IT may be considered by some to have lost its allure, but TV3 show The Apprentice has seen its audience numbers rocket by more than 100,000 in a single year.

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.

The takeover of eircom by Singapore-based STT Communications has been formally approved by the Federal Court of Australia.

THE takeover of Eircom by Singapore-based STT Communications has been formally approved by the Federal Court of Australia.

EIRCOM refused to give any update, yesterday, on where the likely takeover by Singapore Technologies Telemedia (STT) currently stands, but did say that it remains on track to lower its annual operating costs by €130 million within two years.

British Gas group Centrica has boosted its telecoms portfolio by snapping up rival Telco for £43m (€62m), it said today.

IT was the 1970s before the first telephone was installed into south Kerry’s Black Valley.

MINISTER for Communications Dermot Ahern says he wants prices in the telecommunications sector to fall or he will intervene in the market.