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We're taking action against some of the telecom companies, Talk Talk and
Carphone Warehouse. We're taking action against them because we've had a lot of complaints that they've been telephoning people with marketing calls, people whose name is on the telephone preference service. And then we do these
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January 2018, the company was fined £400,000 by the ICO for "multiple inadequacies" in Carphone's security processes, including using old software and failing to carry out routine security testing. Intruders were able to access personal information, including the names, addresses, phone numbers,
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On 21 April 2021, the company announced that the entire business in
Ireland, including all 69 standalone stores in Ireland, 12 outlets within other stores, and the carphonewarehouse.ie website would close with immediate effect, with the loss of 486 jobs. The company stated the closures were in line
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Dixons
Carphone has closed all its Carphone Warehouse shops in the Republic of Ireland with immediate effect. It had 69 standalone Carphone Warehouses in the country and 12 in-store branches employing more than 450 people. It has also stopped taking orders on its Irish website. The move will not
211:. In April 2021, the Carphone Warehouse business in Ireland (including all stand-alone and co-located branches and the website) was closed with immediate effect. Currys continued to use the Carphone Warehouse brand in the United Kingdom, online and, until 2021, inside Currys stores.
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Warehouse announced that it had suspended its sponsorship of the show as Channel 4 had not taken sufficient action in response to the alleged racism in the show. On 8 March 2007, the company permanently dropped its sponsorship of the show.
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Channel 4. The sponsorship is constantly under review. Clearly we are against racism. Most people understand that the person who has their name associated with the programme does not necessarily condone the content."
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became CEO of TalkTalk, and Roger Taylor CEO of New
Carphone Warehouse. Dunstone remained Chairman of both companies. On 30 April 2013, Carphone Warehouse agreed to purchase Best Buy's 50% stake in Best Buy Europe for £500
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On 5 August 2015, hackers gained access to customer data for 2.4 million people who had used sites operated by
Carphone Warehouse, including OneStopPhoneShop.com, e2save.com, Mobiles.co.uk and TalkTalk Group.
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In 2003, Ross started to step down from the COO role. In July 2005, he became deputy chairman. On 10 October 2006, the
Carphone Warehouse announced that it would purchase the Internet access business of
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1326:"Carphone Warehouse reveals pricing plans for iD mobile network"
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816:"Carphone Warehouse founder quits while he's (£140m) ahead"
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1159:"Carphone Warehouse to buy Best Buy's stake in CPW Europe"
1770:"Carphone Warehouse fined £400,000 over 2015 data breach"
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1273:"Dixons and Carphone Warehouse shares drop on merger"
875:. 10 Downing Street. 17 February 2006. Archived from
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Excellence Award for Corporate Partnership in 2006.
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1850:. Ireland on-line. 17 January 2007. Archived from
1716:Miles, Alice; Rumbelow, Helen (28 October 2006).
1404:"Carphone Warehouse closes all stores in Ireland"
847:"Founder exits 'back seat' at Carphone Warehouse"
415:for €325 million. French competition regulators,
21:Dixons Carphone § United Kingdom and Ireland
2408:Telecommunications companies established in 1989
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1718:"Full text of the interview with Richard Thomas"
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1377:(Press release). 17 March 2020. Archived from
787:"Carphone Warehouse and the art of innovation"
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1520:Sean Buckley. Fierce Telecom. 1 February 2010
1248:"Carphone Warehouse completes TalkTalk split"
2388:Mobile phone companies of the United Kingdom
1015:"Carphone's BT challenge with £65m Opal buy"
702:"Carphone store closures to cost 2,900 jobs"
586:Corporate Partnership Award in 2003 and the
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1605:Aittokallio, Auri (28 November 2014).
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1299:"Dixons and Carphone Merge Offices"
1133:"Carphone in £1.1bn US partnership"
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1659:"Preliminary Enforcement Notices"
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1066:. 11 October 2006. Archived from
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432:Information Commissioner's Office
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1875:"Big Brother complaints explode"
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67:and Julian Brownlie
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1021:. 7 November 2002.
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