BT eyes mobile firms for take over bid

The board of BT was meeting yesterday to discuss the possible acquisition of British mobile operators O2 or EE, a person familiar with the situation said.

The BT board meeting was a regularly scheduled one, said the source, who declined to be named and had not been especially convened to discuss the takeover options.

BT has been in talks with O2’s owner Telefonica and with the parent firms of Britain’s largest mobile carrier EE, France’s Orange and Germany’s Deutsche Telekom.