UK comms regulator Ofcom has announced the outcome of the Principal stage of its auction to release more airwaves to improve 5G in the busiest places. A total of 5.4 GHz of spectrum was up for grabs – the most ever to be made available in an Ofcom auction. This spectrum, known as ‘mmWave’ because […]
o2 Telefónica in Germany has announced a new working relationship with Crunchyroll. The collaboration will see Crunchyroll fully integrated into the customer ecosystem of o2 Telefónica, offering access to a dedicated anime library for all o2 mobile and broadband customers. Under the agreement, o2 customers can add a Crunchyroll subscription directly to their o2 account, […]
Virgin Media O2 has announced the successful switch-on of its Giga Site in Paddington, London, utilising newly acquired spectrum and marking a step forward in delivering more reliable mobile connectivity across the UK. The new Giga Site combines low, mid and high-band spectrum with Nokia’s new dual-band massive MIMO technology, which uses a large number […]
Residents, businesses, and visitors to Perth city centre in Scotland will benefit from enhanced mobile coverage from O2 with the deployment of six new 4G outdoor small cells. Small cells are technology about the size of a shoe box and used to enhance mobile phone signal in busy areas. Because of their size, they can […]
Total Kombat 2 will stream live from London’s The Indigo at The O2 on ITVX on September 13th. A full replay will be available on demand. Created with veteran television producers and world champion martial artists – including British UFC standout Michael ‘Venom’ Page – Total Kombat is a combat sports promotion shaped by the […]
O2 is upgrading its mobile network at 22 Haven holiday sites around the UK this summer. The upgrades, delivered in collaboration with connectivity infrastructure-as-a-service provider Freshwave, are part of O2’s Mobile Transformation Plan, which aims to future proof its mobile network and improve connectivity in high-demand areas across the UK. The first four upgraded sites, including Thornwick […]
Virgin Media O2 is creating a new £1 million talent fund to help charities, local authorities, small businesses and social enterprises train apprentices — removing financial and structural barriers that have long held smaller organisations back from investing in early careers talent. This initiative will allow organisations to access Virgin Media O2’s apprenticeship levy fund, […]
Residents, businesses, and visitors in two of Cornwall’s most popular towns are set to benefit from an improved mobile experience and faster speeds after the first O2 small cells have gone live in St Ives and Newquay. O2 has partnered with connectivity infrastructure-as-a-service provider Freshwave to deliver five small cells in St Ives and three […]
A previous plan to spin off joint venture Virgin Media O2’s fixed network in Britain has been scrapped, Telefonica’s Chief Executive Marc Murtra has confirmed speaking to Reuters. “The project is stopped,” Murtra said, clarifying that the “plan is not on pause”. Virgin Media O2, which is jointly owned by Liberty Global and Telefónica, had […]
Ofcom’s Mobile Matters research report puts people’s experiences of using mobile networks across the UK under the microscope, based on crowdsourced data collected between October 2024 and March 2025 by Opensignal. The analysis showed that 71 per cent (a year-on-year decrease of 7 percentage points) of cellular network connections were on 4G, 28 per cent on […]