O2 is a leading provider of mobile and broadband services to consumers and businesses in the UK.  These services include voice, text, media messaging, games, music and video, as well as always on data connections via GPRS, 3G, ASDL+ and WLAN. Every month, O2's 17.8 million customers send well over a billion text messages.  O2 UK is part of Telefónica O2 Europe which comprises mobile network operators in the UK, Ireland and Slovakia along with integrated fixed / mobile businesses in Germany and the Czech Republic.  Telefónica O2 Europe also owns 50% of the Tesco Mobile and Tchibo Mobilfunk joint venture businesses in the UK and Germany respectively as well as having 100% ownership of Be, a leading UK fixed broadband provider

O2 was ranked as 5th best place to work in the Best Companies to Work for 2007 List and has been awarded a two-star accreditation denoting an 'outstanding' company.