It looks increasingly like O2 is going to be the network to take on the iPhone in the UK after Chief Executive Peter Erskine commented he was excited about the iPhone and hoped to market it later in the year. You can check out our story here. Mobile Choice has also reported that O2’s broadband service roll out looks to be scheduled for October, a full ten months after the original launch date. The network is hoping to emulate the likes of Orange and Vodafone with a complete mobile / broadband service.
If news of this delay wasn’t bad enough O2 also reported a decline in new customers with only 34,000 added in the second quarter, down 470,000 from the same period last year. Considering Vodafone signed up 236,000 new customers this is quite a shortfall for O2, although it still remains the UK’s largest network in terms of subscribers.
Lastly, after Pocket Picks revealed here that O2 was dumping its i-mode internet service, the network has said it will stop selling i-mode phone immediately but will carrying on supporting the service for the next two years to appease existing customers. That’s your lot from O2.
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