Mobile media network 3 has today announced the appointment of former 02 business portfolio manager Damien Gallagher as its new head of business & new initiatives.

THE number of broadband subscribers grew by 15% in the second quarter of the year but Ireland still has one of the lowest penetration rates in Europe.

ADWALKER, the electronic advertising sandwich board company, has reported higher turnover and narrowing losses for the year to end February.

Workers at mobile phone giant 02 in Britain have overwhelmingly rejected a pay offer, raising the threat of industrial action, it was announced today.

BT Ireland saw its first-ever operating profit in the final quarter of the financial year to the end of March 2005, the company announced today.

The Communications Regulator has spelled out what it expects Vodafone and O2 to do to introduce more competition in the mobile phone market.

Gardaí were tonight carrying out a search of the area where the body of schoolboy Robert Holohan was found.

IRISH soccer fans who attended the recent World Cup qualifier in France may get billed for “phantom” calls, despite being without mobile phone coverage for most of last weekend.

DARREN CLARKE and Pádraig Harrington were at odds at The K-Club yesterday but only about the likely winning score in the €3.3m Smurfit European Open that gets underway over the splendid new South Course today.

THE price of mobile phone calls may fall after a decision by the communications regulator to reduce call termination charges.

A new plan to lease mast space to mobile phone firms could put €100m in the State coffers over the next 10 years.

The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) said today that mobile operators 02 and Vodafone have such a large slice of the Irish market that they will be ordered to allow other operators access their networks.

A HUGE surge in mobile phone theft has resulted in 40 mobile phones being reported stolen every day, according to official figures released yesterday.

Mm02, the company which operates the 02 mobile service, has said that it has formed an alliance with some of Europe’s smaller mobile phone companies.

MY last monthly statement from mobile phone operator 02 showed a price increase of more than double for text messages sent internationally.

METEOR, the third mobile phone operator in Ireland, believes it has a cast iron case for access to roaming facilities on the transmission systems of the two major players in the market.

Tesco said it is working with mobile operator 02 in the UK to launch a Tesco-branded mobile phone service. The joint venture will be known as Tesco Mobile.

Mapflow has completed a web-based ASP application that provides mapping to Amatics, as part of its telematics solution for Transco PLC.

Vodafone is to review is to review its roaming charges, charges that it makes to its customers when they use their mobile phones abroad.

02 has launched its Media Messaging Service (MMS), last week Vodafone launched its Vodafone Live MMS service.

The EU Commission has said that it will allow Deutsche Telekom's subsidiary T-Mobile and mm02 to share the cost of building base stations and other infrastructure in the UK and Germany.

The Telecommunications Regulator, Etain Doyle, today reconfirmed eircom, Vodafone and 02 as operators with Significant Market Power (SMP) in the Irish telecommunications market following a review of market shares for 2001.

Zamano, a Dublin provider of mobile applications has been nominated for an Annual Global Mobile Award, in the Best Mobile Internet Application category for its TxT Manager.

Shareholders of British Telecommunications, which last year bought Esat Telecom, have voted for the demerger of the company's mobile unit.