Posted on February 1, 2011Tags: 2e2, O2, Orange, Peter Boucher, Pocket Landline, Vodafone

Parallel distribution channels have “no god-given right” to sell mobile-centric unified communications, says Vodafone
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Posted on January 31, 2011Tags: 20:20 Mobile, 20:20 Mobile Ireland, Barry Napier, BPI, Don Maher, Fergus deBurca, Fergus Sweeney, James Blackman, Meteor, O2, Radius, Singma, Vodafone, Vodafone Ireland

20:20 Mobile's shared ownership with Vodafone Ireland of 20:20 Mobile Ireland looked like a licence to print money. Why then was it so eager to sell?
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Posted on January 18, 2011Tags: 20:20 Mobile, Activ Telecom, Alternative Networks, AMC, Amirul Choudhry, Andrew Boden, Andrew Dawson, Android, Andy Tow, ANOVO, Anthony Catterson, Anurag Gupta, Apple, Avenir, Azzurri, Barry Moore, Ben Wood, BlackBerry, Bluechipworld, bob sweetlove, Brightpoint, Brightstar, BT, BuyMobilePhones.net, Carphone Warehouse, CCS, Chris Earle, Chris Jones, Chris Stanton, Christian Nellemann, Chytelk, Clive Bayley, Comm Sense, Craig Wellman, Crispin Thomas, Crystal Ball, Daisy, Damian Cole, Dave McGinn, David Hilton, Desi Mobo, EBS, Elite Mobile, Everything Everywhere, Excalibur, Expansys, Focus 4U, Fonehouse, Frank Masson, Frequency, Gareth Limpenny, Geraldine Wilson, Gerry, Get Connected, GK Telecom, Google, Gurminder Dulku, Guy Laurence, Hartwood, HSC, HTC, Huawei, Ian Gillespie, Ian Robinson, Ian Watson, iPhone, James Browning, James Murray, James Phipps, Jason Yeomans, Jim Michel, John Doughty, Jon French, Jonathan Brasnett, Jonathan Kini, Keane Beaken, Ketan Gokani, Kevin McHugh, Kondor, lg, Lycamobile, Mainline, Marcelo Claure, Marcus Richardson, Mark Burland, Matt Sandford, Matt Stringer, Michael Richardson, Micro-P, Mike Hallam, Mike Ridgwat, Milind Kangle, Mobix, MoCo, Motorola, Nigel Field, O2, OneStream, Orange, Outsourcery, Pama, Paul Leonard, Paul Sisson, Peter Kelly, Phil Rider, Philip Johnston, Phones 4U, Piers Linney, Premier Mobile, Pure Mobile, Purecom, Qualitel, Raj Singh, Richard Harris, RIM, Rob Haycock, Rod Millar, Russell Braterman, S3i, Sacha Visram, Samsung, Simon Hassell, Simon Stanford, sony ericsson, Sprint Comms, Stephen Bates, Stephen Maxwell, Sunrise, T-Mobile, Three, Tim Sefton, Tim Whiting, Timico, TMTI, Tom Alexander, Tom Satchwell, Trefor Davies, Unicom, URL, Virgin Media, Vodafone, Voice Mobile, Welcomm, Wish Communications, Wu Sa, XLN, ZTE

Mobile News polled 73 industry leaders for their views on the year ahead. The result is a sector fighting to renew itself, putting its entire focus on smartphones and data to arrest a decline in traditional revenues
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Posted on January 18, 2011Tags: Brightpoint, Brightstar, Carphone Warehouse, HTC, James Blackman, Jon French, lg, Mark Mitchinson, Nokia, Shebang, Tanny Price, Vodafone

Carphone Warehouse appears set on a major move in box-shifting distribution in Europe. What are its chances? And what do recent industry appointments and business strategies tell us about the power play unfolding within the market?
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Posted on January 18, 2011Tags: 20:20 Mobile, bob sweetlove, Brightstar, Carphone Warehouse, Data Select, George Dymond, Graham Stapleton, HSC, John Durkan, Mark Mitchinson, Nokia, Samsung, Steve Fraser, Stuart Henry

Mark Mitchinson has returned to UK mobile in a trading role at Carphoner. James Blackman and Michael Garwood gauge the industry’s puzzlement at his route back, and what precisely Carphone is plotting next
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Posted on January 5, 2011Tags: Daisy, Dave McGinn

Daisy Distribution managing director Dave McGinn on the year ahead for airtime distribution and unified communications
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Posted on December 2, 2010Tags: Brightpoint, Robert Laikin

Brightpoint chairman Robert Laikin’s claim the present industry dynamic is unlike at any other time in the past two decades is the clearest message yet of the crisis of supply
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Posted on November 18, 2010Tags: Alastair Mills, Anglia, Daisy, Fone Logistics, Matthew Riley, O2, Redstone, SpiriTel

Daisy Group’s biggest purchase to date sees absorption of major accounts and 40,000 O2 lines
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Posted on November 18, 2010Tags: Alastair Mills, Daisy, Matthew Riley, SpiriTel

Protagonists in the £27 million sale of service provider SpiriTel to Daisy Group reckon chief executive Alastair Mills job on the business will be a model for market consolidation through 2011
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Posted on October 26, 2010Tags: European Telecom, HMRC

HMRC expected to contest multimillion pound European Telecom VAT tribunal decision
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