O2 (UK) 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 Securicor's share of Cellnet and the company was later rebranded as BT Cellnet. In June 2000, BT Cellnet launched the world's
Kerala State Beverages Corporation on the rise with even the President expressing deep concern about the rising alcoholism in Kerala. Kerala State Beverages Corporation Kerala State Beverages Corporation Ltd (BEVCO) is a public sector company owned by the Government of Kerala, which has a monopoly over wholesale and retail vending of alcohol in Kerala. It controls the retail sale of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) and beer trade in the state. As per recommendation of a judicial commission, Kerala Government in 1984 amended the Abkari Act and set up a Public Sector Corporation to procure spirit and arrange blending, bottling, sealing and distribution of