Status: For Immediate Release
Ref.: ATPR 0020 – O2 Joined Up
Date: 27 October 2009
AVENIR AND 02 GET 'JOINED UP'
Leading telecoms distributor and pioneering operator partner to roll out
converged comms solution to UK channel
Avenir Telecom, the UK's leading business-to-business telecoms distributor, today announced a partnership with O2 to provide its new Joined Up communications service to the UK channel. Avenir is O2's leading distribution partner, and Joined Up is a fixed line service which will enable businesses to have one single converged solution for their telecoms requirements.
Avenir has already taken orders for this innovative, truly converged, fixed and mobile solution.
"Joined Up represents the start of a new era in how UK businesses communicate," comments Andy Tow, Managing Director, Avenir Telecom. "It's the end of an era where you have to choose between one set of suppliers for your mobile communications and another set for your landlines."
"Such converged solutions have been touted for some time. But we're seeing them become increasingly requested (expected, in fact) by customers. As a distributor firmly focused on the B2B sector, we see Joined Up as an extremely beneficial proposition to our extensive base of mobile and communications dealers who sell to SME and SOHO businesses."
About Avenir Telecom
Currently celebrating its 20th anniversary, Avenir Telecom is one of Europe's biggest and longest-standing distributors of telephony products and services. In the UK, Avenir focuses on the distribution of airtime (mobile and landline), accessories and IT/telecoms convergence solutions in the business-to-business space. It works with the leading B2B network operators including O2, 3, Orange and Opal, the business-to-business division of the TalkTalk group. Avenir employs over 3,000 people across six countries: Bulgaria, France, Portugal, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom. It is listed on the NYSE Euronext - Compartment B (Euronext Paris). Its shares form part of the CAC All shares, CAC Mid & Small 190, CAC Small 90, IT CAC, Next150 and SBF 250 indices. ISIN: FR0000066052. Reuters: AVOM.LN. Bloomberg: AVT:FP. More info: www.avenir-telecom.co.uk.
Media Contact
Further information, photography and interviews are available from:
Ian Peel
Avenir Accessories Press Office
@ Solid State Marcomms
Tel: 07775 937494
Email: ian@solidstatemarcomms.com