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.

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.

Tesco Mobile has stated that it now has 300,000 customers, an increase of over 40% in one year.

It may have been the end of the road for Trap but University College Cork hopes Tuesday’s soccer clash in Vienna might spark the beginning of some students’ ambitions to study there.

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

Christmas greetings via text message are less popular this year, figures suggest.

Two thirds of Irish people have family and friends away from home this Christmas, according to a survey by Tesco Mobile.

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

TESCO saw sales drop 3.4% at its Irish stores to €1.5 billion in the first half of the year as customers spent less on non-food items.

Concerns are being expressed at a survey which has found 37% of 8-year-old children in Ireland have a mobile phone.

PRIMARY school principals have asked for a revision of the Stay Safe programme to cover text bullying after a survey showed 37% of eight year olds now own mobile phones.

VODAFONE and O2 have close to four million mobile phone customers in Ireland despite the population being just 4.58 million.

O2’s postpay customer base increased by 12,000, it was announced today.

Revenue at BT Ireland decreased by 3% in the year to the end of March to £749.8m (€856m).

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

HARD-UP Hugh Hefner will be touched.

Supermarket giant Tesco’s mobile phone arm could be put out of business under network shake-up plans from UK telecoms regulator Ofcom, it was reported today.

MOBILE phone service provider O2, a subsidiary of Telefonica of Spain, has reported modest third-quarter growth in sales and profits yesterday.

TESCO and mobile group O2 said yesterday their Irish units would launch a 50:50 joint venture next year to sell Tesco-branded mobile services in Ireland.

Mobile phone company O2 today announced its move into the broadband market with the £50m (€73.3m) acquisition of Be.

Supermarket giant Tesco has signed up 250,000 customers to its mobile phone service since it was launched in the UK last September, it announced today.

British mobile phone users were today offered a new flat-rate call tariff dispensing with separate peak and off-peak rates.

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.