Phones 4U Bans Staff From Email
News John Caudwell, CEO of high street mobile retailers Phones 4U, announced on Thursday that he'll be banning all his staff from using email across the business. The reasoning behind the total ban is apparently to improve productivity by reducing the...
[September 19, 2003, 9:45]
Hutchison 3G Denies Phones 4U Takeover Rumours
News Reports that third-generation mobile phone licence holder Hutchison 3G is planning a multi-million pound takeover of the Phones 4U chain were denied by the company on Monday. Phones 4U is currently owned by Caudwell Communications, 97 percent of...
[December 17, 2001, 12:44]
Phones 4U Bans Staff From Email
Talkback Sounds like a great idea to me especially when telephone tag is great fun and improves employee moral / efficiency. Unfortunately the CEO has not gone far enough. To maximize the savings I would ban telephones.
[September 23, 2003, 13:23]
Phones 4U Bans Staff From Email
Talkback If you think about it, banning email (and getting free media coverage as a result) is very self-serving of Mr. Caudwell… he runs a PHONE COMPANY. Email is the natural competitor to the telephone… he’s charging by the minute for his cellular service...
[September 23, 2003, 6:10]
Phones 4U Bans Staff From Email
Talkback Email is fast becoming one of the most waste-ful worktime activities. There is nothing that replaces speaking in person or at very least over the phone. Emotion and inflection allows for much better communication and cannot be replaced by the...
[September 23, 2003, 0:24]
Phones 4U Bans Staff From Email
Talkback This gentleman needs to take control of his office staff and set rules to minimize wasted time with personal emails and spam. However, to ban all email for the business is, in my opinion, foolish. Anyone who have used email with reasonable controls...
[September 23, 2003, 0:17]
Mobile Retailers In Domain Name Duel
News Mobile phone retail heavyweights Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U are involved in a spat over the ownership of a domain name. According to today's Daily Telegraph, Phones 4U made the discovery on Friday and will be consulting its lawyers this week.
[November 18, 2002, 16:18]
Sony Ericsson Ups The Ante For Mobile Gaming
News Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is aiming to make its latest mobile phones more viable as a gaming platform with a new deal that will see popular titles such as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer distributed through UK retail...
[May 13, 2003, 15:25]
Hutchison 3G Tipped To Buy Mobile Phone Group
News According to The Sunday Telegraph, the operator has been in talks to buy the Phones 4U chain -- a deal which could be worth £500m. Phones 4U is owned by Caudwell Communications. Hutchison 3G, the only holder of a UK third-generation licence not to...
[December 17, 2001, 11:39]
Orange To Review High-street Strategy
News The news comes the day after Vodafone announced it would no longer sell phone contracts through Carphone Warehouse but would instead deal exclusively with Phones 4u, prompting speculation that Vodafone now viewed the phone chain as a rival rather...
[October 13, 2006, 12:55]
Carphone Warehouse Hits Out At Rivals
News Vodafone announced on Thursday that it will stop offering its phones through Carphone Warehouse — which acquired AOL UK on Wednesday — instead opting for an exclusive arrangement with rival chain Phones 4u.
[October 12, 2006, 17:40]
BT Sets Wireless Cities Deadline
News The telco has also signed its first deal with a high-street retailer for its Fusion phones, which combine Wi-Fi and GSM on a single handset. BT will sell three such handsets — one each from Nokia, Samsung and Motorola — through several hundred...
[January 8, 2007, 14:33]
Hutchison Signs 3G Retail Deal
News Hutchison has already signed deals with Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U, as well as suppliers to independent stores. Selected Dixons outlets will also distribute the phones under the latest agreement.
[January 8, 2003, 10:11]
Carphone's Latest Pot-kettle Moment
Blog Remember how they laid into Vodafone and Phones 4U for their cosy arrangement? Remember that piece we did on Carphone Warehouse's extraordinary slanging match with, ooh, just about everyone roundabout the time it bought AOL UK?
[October 31, 2006, 14:17]
Foot-dragging Firms Slow Down E-Britain
News John Caudwell, chief executive of high street mobile retailers Phones 4U, recently banned all his staff from using email across the business -- a move he claimed would save them three hours a day. The UK's business sector is still failing to take...
[November 28, 2003, 11:55]
US Air Defenders Choose Blade PCs
News Phones remain the preferred mode of communication, but NORAD also uses a proprietary version of messaging that differs from the software - Incoming 4U - available commercially. The people who monitor the skies over North America for the first sign...
[April 18, 2005, 8:55]
