O2 reports third-quarter revenue of €243m

The mobile phone company 02 has reported revenue of€ 243m for the third quarter of this year.

The figure represents an increase of almost 7% on the same period last year.

O2 says it had 1.6 million customers by the end of September 2007, up 1.8% on the same period last year.

The company says it signed up more than 20,000 new customers in the third quarter alone.