TalkTalk is crazy in love with 02 as firms team up in 'offensive' move to boost mobile phone sales

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TalkTalk has teamed up with O2 in an ‘offensive’ move to boost mobile phone sales.

The home entertainment and broadband provider is trying to get into so-called quad play – offering mobile, landline, TV and internet on a single bill.

It has ditched its arrangement with Vodafone and will instead work on technology that will allow customers to make mobile phone calls over a network linked to their home internet. 

Crazy for each other: TalkTalk has teamed up with O2 in an ‘offensive’ move to boost mobile phone sales. O2, which owns concert venue the O2 in London that hosts stars such as Beyoncé, is owned by Spanish telecoms goliath Telefonica

‘This will mean you don’t have to hang out of the window to get a good signal,’ said TalkTalk’s chief executive Baroness Dido Harding.

O2, which owns concert venue the O2 in London that hosts stars such as Beyoncé, is owned by Spanish telecoms goliath Telefonica.

There has been speculation that TalkTalk and O2 could merge in due course.

TalkTalk shares rose 3.8p to 294.1p yesterday.