Carphone Warehouse is teaming up with Three, following Three's buyout of O2 Ireland, and its new network will initially employ 50 new staff.

It will take about a year for UPC to get its mobile phone network up and running and become Ireland’s second operator to offer TV, broadband, telephone and mobile in a single package.

Communications company UPC is to enter the mobile phone market, having signed an agreement with the Three network.

Eircom’s revenues fell by 6%, year-on-year, in the first nine months of its current financial year, with underlying earnings down by 1%.

Hutchison Whampoa will win EU approval to take over Telefonica’s O2 Ireland unit as soon as Wednesday after a key EU panel backed the deal.

The Employment Appeals Tribunal ruled the Irish arm of mobile phone giant O2’s dismissal of a Limerick call centre worker "was highly disproportionate, undeserved, and unreasonable".

Andrew Trimble pipped Peter O’Mahony to the players’ player of the year gong at last night’s IRUPA awards ceremony.

Hutchison Whampoa is offering to help a smaller rival become Ireland’s fourth mobile operator in a bid to win EU approval for its acquisition of Telefonica’s O2 Ireland unit, according to sources.

Three Ireland made a pre-tax loss of €29m last year, according to the latest set of annual results from its Hong Kong-based parent, Hutchison Whampoa.

Mobile communications company, Three Ireland has promised to offer “strong and effective remedies” to address European Commission concerns into its proposed takeover of rival network provider, O2 Ireland, ahead of a formal ruling on the deal at the end of April.

Three Ireland says it is working with the European Commission on its proposed acquisition of O2 Ireland.

EU anti-trust regulators will investigate whether Hutchison Whampoa’s $1.05bn (€780m) bid for Telefonica’s Irish unit will reduce competition in the mobile telephony market in Ireland, the European Commission said yesterday.

Profits decreased sharply at UK retail giant, Tesco’s mobile business in Ireland last year in spite of revenues increasing by 58% to €34m

Customer numbers jumped by almost 18% at Three Ireland during the first half of 2013, with the mobile communications company also reaching break-even point — on an EBITDA basis — for the first time in its eight year history.

The speed at which Three Ireland has tied up a deal for O2 Ireland — competition approval permitting — amply illustrates the company’s determination to grow here, its ability to flex some financial muscle when necessary, and its ambition to become clear market leader inside the next decade.

The mobile phone company O2 Ireland has been bought by Three in a deal worth up to €850m.

Hutchison Whampoa, which operates Irish mobile network 3, is in advanced talks to buy O2, four people with knowledge of the negotiations said.

A Chinese company which has overtaken Ericsson as the world’s largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment is to create 50 jobs here.

A leading information and communications technology solutions provider is doubling its Irish workforce with 50 new jobs.

Revenues at British retail giant Tesco’s mobile business in Ireland doubled last year to €21.5 million as the firm recorded a pre-tax profit of over €5m.

O2 Ireland is to cut some 120 jobs from its 1,100-strong Irish workforce, following a comprehensive review of the business.

O2 Ireland is to shed some 120 jobs from its Irish workforce, it was announced today.

O2 Ireland’s total customer base dipped from 1.7m to 1.65m people last year, according to figures from the mobile communications provider.

Luke Fitzgerald and Tomás O’Leary are two of the big names who must be content with a place in the Irish Wolfhounds having missed out on Declan Kidney’s first choice Six Nations squad.

TONY HANWAY has been appointed chief executive of Telefonica/O2 Ireland. He replaces Stephen Shurrock, who only took up the role late last year.

O2 Ireland's data revenue saw a significant jump of more than 18% in the three months to the end of March compared to the same period last year, the company said today.

O2 Ireland and Eircom today announced a major new strategic partnership to create the first comprehensive mobile network sharing arrangement in Ireland.

O2 IRELAND’s customer base dipped by about 18,000 last year, although its post pay/billed customer numbers increased by nearly 7,000.

WELSHMAN Stephen Shurrock has been appointed chief executive of O2 Ireland, taking over from Danuta Gray who has announced her resignation after nine years in the post.

The CEO of O2 Ireland has announced her resignation.

Dublin: Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny will address the Construction Industry Federation (CIF) annual national conference next week in Dublin.

O2 IRELAND attracted 5,200 new customers during the second quarter of this year, to bring its total subscriber base to 1.711 million people as of the end of June.

O2 Ireland added 5,200 new customers in the second quarter of this year, to reach 1.711 million customers at the end of June, the company said today.

O2 saw its Irish customer base fall slightly in the year to the end of March as service revenue dropped 6% to €196 million.

O2 IRELAND’S total customer numbers dipped slightly, last year, but the company maintained its market leading position in the lucrative post-pay/bill pay sector.

Fifty jobs are to go at O2 Ireland, the company has revealed.

THE start of the new year has seen a year-on-year doubling in the number of senior executives in small firms looking ahead with confidence.

IRISH customers of O2 and Vodafone sent almost two billion text messages in the three months to the end of September representing a 25% increase on the same period last year.

O2 Ireland has today announced that it is to extend its of its sponsorship of Cork GAA for a further three years.

O2 HAS made further dents in Vodafone’s market leader position in the Irish mobile communications provider market, by becoming — for the first time — the leader in the post-pay/bill pay mobile phone market and increasing its overall customer base.

BT IRELAND says planned job cuts will not directly affect operations here and that any cuts in Ireland will be solely down to natural attrition. BT Group said yesterday that it will continue to look at lowering costs, with 15,000 job cuts expected to be implemented this year.

Cork received a welcome jobs boost today with the confirmation that US online gaming company Big Fish Games is to set up its European headquarters in the city's Mahon suburb, creating up to 100 positions over the next three years.

CONVICTED murderer Joe O’Reilly has failed to overturn his conviction for the murder of his wife Rachel after the Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) dismissed all grounds of his appeal.

Convicted murderer Joe O'Reilly has today lost his appeal against his conviction for the murder of his wife Rachel at their home in The Naul, Co Dublin.