O2 is also planning to purchase Be Broadband. The strong Be Broadband brand is likely to be retained to take advantage of its current market reach.

The marketing of the products will be brought into the SME, broadband, consumer and corporate mobile teams by way of the mobile network operator.

Sally Cowdry, the marketing director, said that, though O2 is gaining in the broadband market, the market is still a challenging one. Change is one of the only few constants and they have to evolve, said Cowdry. She added that they have moved into offering multi-products and that the changes that they are making are such that they will align themselves to these multi-products.

As far as the mobile phone part is considered, the Pay As You Go and contract marketing teams will be brought in as a single division during restructuring and, rather than focusing on the package that the customers purchase, the focus of marketing will be on particular segments of the market.

They have set November as the month for completing their restructuring and Cowdry said that the staff affected by the restructuring can apply for the newly created roles.

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The Office of Fair Trading will be looking into how ecommerce and pricing practices affect customers, as well as the use of personal data in campaigns focusing particularly on information taken from observance of users’ online activities.

Aimed at encouraging an industry code of practice and any voluntary action on the part of firms as a result of the work, the market study could lead to recommendations being made by the COI to sector regulators or the UK government.

Senior director of the OFT’s consumer market group Heather Clayton has asked for consumer groups, businesses and organisations to suggest areas to focus on.

Clayton said:

“The way that businesses advertise and price goods and services constantly evolves and we need to keep up to date on how consumers view these adverts”.

This will be themed around the X Factor, asking the question: ‘Has your family got the Oxo Factor?’

Running across press and PR, it will invite families and groups of friends to make their own ad showing how they use Oxo for a chance of winning a £10k prize. Consumers will be able to download the script, upload entries and view them on a special website.

The five best films will be selected and aired on TV from mid October through to December. During this period consumers will be encouraged to vote for their favourite ad. The final ad will then be aired during the X Factor Final.

More than 2 million Oxo cubes are sold every day, and half of UK households use them to add extra flavour when preparing meals for their families.

The pre-paid card is called “Load & Go” and it’s a Visa card, identical to the other plastic cards in an individual’s wallet. But it’s not a debit card (which deducts money from a current account) or a credit card (which allows users to go into debt). Instead it’s a “pre-pay” card, where the holder does not need to have a current account. A parent or guardian can load money on to the card from an online bank account or at 20,000 pay points around the country.

Once the money is on the card, teenagers can use it how they like – to take cash out of an ATM, to buy goods in a shop (using a Pin number) and to buy a multitude of things online. Every time a purchase is made, O2 will send the card holder a text showing the remaining balance on the card.

The average age in the UK at which a child obtains a mobile phone is now just eight years old, and one in five children are already “borrowing” their parents’ debit or credit card to buy goods on the net, such as music downloads.

So, is O2 right to target teenagers in this way?

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