Mobile phone companies, including Vodafone and O2, are likely to be frontrunners in the race to buy the UK arm of AOL, which was put up for sale last week, a report from the UK paper The Mail said.
The Mail report said industry experts believed AOL,
"There is a very aggressive price war happening. Not all of the names around today will be around in a year or two," Richard Ireland, partner and head of accountancy at Ernst & Young, was quoted as saying.