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Report of a Foreign Private Issuer   —   Form 6-K
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FORM 6-K

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

Report of Foreign Private Issuer

 Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 01 April 2004

mmO2 plc

 Wellington Street
Slough, Berkshire SL1 1YP, England

(Address of principal executive offices)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports 
under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F                                              

Form 20-F..X... Form 40-F.....

Indicate by check mark whether the  registrant  by  furnishing  the  information
contained  in this  Form is  also  thereby  furnishing  the  information  to the
Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 Yes ..... No ..X...

If "Yes" is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant   
in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82 ________                                  

Enclosure:                                                                      

Copy of announcement regarding Starmap Mobile Alliance sent to the              
London Stock Exchange on 01 April 2004                                          

press release                                                                   

PR0410                                                                          

STARMAP MOBILE ALLIANCE ADDS DENMARK TO ITS FOOTPRINT,
 SIGNS SONOFON

Released: 1st April 2004                                                        

The Starmap mobile alliance today announced the immediate accession of SONOFON  
A/S. The alliance now consists of 10 leading operators providing seamless mobile
voice and data services to more than 46 million subscribers.                    

SONOFON, the number two operator in Denmark, now joins the Starmap mobile       
alliance with equal and full membership rights alongside the current nine       
operators. SONOFON will immediately start to co-operate in roaming, procurement,
sales and marketing initiatives set out by the alliance and will be able to     
roll-out the Starmap endorsement brand with its key products and services.      

The expansion of the Starmap mobile alliance re-enforces its ambition to        
increase coverage and scale in key geographical areas. "We are pleased to join  
Starmap and look forward to leveraging the increased scale the alliance offers  
and to enable even better services for our customers when traveling abroad,"    
said Tage Reinert, chief executive officer, SONOFON.                            

"We welcome SONOFON as an important and equal member of the Starmap mobile      
alliance. This announcement today underlines our commitment to expand in key    
territories, further increasing our scale and scope towards customers and       
suppliers," said Rafael Wariwoda of ONE. Consistent with the alliance's stated  
processes and governance, Mr. Wariwoda now takes over the chairmanship from     
Joaquin Mollinedo of Amena.                                                     

SONOFON is the second largest mobile operator in Denmark with more than 1       
million customers and an annual turnover of more than EUR575 million.           

The Starmap mobile alliance has ten members: Amena (Spain), O2 (Germany, the UK 
and Ireland), One (Austria), Pannon GSM (Hungary), SONOFON (Denmark), sunrise   
(Switzerland), Telenor Mobil (Norway) and Wind (Italy), covering a subscriber   
base of more than 46 million. A customer can already benefit from GPRS and MMS  
roaming, as well as access to familiar services such as voice-mail and          
short-codes whilst traveling in other alliance countries. Flat rate roaming     
tariffs aimed at corporate subscribers have been introduced in a number of      
countries.                                                                      

Under the stewardship of a management board comprising representatives of each  
operator, the Starmap mobile alliance cooperates to provide an environment for  
innovative, attractive and easy to use services, granting a                     
'home-away-from-home' experience for its customers, encompassing the simplicity,
convenience and service quality to which customers are accustomed to at home.   
The Starmap mobile alliance is collaborating in areas of sourcing, technology   
and sales to large corporate customers.                                         

For more information, visit www.starmapmobile.com                               

mmO2                                                                            
mmO2 has more than 20 million customers and 100% ownership of mobile network    
operators in three countries - the UK, Germany and Ireland - as well as leading 
mobile Internet portal business. All of these businesses are branded as O2.     
Additionally, the company has operations on the Isle of Man (Manx Telecom) and  
owns O2 Airwave - an advanced, digital emergency communications service.        

mmO2 has some 13,000 employees and reported revenues for the year ended 31 March
2003 of GBP4.874  billion.  Data represented  20.9% of total service revenues in
the quarter ending 31 December 2003.                                            

mmO2 plc                                                                        
David Nicholas                          Simon Gordon                            
Director of Communications              Press Relations Manager                 
david.nicholas@o2.com                   simon.gordon@o2.com                     
t: +44 (0) 771 575 9176                 t: +44 (0)771 007 0698                  

mmO2 press office: 01753 628402.                                                

All mmO2 Group news releases can be accessed at our web site: www.mmo2.com      

Amena                                                                           
Amena is the mobile operator of Group Auna, the leading alternative telecom     
operator in Spain. Amena had a total of 8.161.000 subscribers at the end of 2003
and a market share of 21,8% of the Spanish market. In 2003, Amena added         
1.700.000 new customers, 42,8 % market share. In 2003, Amena achieved 183       
million euros bottom line being leader in innovation and simpliciy at the time. 
Amena was the first operator in Spain to launch GPRS, MMS or video messaging and
streaming services.                                                             

Manuel Bueno Montoya                                                            
Press director Auna Group                                                       
+34.91.202.50.61                                                                

Fernando Castro Izuzquiza                                                       
Chief of press of Amena                                                         
+34.656.155.213                                                                 

ONE                                                                             
ONE GmbH, known as ONE in Austria has 1.8 million customers and a population    
coverage of 98%. ONE is also the only mobile provider in Austria with a         
nation-wide GSM 1800 mobile telephony network and the market leader in WLAN with
over 500 hotspots. With 1100 employees and a total of 1.8 million customers ONE 
focuses on service, product development and usability all linked to the easy to 
use interface ONE SMILE. Turnover end of 2003 reached 640 million Euro with     
investments of up to 1.65 billion Euro. Shareholders include German E.ON        
(50.10%) Norway's Telenor (17.45%) Orange, France (17.45%) and Denmark's TDC    
(15%)                                                                           

Cindy NTM?geli-du Pont,                                                         
t :+43 699-1699 3400,                                                           
e-mail: cindy.naegeli-dupont@one.at                                             

Pannon GSM                                                                      
Pannon GSM, owned 100% by Telenor Mobile Norway, had by the end of 2003         
approximately 36% share of the Hungarian mobile market, where the penetration   
exceeds 78%. Pannon GSM for already 10 years offers wide range of               
telecommunication services to customers from individual consumers to large size 
companies as well. Services can be voice or data services (for example HSCSD),  
based on dual-band GSM (900 and 1800), GPRS and recently EDGE technology. By the
end of January 2004, the company had GSM roaming agreements with 271 mobile     
operators in 111 countries.                                                     

Ferenc Denes                                                                    
Wholesales Director                                                             
fdenes@pgsm.hu                                                                  
+ 36 20 930 2078                                                                
www.pannongsm.hu                                                                

SONOFON                                                                         
SONOFON is a Danish mobile operator with a special emphasis on flexible, useful 
and above-all simple solutions. The company was launched in 1991 and has enjoyed
continuous growth over the past ten years. Today, SONOFON is the second largest 
mobile operator in Denmark with more than a million own mobile subscribers and  
turnover of more than EUR575 million (Q4, 2003). Telenor has a 100 per cent     
holding in SONOFON.                                                             

Bo Heimann                                                                      
Const. Director Corporate Communications                                        
BOH@sonofon.dk                                                                  
+4572126065                                                                     
www.sonofon.dk                                                                  
sunrise                                                                         
sunrise is the brand name of TDC Switzerland AG, the company resulting from the 
merger of the telecommunications companies diAx and sunrise. The TDC Group owns 
100% of the share capital of TDC Switzerland AG. sunrise offers its customers   
state-of-the-art telecommunications services in the areas of mobile phone, fixed
network and Internet. The sunrise mobile phone network has the most modern GSM  
dual band infrastructure in Switzerland and already provides a mobile phone     
coverage of 98%. sunrise has a high-quality, high-performance fiber optic       
network with a total length of 7000 kilometers - Swiss-wide. Presently, sunrise 
has approximately 2500 employees.                                               

Monika Walser                                                                   
Executive Director Corporate Communications                                     
media@sunrise.net                                                               
+41 (0)1 555 69 33                                                              
www.sunrise.net                                                                 
Media-Hotline 0800 333 000                                                      

Telenor Mobil                                                                   
At the end of 2003, Telenor Mobil had 2.3 million customers, equivalent to 57%  
of the Norwegian market. The mobile penetration in Norway is approximately 90%. 
Telenor Mobil's success has stemmed from customer friendly wireless             
communications. Telenor Mobil's wide range of services and subscriptions include
m-commerce through Content Provider Access and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). 

Sigurd Sandvin                                                                  
Head of Information                                                             
sigurd.sandvin@telenor.com                                                      
T: +47 905 21 100                                                               
www.telenormobil.no                                                             

Wind                                                                            
Wind started-up operations early in 1999 as the first European operator of      
integrated mobile, landline and Internet services for consumer and business     
clients. Its nationwide DCS/GSM mobile network covers over 98% of population,   
with strong voice and data capabilities. Wind, a leading company for innovation,
is an i-mode(tm) operator since the end of 2003, and it is going to begin UMTS  
commercial services in 10 major cities in 2004. As of June 30 2003, Wind boasted
30.6 million customers, including 9.2 mobile users.                             

Gianni Di Giovanni                                                              
Responsabile Comunicazione con i Media                                          
Media Communication Director                                                    
Via C.G.Viola, 48 - 00148 Roma                                                  
Tel +39 06 8311 4546                                                            
Fax +39 06 8311 5153                                                            
Via Lorenteggio , 257 - Milano                                                  
Tel +39 02 3011 5416                                                            
Fax +39 02 3011 5455                                                            
gianni.digiovanni@mail.wind.it                                                  

SIGNATURE           

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the        
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the        
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.                                         

                          mmO2 plc

Date: 01 April 2004                        By:___/s/ Robert Harwood___          

                    ROBERT HARWOOD
                         Assistant Secretary