Electrical goods group Dixons-Carphone is still looking for a buyer for its iD Mobile arm in Ireland after seeing core group sales and profits slump in the first half of its financial year.

Mobile operator O2 could be forced to wait until next year to press ahead with a long-awaited £10 billion stock market flotation following delays to a crucial airwaves rights auction.

Munster Rugby marked the start of a new season by introducing a revamped commercial team, appointing head of commercial and marketing Enda Lynch to a new role of Head of Enterprise and promoting former captain Doug Howlett as his replacement.

Pope Francis, who earlier this year was reported - falsely - to have endorsed Donald Trump for US president, has warned about the dangers of fake news.

OnePlus 3 handsets have always been sold in a unique way online but a new business model beckons and the company is responding.

Telefonica, moving forward with a sale of stock in its infrastructure business as it seeks to pare debt, could do the same with its British wireless unit O2 this year if market conditions are favourable, chairman Jose Maria Alvarez-Pallete said.

The Spanish owner of O2 said it may float the British mobile network after seeing a tie-up with rival operator 3 collapse.

Three has been ranked the worst performing mobile network in Ireland lagging behind its competitors on network speed and data performance, in particular.

Irish Amateur champion Colm Campbell saw both sides of tour life this week. While he could look back on his Irish Open debut and lament missing the cut after being put on the clock completely destroyed his rhythm, he will remember it fondly instead thanks to Martin Kaymer.

The EU blocked Hutchison’s bid to create the UK’s biggest mobile carrier, the latest setback to consolidation that telecommunications operators say they need to funnel money into new networks.

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.

In the days before announcing his departure as chairman and chief executive of Telefonica, César Alierta boarded a private plane for Rome to confer with the Pope about his plan, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Three Ireland has brought a €65m partner on board to help overhaul its IT infrastructure and integrate O2’s systems following Three’s takeover of its rival in March 2015.

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

An O2 customer was expecting to find a handset in a delivered Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge box, but instead found a tin of sardines and a sponge!

EU antitrust regulators have launched a full investigation into Hutchison Whampoa’s £10.3bn (€14.4m) bid for British mobile operator O2, concerned that the deal may push up prices.

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.

Ireland’s newest entrant to the mobile phone market is promising cheaper bills, flexible plans and more transparency over your payments than any of its rivals.

There has been an alarming rise in the volume of child sexual abuse content online, with reports of illegal material by members of the public at an all-time high.

Thousands of customers are to be affected by a price hike from mobile phone operator Three.

Demand is far outstripping supply in Galway City’s main shopping thoroughfare, Shop St, with just one retail property currently available for lease.

Data Protection Minister Dara Murphy says network outages such as that which affected up to 1.5 million Three Ireland customers on Monday are “unacceptable” and highlight the need for greater investment in mobile phone network capacity.

Up to two million Three customers were left without service yesterday after an electrical failure in one of the mobile network’s data centres.

If Europe wants its mobile networks to be as advanced as those in the US, further mergers are necessary among wireless operators, said Ronan Dunne, the chief executive of Telefonica SA’s O2 unit.

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Billionaire Li Ka-shing’s Hutchison Whampoa Ltd has agreed to buy O2, Telefonica’s wireless carrier in the UK, for £10.25bn (€14bn) as consolidation heats up in Britain’s phone market.

O2 customers in Ireland will notice a change if they look at their network provider’s symbol on their phone; they are now officially a Three customer.

Debris found at the scene of a hit and run in which a cyclist died, came from a vehicle driven by a 22-year-old man on trial in connection with the incident.

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.

Li Ka-shing’s Hutchison Whampoa has agreed to buy Telefonica’s British mobile unit O2 for up to £10.25bn (€13.7bn), as Asia’s richest man makes his boldest bet yet to revamp his European telecoms business.

Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s pursuit of mobile phone operator O2 in a potential £10bn deal represents his biggest move yet in a long buying spree of UK assets.

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.

Just one of the 28 main internet providers in the country has so far signed up to a voluntary code of practice with the Gardaí restricting access to child abuse material.