Palm is challenging Apple in the smartphone space, big time. Seb Janacek looks at why the impending face-off is so important. The Palm Pre - which we've just found out will be carried exclusively by O2 in the UK - is... [08 Jul 2009]
O2 snags Palm Pre exclusively in UK
News O2 will be the exclusive carrier of the Palm Pre in the UK, it announced on Tuesday. The operator already has UK exclusivity for the iPhone. It is also set to bring out an Android phone soon, in the shape of the Samsung... [07 Jul 2009]
BT kicks off London fibre pilot
News BT began a fibre broadband pilot on Monday in the north London suburb of Muswell Hill and the Cardiff suburb of Whitchurch. The pilot follows an internal Openreach trial in Ipswich of fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) technology, which... [06 Jul 2009]
Apple bonanza, crime breathalysers and broadband tax
News June was a month full of Apple-related news with the launch of the latest version of the iPhone, the iPhone 3G S, coming at the Mac maker's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). O2 wasted no time in sharing... [02 Jul 2009]
BT tops terrible customer service poll
News Telecoms companies may tell us it's good to talk but they seem to be struck dumb when it comes to communicating with their own customers, according to a new poll. In a survey asking 5,000 Brits to vote for UK businesses with the worst... [30 Jun 2009]
O2 gets into bed with BT wi-fi
News O2 has upgraded the wi-fi connection software for its mobile-broadband customers, making it possible for them to use BT's Openzone hotspots. The update to O2's Connection Manager software and the BT... [29 Jun 2009]
iPhone has no place in business say CIOs
News The Apple iPhone may have got a makeover last week but it's not enough to convince CIOs the device has a place in business. In the latest silicon.com CIO Jury, IT chiefs were asked whether they're planning to offer Apple's touchscreen... [16 Jun 2009]
'Airwave does do data - unlike what some of the media say'
Comment Airwave CEO talks to silicon.com about the future of emergency services comms, the 2012 Olympics and data question marks O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone may loom large on most people's mobile radar but for the... [11 Jun 2009]
UK mobiles getting just a quarter of pledged speed
News The average mobile-broadband download speed in the UK is 0.9Mbps, a quarter of the rate promised by most providers, according to a report published on Wednesday. The research group Epitiro monitored connections among a pool of UK... [11 Jun 2009]
O2 reveals how much a new iPhone will cost
News O2 has announced its UK pricing for the upcoming version of the iPhone, the 3G S. The iPhone 3G S will go on sale on 19 June, costing much more than the iPhone 3G did when that model was launched a year ago. [09 Jun 2009]
Phil Pavitt
CIO Profile Phil Pavitt has been appointed the next CIO of HM Revenue and Customs, one of the biggest jobs a CIO can take on in the UK, and is due to start in September. Until then he remains group CIO for Transport for London (TfL), the role he was... [03 Jun 2009]
