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Carphone Warehouse freebie broadband stumbles
News Carphone Warehouse’s much-hyped offer of free broadband for its Talk Talk customers seems to be stumbling under the weight of its own success. A spokesperson for Carphone Warehouse confirmed to ZDNet UK that current sign-ups will have to wait at...
[June 5, 2006, 17:20]
Carphone Warehouse to boost broadband business
News Mobile-phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is to sell 50 percent of its retail business to US retail giant Best Buy for £1.1bn, and plans to use the cash to grow its broadband business. Carphone Warehouse, which operates the broadband brand TalkTalk...
[May 12, 2008, 9:28]
Carphone Warehouse to split in two
News Carphone Warehouse is to split into two separate companies, decoupling the retail and broadband operations. In its preliminary annual results, Carphone Warehouse said the demerger would be completed by July 2010 at the latest.
[June 5, 2009, 13:11]
Carphone Warehouse in 'serious' data breach
News Carphone Warehouse has been warned it could face prosecution for exposing the personal details of thousands of customers online and, in some cases, inadvertently setting debt collectors on them. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the...
[January 17, 2008, 11:02]
Carphone Warehouse to resell 3G service
Talkback Well that should fall in line with my experience of CarPhone warehouse. I purchased two Motorola phones over Xmas from their Milton Keynes branch. Both phones were camera ready. They sold me two Virgin Mobile accounts to go with the phones.
[January 19, 2004, 9:16]
Carphone Warehouse unbowed by 'free broadband' ruling
News Carphone Warehouse will be allowed to continue to advertise its broadband service as "free", despite a ruling against its advertisements by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). Last week, the firm's chief executive, Charles Dunstone, wrote on...
[July 19, 2006, 12:30]
Carphone's latest pot-kettle moment
Blog Remember that piece we did on Carphone Warehouse's extraordinary slanging match with, ooh, just about everyone roundabout the time it bought AOL UK? Remember how they laid into Vodafone and Phones 4U for their cosy arrangement?
[October 31, 2006, 14:17]
Carphone Warehouse to shake up broadband market?
Talkback Found this online interview which also analyses the challenges for Carphone Warehouse and predictions for the future broadband market.http://w3.cantos.com/cantos/dyn/org.php? So, a possible broadband price war is on the cards?
[April 24, 2006, 10:26]
Carphone Warehouse 'cleared' over free broadband claim
News Carphone Warehouse will be cleared by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over its promotion of "free" broadband, the company's chief executive claimed on his blog on Thursday. According to Charles Dunstone's blog, Carphone Warehouse is...
[July 14, 2006, 12:45]
Carphone Warehouse's laptop treasure hunt
News The decision in July by Carphone Warehouse to offer a laptop as an incentive to sign up to AOL's broadband service surprised a lot of people, but this week the mobile retailer has gone a step further and decided to give away 200 laptops as part of...
[September 5, 2007, 17:07]
Carphone Warehouse buys Tiscali for £236m
News Carphone Warehouse has agreed to buy Tiscali's UK broadband business for £236m, a move that will make it the largest domestic broadband provider in the UK. Tiscali's service will be integrated with Carphone Warehouse's residential broadband...
[May 8, 2009, 12:38]
Carphone Warehouse rapped over 'two-tier pricing'
News Price-comparison website uSwitch.com has criticised Carphone Warehouse for charging some of its customers £10 per month more for their broadband if they are not connected to an unbundled exchange. The charge applies to those customers whom Carphone...
[May 29, 2007, 12:22]
Carphone Warehouse hits out at rivals
News Carphone Warehouse responded to its plummeting share price on Thursday by engaging in an extraordinary war of words with Vodafone and its new high-street retail partner. Vodafone announced on Thursday that it will stop offering its phones through...
[October 12, 2006, 17:40]
Carphone Warehouse buys AOL UK
News Carphone Warehouse has bought AOL UK for £370m, following a protracted and secretive bidding war. Carphone Warehouse became involved in June, when reports suggested chief executive Charles Dunstone wanted AOL UK's expertise in unbundling — the ISP...
[October 11, 2006, 11:30]
Carphone Warehouse takes wraps off 'free' broadband
Talkback Sorry carphone I can do better. Free broadband? Great I think. I put in my phone number. Sorry you cannot get free broad band. But suprise suprise I can get paid broadband from talk talk with talk 3 all together £30.99.
[June 13, 2006, 2:59]
Carphone emails fuel iPhone scandal
Blog Comment Once again in the true cowboy spirit, carphone wharehouse show there true colours.i had lifeline on a handset which broke 31 days after it was purchased i was asked to pay the excess to have it REPAIRED even though it was 31 days old and a...
[December 17, 2007, 10:23]
Carphone Warehouse takes wraps off 'free' broadband
News Carphone Warehouse has put an end to speculation on its free broadband product by revealing what it calls "free broadband forever". For £9.99 a month and an additional £11 line rental, Carphone customers will get free local and national calls...
[April 11, 2006, 18:10]
Carphone gets EU green light for Tiscali buy
News Carphone Warehouse's £236m purchase of Tiscali UK has been given the go-ahead by the European Commission. The deal will make TalkTalk, Carphone Warehouse's broadband-provision business, the UK's largest ISP, with around 4.25 million residential...
[June 30, 2009, 12:54]
Carphone Warehouse 'eying broadband unbundling'
News Reports on Monday claimed that Carphone Warehouse is planning to invest millions of pounds in installing its own equipment in BT's local exchanges - a process known as local-loop unbundling (LLU). At present, Carphone Warehouse resells BT's...
[October 31, 2005, 17:05]
Carphone Warehouse and Centrica tipped for One.Tel takeover
News With the future of troubled Australian telco One.Tel still unclear, it appears that its profitable UK operations will be bought by either Carphone Warehouse or Centrica. According to sources within One.Tel, it will come down to a straight fight...
[June 27, 2001, 16:00]
