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Telefonica buys o2 for 18bn (merged)
Vashta Nerada
31-10-2005
Apologies if this has already been posted iv just seen it on skynews.
lost boy
31-10-2005
There's a report on the BBC News website about it too:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4391754.stm
onephat
31-10-2005
Its not been brought yet
deep_27
31-10-2005
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
dawson
31-10-2005
Maybe not, but but I've just offloaded my shares at 203p each
chriswilliams16
31-10-2005
looks like no free sims anyone
Carmen Queasy
31-10-2005
It's agreed to the take over!!

I hope nothing much changes - I like my 300 free texts on PAYG!
DOS
31-10-2005
Noooooooo.........the end of the free sims?
sazzy
31-10-2005
Does this mean it might actually work for once??

If so, bleeding hurry up and take it over!
ney
31-10-2005
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.

Darren
chriswilliams16
31-10-2005
i think they said they are keeping the name and brand of o2 so propley all will be the same.
Garyo2
31-10-2005
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.
ianoel230982
31-10-2005
which part of o2 do u work for Garyo2? which call centre?
Garyo2
31-10-2005
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
Everything Goes
31-10-2005
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"
wicksta
31-10-2005
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!)
wicksta
31-10-2005
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"”

I'm sure you could find a negative comment about every single mobile provider worldwide on usenet. According to a friend of mine in Madrid Telefonica is pretty good! I guess there are always happy and unhappy customers on each network though - just take a look at some of the threads in here!
Pablo Diablo
31-10-2005
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.
dawson
31-10-2005
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.
ScorpionXxX
01-11-2005
you'll be gettings spanish roaming simcard soon if the deal goes through not genie ones
Vashta Nerada
01-11-2005
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
baz016
01-11-2005
Originally Posted by robcole2004:
“Seems someone's stuck in a timewarp genie & genie simcards havnt been around for about 3 years.”

But many people still use the term 'genie' to distinguish the online o2 simcards from the offline high street ones.
Vashta Nerada
01-11-2005
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.
Garyo2
01-11-2005
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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