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Carphone Warehouse is a mobile phone retailer based in London, United Kingdom. In August 2014 the company became a subsidiary of Currys plc (previously named "Dixons Carphone"), which was formed by the merger of its former parent Carphone Warehouse Group with Dixons Retail .
David Peter John Ross (born 10 July 1965) is an English millionaire businessman, and one of the co-founders (with Charles Dunstone and Guy Johnson) of Carphone Warehouse.At the peak of his business interests in 2008, Ross was one of the 100 richest people in the United Kingdom. [1]
iD offers pay-monthly contracts for 24 months with a handset, or 1, 12 and 24 month SIM-only contracts. All services use the 3G, 4G or 5G signal from the Three network. . These can be bought online via the iD Mobile website, via iD Mobile telephone sales or in a Currys or Carphone Warehouse
This number increased to over one hundred. However, following a merger between Dixons and rival phone shop, Carphone Warehouse, it was announced that this partnership would not be renewed. [citation needed] A branch of Phones 4u on Briggate in Leeds. The group was acquired by private equity group BC Partners in March 2011.
In May 2014, Dixons announced a merger, that soon came to pass, with Carphone Warehouse; the combined company would have market capitalisation of around £3.8 billion. [21] Dixons thus became a wholly owned subsidiary of Dixons Carphone Holdings Limited, and was renamed to Dixons Retail Group plc. [22]
Carphone Warehouse agreed to purchase the UK subsidiary of Tiscali in May 2009 for £236 million. [17] The purchase was approved by the European Union Competition Commission in June 2009, [18] and the sale was completed on 6 July 2009. [19] Carphone Warehouse confirmed the business would merge into TalkTalk ahead of the planned demerger. [20]
Guy Johnson is an English businessman, the former third business partner in Carphone Warehouse. [1] He is estimated to have a fortune of £156 million, ranking him 546 in the Sunday Times Rich List of 2008. [2] After the business was founded by Charles Dunstone with £6,000 savings, he asked Johnson to join him as the second partner.
In an early press statement, The Carphone Warehouse stated they had "no plans to change the service in any way at all," but, since January, all those who used P2P applications heavily had their downstream bandwidth limited to 50 kbit/s during peak times (18:00–24:00, Sunday to Thursday). [15]