Business Mobiles O2

O2, the popular mobile phone provider, will soon be making a few changes that a lot of telecoms companies will be making in the not-to-distant future. O2 has announced that it will be getting rid of its ‘unlimited’ data plans and instead charge customers if they go over their data allowance.

Since the smartphone mobile exploded onto the telecoms scene, there has been a huge surge in data usage and networks just can’t cope. So rather than having data hogs causing internet speed problems for the majority, O2 has decided to cap data usage altogether.

Once the mobile provider starts selling the iPhone 4 on 24^th June, the data will be capped at 500MB for £35 if you’re on a two year contract.

Just before 8pm last night (11/05/10), mobile phone network O2 suffered a voice and data network outage which left many customers annoyed. Many contract business mobile customers had no voice or data network whilst pay-as-you-go customers didn’t seem to suffer.

An internet update on Twitter by O2 said this, “There's an issue affecting our service in some of the UK. Sorry - our engineers are investigating and we'll update you when we can.” What services and what areas of the UK were not expounded upon and customers were annoyed that the O2 site was not too helpful. Luckily for business mobile customers, the O2 network seems to be back to normal this morning.

O2, the mobile phone and mobile broadband provider, is once again expanding its market by providing a fixed phone line service for users at home.

Although the service has not yet been launched, it has been estimated that O2 will start offering its home phone line service around May or June as the mobile provider has already started taking down names for the service.

O2 will be launching the fixed line service mainly as part of a bundled offer for existing O2 customers.

O2, mobile phone and broadband provider, has upped its game once again with a new set of price lists and tariffs that capitalise on the mobile broadband boom. Take for instance the Light Mobile Broadband package which would be ideal for workers who spend little time out of the office. The 18 month contract comes complete with 90 days of free mobile broadband and subsidised home broadband. Or there is the cheaper 3GB broadband package. Coincidentally, these new price plans come just in time for the Orange and T-Mobile merger.

BT has won a contract worth millions to consolidate O2's networks (fixed and mobile) into a single network. The contract is a five year deal that will see O2 use BT’s 21^st Century Network platform. O2 is currently trying to reduce its overall spend as well as handle the boom in data usage on its network. Many mobile phone providers are experiencing trouble with their networks at the minute as data-hungry smartphones become more and more popular.

Telefónica the parent company of O2 announced that they were to begin 4G LTE (4^th Generation Long Term Evolution) trials to see how the emerging technology would work. Well, Huawei, one of Telefónica’s LTE vendors, has successfully completed an LTE trial in the hometown of O2, Slough.

Huawei reached a crest of 150Mbps for downlink rates. O2 and Huawei were extremely pleased with the results of the trial and see a bright future for LTE technologies!

O2 are to increase the capacity of their network in a multi-million pound drive to prepare for the steadily growing surge in mobile data usage. In a scheme that will take years to complete, O2 will begin in London, adding an extra 40 mobile data hotspots by the end of the year. O2 are aiming for around 1,500 new locations for their data hotspots.

With the growing popularity of smartphones and data applications O2, as well as other mobile providers, are finding a lot of strain is being put on their data networks. By beginning work now on increasing data networks, O2 hope to be able to cope with the increase in data use.

The German O2 branch has upped its game by gaining an extra 500,000 customers in one of the largest economies in Europe. As of the end of September, O2 in Germany had around 15.4 million subscribers which shows a yearly increase of around 10.2%. Although O2 are the smallest mobile provider in Germany, this year has seen them hold their own!