BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$11.6B
- Public
- UK
Dow Jones Description
Talking is breathing to them! mm02 plc is the wireless unit of British Telecom. It owns mobile phone operators and serves about 24 million customers in UK, Ireland and Germany. O2 also owns O2 Airwave, which supplies secure digital communications to the emergency services and other public safety organizations. Founded in 1998, this $12.5 billion company is based in Slough, UK and employs about 14,000 people and has more than 35 million customers across Europe. In September 2005 the company was selected as a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes World and Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes Stoxx. It was given a first placing in the wireless communications sector and a second placing in the telecommunications sector.
Chairman & CEO
Peter ErskineNumber of Employees 15,000
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Cellular and Other Wireless Telecommunications: 517212
News & Analysis
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O2, Nortel Demo Emerging Broadband Wireless Technology
Wireless News 12-17-2004 O2, Nortel Demo Emerging Broadband Wireless Technology WIRELESS NEWS-17 December 2004-O2, Nortel Demo Emerging Broadband Wireless Technology C2004 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com Nortel and mmO2 have completed a series of live wireless calls using...
KPN HOVERS OVER MMO2.(planning mergers)
Speculation over the future of mobile operator mmO2 was rampant on February 23 after Dutch telecoms company KPN made an offer for the firm. KPN and mmO2, the former wireless arm of British Telecom, if combined would create a company with some 35 million subscribers in Europe,...
O2 Selects MPEG-4 aacPlus from Coding Technologies for New ``O2 Music'' Mobile Service; Open-Standard Codec Reduces Download Times by One Half
Business & Entertainment Editors/High-Tech Writers STOCKHOLM, Sweden & NUREMBERG, Germany--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 18, 2003 Coding Technologies, the leading provider of audio compression technologies for mobile, digital broadcasting, and the Internet, announced that the U.K.-based mobile phone carrier mmO2 has selected MPEG-4 aacPlus as the audio compression standard for the...
Ericsson and mmO2 sign Europe-wide agreement for microwave system MINI-LINK. (Across Europe).(Brief Article)
Ericsson and mmO2 have signed a pan-European frame agreement for the supply of the microwave solution MINI-LINK. The agreement covers all subsidiaries within the mmO2 group. This agreement .is a pan-European pricing framework and is the common base for all subsidiaries within the mmO2...
Ericsson and mmO2 sign Europe-wide frame agreement for microwave system MINI-LINK.
M2 PRESSWIRE-15 May 2003-ERICSSON: Ericsson and mmO2 sign Europe-wide frame agreement for microwave system MINI-LINKC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05152003 Ericsson and mmO2 have signed a pan-European frame agreement for the supply of the microwave solution MINI-LINK. The agreement covers all ...
Aspiro to supply 41 mobile applications to mmO2.(Brief Article)
EUROPEMEDIA-C2002 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - http://www.vandusseldorp.com/ Aspiro, a Swedish supplier of mobile services to operators, has signed an agreement with the British based mobile operator mmO2 to supply 41 mobile applications to all markets served by O2, including more than 18m subscribers....
TelecomsMediaTechnology: `3G mobiles will be like colour TV versus
Fumbling in the top pocket of his jacket, Peter Erskine pulls out a sleek, silver electronic gadget. The chief executive of mobile operator mmO2 slides open the cover and the device emits a strange set of sounds; not the usual electro bleep- bleep, more like chords played...
MMO2 sells Dutch subsidiary - Brief Article
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-14 April 2003-MMO2 sells Dutch subsidiaryC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Mobile operator MMO2 has announced the sale of its Dutch mobile phone subsidiary to Greenfield Capital Partners, a Dutch investment group. Greenfield Capital Partners will be paying GBP17m in cash for O2 Netherlands which MMO2 claims that it...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| David Finch | CFO |
| Andrew Harley | Group Director, HR |
| David Nicholas | Director, Communications |
| Richard Poston | Director, Corp Affairs |
| Sohail Qadri | Group Director, Strategy & Performance Management |
| Philip Bramwell | General Counsel & Secretary |
| Simon Gordon | Head, Media Relations |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Peter Erskine | Chairman & CEO |
| Andrew Sukawaty | Board of Directors |
| Antonio Viana-Baptista | Board of Directors |
| Cesar Alierta | Board of Directors |
| Danuta Gray | Board of Directors |
| David Arculus | Board of Directors |
| Jaime Smith | Board of Directors |
| Julio Linares | Board of Directors |
| Matthew Key | Board of Directors |
| Rudolf Groger | Board of Directors |
Peter Erskine was appointed to the Board in 2001 as Chief Executive Officer. He joined the Company from BT where, since March 1993, he held a number of senior positions including Director of BT Mobile, President and Chief Executive of Concert, and, from 1998, Managing Director of BT Cellnet. Prior to joining BT he was European Vice President of Sales and Customer Service for Mars and Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing for UNITEL. Mr Erskine is also a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Reading Business School. Following Telefonica's acquisition of O2, Mr. Erskine became Chairman and Chief Executive of O2 and also joined the Board of Telefonica, S.A. as an Executive Director. Mr. Erskine is also Chairman of the supervisory board of Telefonica O2 Czech Republic a.s.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O2 plc | Chairman & CEO | Current |
| O2 plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Telefonica, S.A. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Telefonica, S.A. | Executive Director | Former |
| Telefonica, S.A. | Chairman of Board | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O2 plc | Director, Communications | Current |
| O2 plc | Director, Communications | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O2 plc | Director, Corp Affairs | Current |
| O2 plc | Director, Corp Affairs | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O2 plc | Group Director, Strategy & Performance Management | Current |
| O2 plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| O2 plc | Group Director, Strategy & Performance Management | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O2 plc | General Counsel & Secretary | Current |
| O2 plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O2 plc | Head, Media Relations | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O2 plc | Board of Directors | Current |
Antonio Viana-Baptista serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since August 2002. He is an economist who graduated from the Catholic University of Lisbon in 1980. He has a post graduate in European Economy (1981), and an MBA, obtained with a distinction mention, from INSEAD (Fontainebleu). He is member of the board of directors, the Delegate Committee and the Executive Committee of Telefonica S.A. He is also Chairman of Telefonica Moviles Espana, S. A. and member of the board of directors of Telefonica Internacional, S.A., Portugal Telecom SGPS, Brasilcel N. V. , CTC Chile, Telefonica de Argentina, S. A. and Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo S. A. Until July 2002, he served as President of Telefonica Internacional and Executive President of Telefonica Latinoamerica. Before that he also served from 1991 until 1996, as Executive Director of BPI (Banco Portugues de Investimento). From 1985 until 1991 Mr. Viana-Baptista was Principal Partner of McKinsey & Co. in Madrid and Lisbon. He was appointed to the O2 Board on 23 January 2006 after the Telefonica offer for O2 went unconditional.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Telefonica de Argentina S.A. | Member | Current |
| O2 plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Telefonica de Argentina S.A. | Vice Chairman | Current |
| Telefonica, S.A. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Telefonica Moviles, S.A. | Chairman & CEO | Former |
| Bpi, Inc. | Executive Director | Former |
| INSEAD | Mba | Former |
| The Catholic University of America | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O2 plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O2 Communications (Ireland) Limited | CEO | Current |
| O2 plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O2 plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O2 plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Telefonica O2 Czech Republic, A.S. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Telefonica O2 Czech Republic, A.S. | Chairman, President & CEO | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O2 plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Telefonica, S.A. | General Manager, Coordination, Business Development & Synergies | Former |
| Telefonica, S.A. | General Manager, Coordination, Business Development & Synergies | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O2 plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O2 (Germany) GmbH & Co. OHG | CEO | Current |
| O2 plc | Board of Directors | Current |
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