A host of major contract wins helped BT Ireland to underlying annual revenue growth of 7% to the end of March.

A UK watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), has urged European regulators to effectively block the €12.7bn merger of mobile phone networks Three and O2.

Telecoms giant BT confirmed that it has begun a search to replace its long-serving group finance director.

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Talks between Vodafone and Liberty Global about exchanging assets to better compete in Europe’s converging mobile, broadband, and TV markets collapsed yesterday because they could not agree on the value of their businesses.

BT has agreed to buy Britain’s largest mobile operator EE in a cash and shares deal worth £12.5bn.

Sky said it was “in good shape” ahead of the imminent Premier League rights auction as it posted better-than-expected half-year results today and said it had signed up retail customers at the strongest pace in nine years.

TalkTalk warned full-year earnings would be at the lower end of expectations as it absorbed Tesco’s loss-making blinkbox operation and said its programme of cost savings was on course to miss its target.

BT has revealed that its pension deficit has swollen to £7bn as it agreed a 16-year recovery plan that will include £2bn in payments over the next three years.

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.

Britain’s BT Group is in early stage talks with Spain’s Telefonica on a deal to buy UK mobile operator O2, with two sources saying it has also begun negotiations with EE as it seeks a return to the British consumer mobile market.

Telecoms giant BT is in “highly preliminary” talks about buying mobile phone network O2.

Beleaguered mobile phone retailer Phones 4u is to close 362 stores, with the loss of nearly 1,700 jobs, administrators have said.

Network operator EE is to buy 58 Phones 4u stores in the UK in a deal saving more than 350 jobs at the collapsed mobile phone retailer.

Some of the 5,600 Phones 4U jobs in peril following the retailer’s collapse have been saved after Dixons Carphone offered to take on 800 posts.

The founder of UK retailer Phones 4u has blamed “extremely callous” mobile networks for the collapse of the company, which has put 5,600 jobs at risk.

The future of Phones 4u and its 5,600 employees is hanging by a thread today as administrators begin talks on whether any stores can reopen.

More than 500 Phones 4u stores were shut today after the retail chain plunged into administration – putting 5,600 jobs into jeopardy.

Phones 4u is to go into administration – placing more than 5,500 jobs at risk - after network operator EE joined Vodafone in cutting ties with the retailer.

Mobile operator Vodafone said today it will not renew its network agreement with British retailer Phones4u.

Thousands of music fans are expected to descend on a Somerset farm in England today as Glastonbury throws open its gates to revellers.

British mobile network EE has announced the creation of 250 jobs in Northern Ireland.

Speculation linking mobile phone giant Vodafone to a £60 billion takeover swoop from AT&T was shot down by the American firm today.

O2 Moves Customers To 4G For free

Mobile networks O2 and Vodafone are squaring up to rival firm EE as they launch their 4G data services today.

Vodafone is increasing its network spending by 50% to more than £900m (€1.05bn) this year as it prepares for the launch of super-fast mobile internet.

The Football Association has insisted it will not sell naming rights to Wembley Stadium.

More than 1,600 people have applied for 250 jobs at a new smartphone call centre in the south-east.

A call centre has delivered an early Christmas present of 250 jobs to an unemployment blackspot.

Two hundred and fifty new jobs have been created in Co Wexford.