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Sky Forging Ahead In Broadband Market As Downturn Hits Rivals - 0 Comments
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…

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iPhone Interest Quadruples For O2 UK, 30 Million Global Sales Forecast - 0 Comments
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…

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Carphone Warehouse Fails To Make Tiscali Shortlist - 0 Comments
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…

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Tiscali Gets Eight First-Round Bids; Carphone In The Mix - 0 Comments
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…

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Best Buy Pays $2.1 Billion For Half Of Britain’s Carphone Warehouse - 0 Comments
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…

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Broadband Content Fights: Virgin vs Publishers; BBC vs Sony/MS; BT vs Ofcom; Carphone vs BT - 0 Comments
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…

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Carphone Broadband Subs Grow; BSkyB Investment ‘To Pay Off’ In ‘09 - 0 Comments
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…

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Next-Gen Broadband: Nobody Wants To Pay For This Round - 2 Comments
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…

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Updated: iPhone First Weekend Sales: T-Mob Shifts 10,000, UK ‘Tens Of Thousands’ - 2 Comments
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.…

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Earnings: AOL Integration To Cost Carphone Warehouse Up To £22 Million - 0 Comments
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…

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O2 Predicts “Couple of Hundred Thousand” iPhone Sales In UK Over Holiday Season - 3 Comments
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…

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Carphone Expects To Sell 10,000 iPhones On UK Launch Day - 1 Comment
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…

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Carphone Warehouse Launches Monthly MVNO - 0 Comments
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…

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P2P TV Net Neutrality - Are We Heading For War? - 2 Comments
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…

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Best Buy Takes 3 Percent Stake in Carphone Warehouse - 0 Comments
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…

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Carphone Warehouse Re-Sells Virgin Broadband; Cuts Off Nose To Spite Face? - 0 Comments
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…

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BBC iPlayer Bandwidth Concerns - More Investment Needed, Regulator Says - 0 Comments
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.…

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Broadband ISPs Talking To BBC Over iPlayer Bandwidth Consumption Issues - 0 Comments
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…

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Web Ad Nets Scrutinized As Brands Bail From Dodgy Sites - 0 Comments
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…

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TradeDoubler Buys U.K. Search Marketing Agency IMW Group For $115 Million - 0 Comments
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…

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Omnifone Music Service To Go Retail In UK - 0 Comments
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…

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UK Roundup: Channel 4 Radio; ITV Local; BBC; Bebo; Call TV Fine - 0 Comments
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,…

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O2 Close To Clinching iPhone Deal in UK - 0 Comments
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…

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Carphone Warehouse To Offer Mobile Music Subscription - 0 Comments
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…

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Carphone Warehouse Concedes iPhone Exclusivity To Networks - 0 Comments
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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