The Big Interview
Jo O’Donovan, Eir director of mobile: ‘GoMo hit 250,000 in 16 months – that was ferocious’
The Ringsend native on how she went from studying chemistry to working in telco
Growing up in Ringsend in the 1980s and 1990s, Jo O’Donovan remembers there not being a phone in her parents’ house.
The recently appointed director of mobile at Eir remembers how she would have to arrange for friends to call her at a specific phone box at particular time and might still have to wait outside while someone else took a call.
“When you got to the phone box there might be somebody else in ...