Mark Bridge writes:
Mobile payments. Mobile payments. Mobile payments. That's what everyone seems to be talking about. They were on the agenda last week and they're back again.
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O2 has announced the financial services companies it'll be working with when it launches a 'mobile wallet' service later this year. It first confirmed its plans in February.
The mobile wallet will be launched under the O2 Money brand and will include m-commerce, airtime top ups, contactless NFC payments and peer-to-peer money transfers.
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O2 UK is reporting problems on its network in parts of London, Kent and East Sussex. It follows the theft of equipment from one of the company's sites in East London early this morning.
Calls, text messaging and data services are all affected.
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Telefónica Europe has announced its Q1 2011 results, with customer numbers reaching 57 million and income up 6.3%.
The UK part of the business - which trades as O2 - saw an increase in customers to 22.3 million mobile users plus an additional 2.6 million using Tesco Mobile. Smartphones accounted for 82% of total sales and upgrades in Q1, bringing smartphone penetration to 33% for O2 UK.
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The official company name for O2 - Telefónica O2 UK Limited - has been changed, as have the names of the other operating businesses within Telefónica Europe.
In line with the company's global strategy of "One Team One Telefónica", the O2 part has been dropped and it'll now be Telefónica UK.
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