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Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 18 Aug 2008 06:46 AM PST
BskyB already dominates the pay-TV market with Sky, but now it looks like it’s scoring impressive gains in broadband access as well, having now amassed 1.6 million customers since its…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 17 Jun 2008 12:40 AM PST
Maybe Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will meet that 10 million iPhones target after all. O2, the exclusive UK carrier, says more than 130,000 people have used its online form to pre-register…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 13 May 2008 04:50 AM PST
Carphone Warehouse is out of the running to acquire Italian broadband provider Tiscali, reports FT.com. Tiscali rejected the British mobile phone retailer and broadband provider from its shortlist after the…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 09 May 2008 02:35 AM PST
Tiscali’s sale appears to have garnered interest from a gamut of first-round bidders. Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), BT (NYSE: BT), Carphone Warehouse, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), Swisscom’s Fastweb and Wind all put…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 08 May 2008 12:38 PM PST
U.S. electronics store Best Buy said today that it is paying $2.1 billion for half of Carphone Warehouse in order to enter the European consumer electronics market, Reuters reports. Carphone’s…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 14 Apr 2008 01:20 AM PST
Highlights from a conflict-laden weekend… -- Virgin vs publishers: Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is “already in talks with unnamed content providers about paying to have their content delivered faster than…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Jan 2008 04:00 AM PST
Carphone Warehouse gained 118,000 net new broadband subscribers in the quarter to December 29, taking it up to 2.6 million, and the TalkTalk churn rate held steady. It helped fixed-line…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 03 Dec 2007 03:59 AM PST
[With Dianne See Morrison] If the UK’s broadband network is to be upgraded to the kinds of speeds enjoyed in South Korea, somebody’s going to have to pay for it…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 12 Nov 2007 07:23 AM PST
Updated: O2 told us “we never give out individual handset statistics” but CEO Peter Erskine said in a conference call: “It’s been the fastest selling device we have ever seen.…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 08 Nov 2007 02:39 PM PST
The Carphone Warehouse took a £7 million hit in the 26 weeks to September 29 from costs of integrating the AOL (NYSE: TWX) ISP bought in late 2006 for £370…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 02 Nov 2007 11:48 PM PST
First Carphone Warehouse predicted 10K iPhone sales on day one through its stores...now the iPhone operator in UK O2 has come out with some numbers of its own: Up to…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 01 Nov 2007 11:38 AM PST
So it hopes: Carphone Warehouse expects to sell 10,000 Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhones on launch day (Nov 9) in the U.K...Carphone has an exclusive third-party deal with Apple on the…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 24 Oct 2007 05:23 AM PST
UK’s Carphone Warehouse has launched a second mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), reselling Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) minutes under the TalkMobile brand. TalkMobile is a postpaid offering whereas its other MVNO…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 18 Sep 2007 04:10 PM PST
Some industry types are starting to use military lexicon to describe what they see as the looming possibility internet service providers will force broadcasters to cough up cash for online…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 18 Sep 2007 07:52 AM PST
Not necessarily content related, but Carphone Warehouse is the iPhone retailer, as well as heavily invested in pushing mobile content and applications at point-of-sale: US electronic retailer Best Buy has…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 06 Sep 2007 02:56 AM PST
Carphone Warehouse (LON:CPW) is to act as an in-store reseller for broadband, TV, mobile and fixed-line services from Virgin Media (Nasdaq:VMED), Telegraph.co.uk reports. It could even do the same for…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 16 Aug 2007 08:14 AM PST
What’s the best way to extricate the BBC from the bandwidth nightmare some ISPs this week said the corporation’s iPlayer will wreak? Build faster broadband, says the U.K. media regulator.…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 12 Aug 2007 10:04 PM PST
This has shades of net neutrality debate: in UK, three of the biggest broadband providers Tiscali, BT and Carphone Warehouse, among others, have spoken to BBC amid growing anger over…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 03 Aug 2007 12:49 AM PST
Online ad networks are coming under closer scrutiny in the UK as the press outs brands for advertising at controversial websites. BBC’s Panorama investigation, which this week criticized YouTube for…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 26 Jul 2007 08:50 AM PST
TradeDoubler, the Stockholm-based pan-European internet affiliate advertising network, has bought Internet Marketing Works (IMW Group), a holding group for two two search marketing companies, for £56 million ($115 million) in…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 09 Jul 2007 08:44 PM PST
Omnifone, a music subscription service launching in Europe with partnerships with major labels and handset manufacturers, may not be going with an operator partner in the UK. In response to…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 09 Jul 2007 12:16 AM PST
Catching up from our break ... Channel 4: Ofcom awarded the consortium led by the broadcaster the 12-year license to run a second national digital radio multiplex to 4 Digital,…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 04 Jul 2007 11:31 PM PST
Everyone and their mother-in-law is reporting that European operator O2, owned by Spanish telecom giant Telefonica, is close to clinching the deal to launch Apple’s iPhone in UK...this comes after…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 19 Jun 2007 01:47 AM PST
Carphone Warehouse is apparently in talks with Omniphone (which launched in Sweden last week) for an exclusive deal to offer its Music Station service on the handsets it sells. “According…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 25 Apr 2007 07:43 AM PST
Carphone Warehouse says it has abandoned hope of following Cingular/AT&T in securing an exclusive partnership to retail Apple’s iPhone, according to the Times of London. Europe’s largest mobile phone retailer…
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