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O2 (www.o2.co.uk<\/a>) has announced plans to invest ‘hundreds of millions of pounds’ to extend its UK mobile broadband coverage.<\/b>
\nThe multi-year programme of investment means O2 will be building 1,500 new network sites across the UK in 2010, 40 of which will be live in London by this Christmas.
\nO2’s Chief Technology Officer, Derek McManusfor said: \u201cAnticipating growth in demand for mobile services, we have quarter on quarter increased investment in our voice and data networks. Our \u00a3500m investment over the last two years has enabled us to offer our customers the best products in the world, including the Apple iPhone and Palm Pre”.
\nMcManusfor continued, \u201cIn the past 12 months the mobile industry has seen an unprecedented change in demand. The introduction of world-class devices, in combination with a wide variety of data applications, has brought about a dramatic change in customer behaviour and created an exponential demand on mobile data networks”.
\n\u201cWe are now aggressively accelerating our network growth programme to ensure we have significant headroom for the future and retain our focus on being number one for customer satisfaction”.
\nO2’s mobile broadband network currently covers 84% of the UK, well behind that of Orange<\/a> and 3<\/a> who provide over 90% UK coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

O2 (www.o2.co.uk) has announced plans to invest ‘hundreds of millions of pounds’ to extend its UK mobile broadband coverage. The multi-year programme of investment means O2 will be building 1,500 new network sites across the UK in 2010, 40 of which will be live in London by this Christmas. O2’s Chief Technology Officer, Derek McManusfor<\/p>\n