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O2 (typeset as O 2) is a global brand name owned by the Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica. The company uses the O2 brand for its subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and Germany. Since 2018, it is also used as an online-only flanker brand in Spain. [1]
Its second-largest acquisition is the purchase of MapQuest, a web mapping company. From 1999 to 2009, MapQuest had the greatest market share among mapping websites; it has since dropped to second place, behind Google Maps. [3] [4] The majority of the companies acquired by AOL are based in the United States. As of April 2008, AOL has acquired 41 ...
O2 purchased Be Un Limited, an internet service provider in the UK, for £50 million in June 2006. [49] O2 retained the Be brand, and launched a separate O2-branded broadband service on 15 October 2007, using the Be network. O2 announced in June 2011 a fibre optic broadband service designed to compete with the BT Infinity product, using FTTC ...
VMED O2 UK Limited, [1] trading as Virgin Media O2, is a British mass media and telecommunications company based in London, England. The company was formed in June 2021 as a 50:50 joint venture between Liberty Global and Telefónica through the merger of their respective Virgin Media and O2 UK businesses.
The brand was previously used for a chain of mobile phone retail stores, which (from 1997) were 60% owned by DSGi, and 40% owned by O2, the telecommunications company. At the time of The Link's retail store operation, O2 was a subsidiary of BT Group , but the network is now owned by Telefónica of Spain .
In July 2004 the company admitted overcharging 71,000 customers following a review of its systems. The disclosure meant that 136,535 O2 subscribers - more than 10 per cent of its customer base - were overcharged. [16]
The Link, a mobile phone retailer based in the United Kingdom, sold to O2 in June 2006. [38] Freetalk, a VoIP business, whose customers were transferred to Vonage, a VoIP company based in the United States, in August 2006. [39] Pixmania, a French-based online retailer, which was acquired by Dixons Retail in April 2006, and sold in September ...
The company was formed in 2012 as a joint venture between the mobile phone operators Telefónica (trading as O2 in Britain) and Vodafone. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2019 it was reported that CTIL's owners were considering a "partial monetization" of CTIL's assets to finance their 5G network rollout.