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July 2, 2009

Carphone Warehouse given OK for Tiscali takeover

The Carphone Warehouse has been given the go ahead to complete it’s buy out of the UK arm of Tiscali by EU authorities.

The takeover is worth £236 million which is greatly needed by Tiscali who have a huge mountain of debt that they need to pay back.
With this acquisition it will take The Carphone Warehouses total broadband customer base to around 4.25 million making it the largest UK residential broadband provider alongside it’s other broadband entities such as TalkTalk Broadband and AOL Broadband.

The European Commission who looked into the takeover concluded that it would not damage competition in the UK, and with other big broadband providers such as BT and Virgin Media there is enough big competition in the UK.

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- Filed under: Home Broadband,News
- Tags: The Carphone Warehouse, Tiscali
Author: Ruth @ 11:29 am

June 8, 2009

Carphone Warehouse make £550m profit

The Carphone Warehouse has released it’s latest set of yearly results up to the end of March 2009 which show profits up to £550m which is a huge increase over the previous years of £73m.

carphone warehouse Carphone Warehouse make £550m profitThe interesting points in the report are that the recent purchase of Tiscali UK Broadband will see the Carphone Warehouse (TalkTalk) broadband customer base rise to 4.25 million making it the largest residential broadband provider in the UK although BT are still the largest overall broadband provider with around 4.8 million subscribers. With this acquisition it is believed that once Tiscali UK is running in synergy with the TalkTalk group that there could be operational savings of between £40-£50 million per year by March 2011 due to areas such as customer migration, network integration and simplification, and billing integration.

Of the 2.8 million broadband subscriber with TalkTalk, 78% of these are on their own unbundled network and with Tiscali also operating with LLU for many of their customers it will also bring in some cost saving and more control.

The full Carphone Warehouse report can be read here.

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- Filed under: News
- Tags: Financial, TalkTalk, The Carphone Warehouse
Author: Mark @ 2:06 pm

June 5, 2009

Carphone Warehouse to split telephone and broadband business

The Carphone Warehouse is to split it’s TalkTalk fixed line and broadband businesses into their own separate businesses by July 2010.

The move is to happen as Charles Dunstone,  Chief Executive of Carphone Warehouse thinks that it will make it easier for shareholders to see the value of each of the businesses.
Mr Dunstone said:

“Both have reached the point where there are no material synergies between them. They need to operate independently”

The company posted a pre-tax loss of £72 million with revenue falling to £1.385bn from £1.424bn the previous year.

The Carphone Warehouse has recently bought the UK broadband arm of Tiscali broadband for £236m which has boosted their broadband subscribers by an extra 1.7 million and giving them 25% of the UK broadband market with a total subscriber base of 4.25 million.

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- Filed under: News
- Tags: TalkTalk, The Carphone Warehouse
Author: Rob @ 11:06 am


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