12 Aug 2008
| by Alison Donnelly
LONDON - Customers are shunning high-street mobile deals in favour of competitive internet offers...spokeswoman. Many are also tying packages together with mid-range mobile phones, which have proved more ...
in the number of consumers changing mobile contracts over the phone. With few opportunities for networks ...
The shift comes as mobile operator Orange presses ahead with plans to expand its high ...
15 Feb 2006
Our reliance on mobile phones has escalated to the point that we are no longer able to live without...the traditional hard-sell that mobile phone stores have
been accused of in the past, and seeking instead to better highlight the
data and content services that mobile phones now offer. Vodafone, along with other operators ...
frequently. - Helen Dickinson is head of retail at KPMG 30 SECONDS ON ... MOBILE PHONE STORES - Orange ...
30 Jul 2010
| by Katherine Levy
of browsers accessing Waitrose.com through their mobile phones....The mobile website will feature pared-down content from the main company website, including ...
for the food retailer.
A spokeswoman for Waitrose said the mobile website had the "look and feel ...
be downloaded onto the iPad and the iPod Touch, and the mobile site, will provide a shopping list function ...
03 Nov 2004
| by Rachel Barnes
Woolworths is banking on mobile phones becoming one of its bestsellers this Christmas, having put...The retailer's recently launched mobile phone gift packs will feature in the second of three brand ads that highlight a range of present ideas, including confectionery and DVD players. The campaign ...
focus it is putting on the mobile phone category as a gift option.
Each gift pack includes an extra ...
29 Apr 2004
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
a secure service that will allow players to buy lottery tickets from their mobile phones....The talks are being held with Vodafone, Orange, O2, T-Mobile and 3 to allow people on all of those networks, as well as Virgin Mobile, Fresh, Tesco Mobile, Sainsbury's Mobile and OneTel customers to purchase tickets from draw-based games starting in autumn.
It has already embraced new media by selling ...
15 Oct 1998
| by ALEX BENADY
show off
the fact that in the convoluted world of mobile telephony, it is a
straight talking honest-broker....advertiser) in mobile phone retailing, it is a minnow up
against some very big fish.
Until now ...
start selling mobile phones this Christmas. As ever their
platform will be price.
Dunstone can ...
show off
the fact that in the convoluted world of mobile telephony, it is a
straight talking honest ...
28 May 1998
| by RAYMOND SNODDY
Vodafone Retail is pushing the idea that mobile phones can be a
fashion statement in its latest in...Vodafone Retail is pushing the idea that mobile phones can be a
fashion statement in its latest ...
of fashion-related prizes to purchasers of the new Nokia mobile
phone.
The 5110 is the latest fashion mobile phone handset which comes with
Xpress-on Covers available in a range of seven metallic ...
31 Jul 1997
| by DANNY ROGERS
Sainsbury s has become the first major retailer to sell mobile
phones in a deal with One-2-One....Sainsbury s has become the first major retailer to sell mobile
phones in a deal with One-2-One.
At the same time, the mobile phone company is launching a pay-in-advance
voucher scheme, under which users buy vouchers which will credit their
phone bills. Sainsbury s will sell the vouchers.
One-2 ...
12 Jan 2005
to recycle mobile phones for Oxfam....to deposit old phones. The charity is also seeking donations of used printer cartridges.
The Co-op estimates that there are 12m unwanted phones in the UK, with 15m new handsets bought every year. Each mobile ...
plans to back the phone campaign throughout the year.
As part of its ethical commitment, the Co ...
12 May 2010
| by Joe Thomas
phones and mobile devices, which it claims is the first mobile site from a major UK high street retailer....of thousands of customers are already shopping with us on their mobile phones and market data is telling us ...
search, browsing and to make purchases easily from any web-enabled mobile device. The site ...
baskets from their mobile. There will be no need for customers to download an app or any software ...