Virgin Media and O2 will merge to create a new £31billion media and telecoms giant, their parent firms announce Deal is to put together a mobile business in 02 with Virgin’s broadband service Bosses behind the merger say it will speed-up the rollout of 5G networks in UK The merger is subject to the approval … Read more
Vodafone could gatecrash O2-Virgin Media merger or face being left without a foothold in UK broadband By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:54 BST, 5 May 2020 | Updated: 23:41 BST, 5 May 2020 Vodafone will be the biggest loser from the planned O2-Virgin Media merger and could seek to ‘gatecrash’ the deal, … Read more
O2 in talks with rival Virgin Media about potential £24bn mega-merger By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:10 BST, 4 May 2020 | Updated: 22:10 BST, 4 May 2020 O2 is in talks with rival Virgin Media about a potential £24 billion mega-merger, it was confirmed yesterday. The tie-up would transform the telecoms … Read more
Mobile operator O2 is in talks to merge with Virgin Media in a move that would pose a serious threat to rival telcos including BT and Sky. Telefonica, O2’s Spanish owner, confirmed it is in discussions with Virgin-owner Liberty Global over a deal between the two network operators. Liberty Global, which is owned by American … Read more
Furious Virgin Media customers face problems with their internet AGAIN amid complaints the service has been ‘almost useless for two months’ Customers experienced nearly 100 per cent more internet issues than last week Downdetector tracked 13 Virgin Media problems or outages over the past week 357 customers lodged problem reports on Saturday night around 8.20pm … Read more
China’s censors deleted critical coronavirus articles and social media posts even if they had been written in Morse code or KLINGON to avoid detection Chinese re-created deleted articles in Morse code to test censorship levels Even those typed out in Klingon from Star Trek films were eventually deleted China faces widespread criticism for supressing how … Read more
Breaking: Hundreds of furious customers slam Virgin Media and Sky as broadband goes down across the country Around 700 customers of Sky and Virgin Media faced issues around 11.20am Down Detector says hundreds of customers are still facing issues this afternoon It comes after Virgin Media customers faced 18 hours of disruption this week By James … Read more
David Beckham returned to social media on Wednesday after a week-long absence from the platform as he gave his widely-followed Instagram account over to Age UK. The former footballer, 44, took to his platform to support the charity’s work for the elderly during the coronavirus lockdown, and revealed he and his wife Victoria, 46, have been … Read more
Pictured: Hu Xijin, the editor of the state-run Global Times The editor of a Chinese state media publication has described Australia as ‘gum stuck to the bottom of our shoe’ as the relationship between the once-friendly nations wanes during the coronavirus crisis. Australia is standing firm in its calls for an independent probe into the origins … Read more
President Trump spends around two hours attacking the media and Democrats during the coronavirus briefings, according to analysis in two reports. According to studies of the press conferences, Trump devotes 45 minutes on average to praising his own response to the crisis, while designating just four-and-a-half minutes to the victims of the pandemic. Both the … Read more