O2 (UK) telephone line and broadband business of Telefónica UK, trading under the O2 and Be brands. The company agreed to pay £180 million initially, followed by a further £20 million after all customers had been transferred to Sky's existing business. The sale was subject to regulatory approval in April 2013, and was subsequently approved by the Office of Fair Trading on 16 May 2013. O2 began trialling a Near Field Communication (NFC) payment system in 2007. In 2009, O2 was in discussions with large retailers, such as Tesco and W. H. Smith, for the deployment of the necessary electronic point of
Frontier Communications of Mondovi Frontier Communications of Mondovi Frontier Communications of Mondovi LLC is a telephone operating of Frontier Communications providing local telephone services to Mondovi, Wisconsin. The company was founded in 1904 as the Mondovi Telephone Company. It was later acquired by Rochester Telephone. In 1994, Rochester Tel changed its name to Frontier Corporation, resulting in Mondovi Telephone becoming Frontier Communications of Mondovi, Inc. The company later became an LLC. Many people regard Frontier Communications as the worst in the industry, offering a 3Mbps connection in rural Mondovi. Users rarely receive said speeds. There was an outage on 4/25/17 that lasted from approximately