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Telefonica buys o2 for 18bn (merged) |
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Telefonica buys o2 for 18bn
Apologies if this has already been posted iv just seen it on skynews.
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There's a report on the BBC News website about it too:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4391754.stm |
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Its not been brought yet
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O2 take over?
O2 take over to the spanish? Not that some of you will care lol! But I think its quite interesting that im going to be subscribed to a spanish firm!
http://news.money.msn.co.uk/article....e=windows-1252 |
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Maybe not, but but I've just offloaded my shares at 203p each
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looks like no free sims anyone
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It's agreed to the take over!!
I hope nothing much changes - I like my 300 free texts on PAYG! |
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Noooooooo.........the end of the free sims?
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Does this mean it might actually work for once??
If so, bleeding hurry up and take it over!
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I hope they keep the 10% back every three months and the 02 treats that started last month. Hope we will in time see more improvements to the service.
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i think they said they are keeping the name and brand of o2 so propley all will be the same.
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No decision had been made up until when i left work.
Telefonica have offered share holders £2 per share. This values o2 at £18billion. No plans to effect the running of the company in any way and will be kept as a seperate entity. Why didnt I buy my shares 3 months ago when i had the chance, dam. |
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which part of o2 do u work for Garyo2? which call centre?
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Ah because I don't know want all and sundry knowing where abouts i am, chances are its the same place as you if you live in South Yorkshire. Oh go then, its DV
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Apparently Telefonica are a really terrbile company. From a posting on Usenet uk.telecom.mobile
"Well I lived in Spain for 12 years until last year and I still work for a Spanish company. Telephonica has the most atrocious reputation in Spain. Customer Services are a joke -well not even that, it's none existent. They make BT look professional" |
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Hello from Slough.
![]() The takeover sounds a lot more promising to me than any of the other recent rumours of a takeover by Deutsche Telekom - I can't imagine how many problems they'd have with regards to competition laws, plus I wouldn't want to relocate. (I know that may be hard to believe considering it's Slough!) |
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Everything Goes
Apparently Telefonica are a really terrbile company. From a posting on Usenet uk.telecom.mobile
"Well I lived in Spain for 12 years until last year and I still work for a Spanish company. Telephonica has the most atrocious reputation in Spain. Customer Services are a joke -well not even that, it's none existent. They make BT look professional" |
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Maybe I've read this wrong but it says that they will intergrate o2 into Telefonica. Do you think that eventually o2 will be rebranded as Movistar? I'm only suggesting this because every other mobile network Telefonica have bought they have rebranded as Movistar.
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Mutter from the gutter suggests that alternative bids may now be forthcoming, hence why shares were trading today in excess of the 200p purchase price offered by Telefonica.
I think its a fair bet you can slap a SOLD sign on O2, but who to and at what price is still to be decided. |
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you'll be gettings spanish roaming simcard soon if the deal goes through not genie ones
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Originally Posted by ScorpionXxX
you'll be gettings spanish roaming simcard soon if the deal goes through not genie ones
![]() Seems someone's stuck in a timewarp genie & genie simcards havnt been around for about 3 years. Last edited by Vashta Nerada : 01-11-2005 at 08:35. |
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Quote:
Originally Posted by robcole2004
Seems someone's stuck in a timewarp genie & genie simcards havnt been around for about 3 years.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by baz016
But many people still use the term 'genie' to distinguish the online o2 simcards from the offline high street ones.
Do they? Im not sure about that maybe we should have a DS survey. |
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Technically a Genie sim card is just an o2 online sim card. However over the internet a Genie has come to mean a sim card that has the free SMS offer. A few people at o2 still use the term Genie sim and actually mean o2 online sim.
Not all Genie sims had the same offers. Over the years they were varried. |
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