Industry co-operation

Addressing industry-wide issues

We collaborate with other information and communications companies to help us
operate as a responsible and sustainable industry.

On key social issues, such as health and network safety, O2 participates in and co-funds several industry groups:

• We chair the Mobile Data Association, GSM Europe’s Health and Environmental Working Group and the Mobile Operators’ Association Compliance Working Group in the UK.
  
• We chaired the Board of the Informationszentrum Mobilfunk e.V. (IZMF) –Germany’s information centre for health and mobile communications – in 2006. We vice-chair the BITKOM EMF sub-group.
  
• We are a member of the worldwide industry body, the GSM Association – a trade association representing global GSM mobile phone operators – and we are members of the GSM Association’s health policy working group and EMF Expert Panel.
  
• We help fund the independent Mobile Telecommunications Health Research programmes in the UK and in Germany.
  
• We are a member of the Irish Cellular Industry Association (ICIA) and the Telecommunications and Internet Federation (TIF).

Operators across the industry continued to co-operate to promote and implement the evolving voluntary Codes of Content on the responsible use of mobile phones in the UK, Germany and Ireland. These codes are the cornerstone of our commitment to protecting young people and other vulnerable groups from inappropriate content such as pornography.

During 2006 we made a commitment to work with major suppliers and other operators on labour standards and environmental practices in our supply chain. We are board members of the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) and we co-chair its supply-chain working group.

Telefónica O2 Czech Republic has signed the ETNO (European Network Operators’ Association) Sustainability charter.

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