Virgin Media O2 supports the merger of Vodafone and Three and said it  would be “a positive step for investment in the UK’s digital infrastructure.” The affiirmatiom was made by Lutz Schüler,CEO of Virgin Media O2 announcing the networks Q2 financial performance.  Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone UK have a new, long-term mobile network sharing

Vodafone and Virgin Media O2 have agreed to extend their network sharing agreement that has been operating for more than a decade. The agreement is subject to the approval of the merger between Vodafone and Three by the Competition and Markets Authority. The agreement will be an irresistible carrot for the Competition and Markets Authority

Virgin Media O2 now has 24 million mobile subscribers on both contract and pre-paid deals. The mobile base last year increased by 46,600 contract customers and 211,200 IoT and wholesale connections. The converged fixed-mobile Volt bundles also saw growth, with 1.9 million customers opting for these services. The company invested over £2 billion in 2023

Virgin Media O2 and Tesco Plc have renewed their Tesco Mobile joint venture for another 10 years to continue the partnership which has been in place for 20 years. Tesco Mobile now has a customer base of over 5.5 million users. Lutz Schüler, CEO of Virgin Media O2, commented “ “We have enjoyed great success

Virgin Media O2’s mobile contract base put on 50,000 new users in the third quarter of the year to a total of 16.1 million with monthly consumer contract churn remaining low at one per cent. 

Virgin Media O2 is selling a 16.7 per cent stake in mobile tower joint venture Cornerstone to infrastructure fund GLIL Infrastructure for about £360 million.

Virgin Mobile’s planned job cuts of 2,000 people by the end of the year is just the start of  further cost cutting measures across the industry.according to top telco analyst Paolo Pescatore.  Some people have already left the business. The number of redundancies includes some changes already announced internally. Some jobs are in consultation and

Virgin Media O2 added 297,000 mobile connections during the first three months of the year. This includes connections from wholesale customers such as Sky Mobile.

The new fibre venture and Virgin Media O2’s existing network will offer more wholesale choice to other UK operators

The National Databank was founded by Virgin Media O2 and Good Things Foundation and provides free mobile data, texts and calls for those eligible to receive

£2bn investment in infrastructure and customer service

This completed rollout delivers a huge boost to the government’s 2025 broadband target.

The recently merged company launched its Volt product last month 

The latest areas to receive the gigabit boost include Brighton, Derby and Sheffield

The line-up has been unveiled as the CMA conducts its regulatory review ahead of expected merger

Liberty Global CEO says the merger will create a “fixed mobile champion”

The broadband provider is targeting 15 million gigabit-premises by the end of 2021