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VIrgin Media O2 is giving its customers a difficult choice to make. Should they pay the new rates which are 8.8% higher or pay exorbitant exit fees to change over to a new provider?

All of the UK's mobile network providers will close down their 3G services in 2024 and 2025. Vodafone is being most aggressive as it will conduct the final shutdown phase this month and next.

More organisations have signed Ofcom's pledge to bring more women into senior tech roles. The pledge was originally signed by telecom companies from the UK in June but more have just signed.

Virgin Media O2 has relaunched its O2 Recycle for Business service to give companies an easy way to get rid of their old phones. The service ensures that old devices are kept out of landfills.

Virgin Media O2 has announced upgrades to its network in several staycation locations around the UK including Kent, Cornwall, East Sussex, Yorkshire, the Scottish Highlands and Hebrides.

Virgin Media O2 is teaming up with the Good Things Foundation to improve the UK workforce's digital skills. It said workers were missing out on billions of pounds in wages due to a skills gap.

The government is making it easier for welfare claimants to get social tariffs. Claimants can give permission to their ISP to check with the DWP to see if they're eligible for a social tariff.

Virgin Media O2 has revealed it will not be bringing back European roaming charges for customers on either the O2 or Virgin Mobile networks. It has no plans to reintroduce charges but could in future.

The UK government has announced that 2G and 3G connectivity will be switched off by 2033. This is the end date for the switch off but networks could choose to end support earlier than this.

Virgin Media O2 is now supporting gigabit broadband across its whole network which means it has achieved a government goal four years early after just two years of work. It has more upgrades coming.

Virgin Media O2 has teamed up with Good Things Foundation to launch the National Databank, a source of free data for those who could not otherwise afford it. They want to connect 255,000 people.

Samsung Electronics and Virgin Media O2 are collaborating to exhibit, through trials, their potential for providing reliable and immersive 4G and 5G mobile experiences to their customers.

Virgin Media O2 has announced that half of its broadband network is now able to access gigabit connectivity. By the end of the year it wants to make gigabit available on all of its network.