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Lost your phone? Here's what to do!

So much of our lives our wrapped up in our mobiles that losing one can be an expensive nightmare, well beyond the cost of simply buying another phone.

Taking care to keep it on you at all times is crucial, but should the worst come to the worst, you’ll want to know what to do if it gets misplaced. Here, we run down the top tips to be aware of.

17 May O2 network issues update

On 17 May there was issue on our network in parts of East London, North London, Kent and East Sussex. Here’s what happened and what we did to fix it.

 

Royal wedding coverage: how O2 will cope with Will and Kate mania

The royal wedding is a big day for Prince William and Kate Middleton, not to mention royal-watchers and celeb-spotters, but it’ll also be a huge occasion for O2, with mobile phones firing off more texts, consuming more data and sending more picture messages than usual in the capital as huge crowds descend on the city. How will O2 cope? With a brilliant plan...

Royal Wedding Twitter list: Follow every guest!

Want the royal wedding gossip as it happens? Forget live TV coverage or tuning into the radio: you need to turn to Twitter for the inside track. Guests who’ve embraced modern technology will be tweeting their fingers to the bone on the big day, so to get your dose of frontline tittle-tattle we’ve rounded up Twitter details for everyone guaranteed a seat inside Westminster Abbey.

O2 and LTE

Right now in Slough there's a trial going on. Six mobile cell towers are serving traffic on a next generation 4G network. It's the only live trial of its kind in the UK and it's being run by O2's research and development team. What's surprising, though, is those six masts are capable of handling the same volume of traffic as O2's entire UK 3G network. Read on to find out more.

Should going online cost more in cities?

Stories in the press during the Christmas break suggest Everything Everywhere is considering charging customers more for using their phones in cities than in rural areas. What do you think?

We scooped the Network double

Gavin Sheldon, Head of Networks for O2 UK, celebrates being awarded ‘Best Network’ by the readers of both Mobile Choice and What Mobile in their respective 2010 Awards.

Our take on termination rates

O2’s Head of Regulatory Affairs, Nick Blades, discusses Ofcom’s proposals to cut mobile termination rates.

Keeping up with demand for data services

Andy Conway, Head of Radio Engineering at O2 UK, recognises how O2’s research resounds with today’s mobile data study from Cisco.

Happy first birthday, Cornerstone!

Just over 12 months ago a small team of ten met to put the wheels in motion for one of the most significant changes the telecoms industry has seen for many years.