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 Breezewood an LLC in 2003. Frontier Communications of Breezewood Frontier Communications of Breezewood, LLC is a Frontier Communications operating company providing local telephone services to Breezewood, Pennsylvania. It also provides telephone service to Needmore, New Grenada, and Warfordsburg. The company was founded in 1974. It was acquired by Rochester Telephone as it began to expand nationally. In 1994, Rochester Telephone changed its name to Frontier Corporation, and the local operating company became known as Frontier Communications of Breezewood, Inc. Global Crossing acquired Frontier in 1999, and Citizens Communications acquired Global Crossing's Frontier assets in 2001, and has owned it since. The