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O2 is Mercedes Benz & Three is a Hyundai says O2 CEO
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O2 CEO Ronan Dunne doesn't think much of Three in an interview with Mobile Today.
O2 is hardly a reliable network, plus they failed to invest in 3G so I fail to see the comparison with a Mercedes. Perhaps Delboy's Reliant Regal van is a better comparison to O2
More funny quotes from Ronan Dunne here:
http://www.mobiletoday.co.uk/Feature/24543/Finally__4G_is_go.aspx
For those members who have never seen Only Fools and Horses:
http://www.daniellatto.co.uk/user/news/del-boys-van.jpg
A thread that my be of interest:
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1805822&page=2
While the auction outcome means O2 is only three percentage points ahead of Three in its total spectrum holding, despite having nearly three times as many customers, Dunne said ‘that’s like comparing a Mercedes Benz with a Hyundai’.
O2 is hardly a reliable network, plus they failed to invest in 3G so I fail to see the comparison with a Mercedes. Perhaps Delboy's Reliant Regal van is a better comparison to O2
More funny quotes from Ronan Dunne here:
http://www.mobiletoday.co.uk/Feature/24543/Finally__4G_is_go.aspx
For those members who have never seen Only Fools and Horses:
http://www.daniellatto.co.uk/user/news/del-boys-van.jpg
A thread that my be of interest:
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1805822&page=2
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That is a thread about O2's 4G roll out. But this is quite a funny quote from a much larger article. It demonstrates how out of touch O2's CEO is.
Well why did you bother to read the thread and post on it if its boring
Expensive (for what you get), a small package with limited coverage and slow speeds.
I just wish O2 would invest in their network and make it's deployment of current technologies as good as the legacy 2G network they have.
What car do you think O2 is? expensive to run, breaks down once every 6 months, dated technology and not very impressive speeds.
If only, eh?
That told him.
There is no denying that O2 is a premium mobile brand as is Vodafone and EE are trying hard to develop their brand into something similar.
Three have to sell on price as they still need to acquire customers to make their network viable in terms of cost per user. That is how Hyundai built their business but I'm not sure one could say that now as their cars are priced similarly to all mainstream brands. They do however offer enhanced warranties which probably equates to the 3 offer of 'all you can eat' data.
A kind of silly comparison as although both O2 and 3 sell the same basic communications services they both have very different marketing strategies. 3 is a value for money proposition where O2 is about 'added value' with lots of customer benefits on top of the basic communications offering (like priority moments etc).
Each to their own. It's good to have some variety and choice in the market as one size does not suit all and as the competition hot's up the CEOs will no doubt make many more bitching statements!
For the CEO to even make this kind of statement it shows they are seeing a real challenge from Three as they grew again by over 1 million customers, all 3G smartphone customers (which account for only 50% of O2 customers), and they grew by more than O2. The fact that the CEO is even commenting speaks volumes.
This was after I discovered my 'unlimited' data allowance with Tesco was 500MB.
Ronan must be drinking the silly juice!
I agree and its weird how O2 is the only Mobile brand with a HATE BRIGADE. I guess customers are not stupid and they know what they are talking about.
Everyone now knows how O2 were incapable of rolling out 3G and tried delay tactics for the sale of 4G licences. It is now common knowledge O2 is the worst UK network and is selling assets where ever it can to survive.
Good bye O2, your 2013 results will be the worst of all mobile networks. The fact the O2 CEO specifically mentions Three UK is a vote of confidence in the Three network lol. He must be so desperate.
I can't remember a Mercedes advert saying ...............
MERCEDES...We're better than Hyundai :D:D This smacks of desperation and from what I've seen Three are quite happy about it
That'd explain why O2 is just as bad, I don't think they were this bad in the Cellnet/BT Cellnet era. O2 does charge the earth for a unreliable, shoddy network, so the similarities are not too far apart.
O2 are not so good, so they did nothing but try to attack a superior network............big mistake O2.
It was said before and I say it again, STOP MOANING O2 AND START INVESTING/COMPETING
It is also worth noting Three is getting a large portion of its new customers from O2,
Ronan Dunne didn't do himself any favours in the interview.
"The very fact that the auction took place in 2013 was because the people who didn’t have low frequency spectrum were agitating for it.’
Yes O2 delayed the 4G auction with threats of legal action against Ofcom (which had been going on for years). Then turn around and say it was delayed until 2013 because people were agitating for low frequency (800MHz) make him look like an utter idiot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/aug/29/mobile-internet-4g-o2-delay?cat=technology&type=article
http://www.mobiletoday.co.uk/Feature/24543/Finally__4G_is_go.aspx