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<span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'>O2 Abolishes Roaming Charges Between The Irelands</span>

O2 Ireland has became the first operator in Ireland to abolish roaming charges between the Southern Republic of Ireland and British Northern Ireland for all of it's 1.6 million customers. In addition the company has abolished roaming charges across Great Britain and Ireland for its business customers. From April 2006, roaming between Ireland and Northern Ireland will be abolished on O2's network for it's 1.6 million pre pay (speak easy), post pay (contract) customers. This means that these customers will not be charged for calls they receive while roaming in Northern Ireland.

Speaking at the launch, Danuta Gray, CEO O2 Ireland said; "At O2 our primary focus is listening to what our customer's need and adjusting our services to meet those needs. Our customers have told us that it makes no sense to pay roaming charges while making calls on the island of Ireland. This is particularly important to our customers who live and work near the border, many of whom have had to endure inadvertent roaming charges. Having listened carefully to this feedback, we are delighted to abolish roaming charges on the island of Ireland for our 1.6 million customers."

More importantly, the new all-Island pricing initiatives from O2 Ireland will end inadvertent roaming for O2 Ireland customers in the border counties. This has been made possible though a collaboration between O2 Ireland and O2 UK. To ensure that O2 Ireland customers benefit from the elimination of roaming charges and the new flat rate, customers should select the O2 UK network while roaming in Northern Ireland.

O2 Ireland also announced today that in recognition of the economic importance of trade between Ireland and the UK, from Monday 13th February, the company is to abolish roaming charges between Ireland and the UK for O2 Ireland corporate and SME customers. The all-island pricing will be applied to corporate and SME business customers from this date and they will no longer pay to receive a call when roaming in the UK. Calls in the UK and calls back to the Republic of Ireland will be charged at the domestic rate business customers pay according to their individual price plans.