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Main office, in Acton, West London

The Carphone Warehouse is (as of 2004) Europe's largest mobile phone retailer, with over 1,300 stores across Europe. They are based in the United Kingdom.Outside the UK & Ireland, the retailer is named The Phone House. Image File history File links CWlogo. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1529 KB) Summary The Carphone Warehouses Support Centre, in Acton, West London. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1529 KB) Summary The Carphone Warehouses Support Centre, in Acton, West London. ... Acton is a place in the London Borough of Ealing. ... The Houses of Parliament and the clock tower containing Big Ben Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ...

The company was founded in 1989 by current CEO Charles Dunstone from £6,000 savings.

Mowbli, the little mobile phone, is Carphone Warehouse's mascot. He appears mainly in radio advertisements with his friend Ed (voiced by the Irish comedian Ed Byrne), and also on television advertisements. This article refers to the Irish comedian Ed Byrne, for details on the British actor, see Eddie Byrne. ...

In 2006, The Carphone Warhouse sponsored Celebrity Big Brother and related Celebrity Big Brother shows on Channel 4. 2006 (MMVI in Roman) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Big Brother may refer to: Big Brother (1984), a character from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four Authoritarianism, referred to as Big Brother, any omnipresent, seemingly benevolent figure representing the oppressive control over individual lives exerted by an authoritarian government, a concept from the above novel. ... Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ...

TalkTalk

Main article: TalkTalk

In 2003, The Carphone Warehouse launched a residential fixed line service called TalkTalk in several European countries, and have since expanded this to provide line rental and broadband internet access to their TalkTalk customers. They are also a Mobile Virtual Network Operator in several European countries. In the United Kingdom, they operate MVNOs under three brands: Fresh (aimed at traditional prepay customers), Mobile World (aimed at expatriates, and providing cheap rates to international destinations), and TalkTalk (aimed at fixed line customers of the same brand, and offering cheap or free calls between fixed and mobile lines operated by the company). TalkTalk is the home telecommunications branch of the mobile phone retailer The Carphone Warehouse. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... TalkTalk is the home telecommunications branch of the mobile phone retailer The Carphone Warehouse. ... A Mobile Virtual Network Operator is a company that does not own a licensed frequency spectrum, but resells wireless services under their own brand name, using the network of another mobile phone operator. ...

In December 2005 TalkTalk purchased competitors One.Tel and Tele2, increasing the previous number of fixed-line connections from 920,000 customers to 2.4 million customers (and also adding smaller numbers of mobile and broadband customers), thus becoming the number 1 competitor to BT with 10% of all fixed lines in the UK. One. ... Tele2 is Europes biggest alternative telecommunications operator with over 28 million customers in 24 countries. ...

In the same year TalkTalk broadband became the the 8th largest supplier of ADSL on a BT line. The Carphone Warehouse have reported sales growth of 28% from 2003-04 financial year.

External links

• Official site

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