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
PageOne Communications PageOne Communications PageOne is a British Messaging Solutions company based in Brentford, London. For over 25 years PageOne have provided tailored and bespoke messaging and communications services. PageOne also operate one of the largest public paging networks in the UK. PageOne also provide: PageOne was the first paging operator in Europe to use satellite links for the distribution of pager messages, the first company to forward emails to pagers, the first to launch 'Calling Party pays' Pagers and helped pioneer the use of SMS technology as part of organisational communications. As of 2009, PageOne is the first and only organisation