O2 (UK) they can do it too" in reference to Vodafone and EE, O2's biggest competitors and the UK's top three mobile-telecoms companies. O2 (UK) Telefónica UK Limited (trading as O2 – stylised as O) is a telecommunications services provider in the United Kingdom, owned by the Spanish multinational Telefónica, and is headquartered in Slough. With 25 million subscribers (as of December 2017), O2 is the second-largest mobile network operator in the United Kingdom after EE, with Vodafone in third place. O2 was formed in 1985 as Cellnet, a 60:40 joint venture between BT Group and Securicor. In 1999, BT Group acquired
News World Communications News World Communications News World Communications Inc. is an international news media corporation. It was founded in New York City, in 1976, by Unification movement founder and leader Sun Myung Moon. Its first two newspapers, "The News World" (later renamed the "New York City Tribune") and the Spanish-language "Noticias del Mundo", were published in New York from 1976 until the early 1990s. In October 2009, Hyun Jin Moon took over as chairman. News World Communications currently owns United Press International, "GolfStyles (formerly "Washington Golf Monthly")", "Segye Ilbo" (South Korea), and "Sekai Nippo" (Japan). Formerly, it owned "The World and I",