O2 sues customers as unpaid mobile phone bills spiral

MOBILE phone company O2 has launched a crackdown on debtors, last week taking 70 people to court to recover €100,000 in unpaid phone bills.

Of the 126 men, women and businesses named as debtors in the current Stubbs Gazette, more than half owe money to O2, Ireland’s second-largest mobile phone firm.

The country’s biggest unpaid bill rung up by an individual was for €3,874 and belonged to a man in Togher, Cork. O2 last week secured a judgment against him at the district court.