Re: RE: (ukha_d) Mobile Phones (maybe OT)

[Matthew Keay <m@xxxxxxx>]

Phones4u is a totally seperate company which sell all four networks.
They
also have a lot of market share and good relationships w/ providers
(based
on size).

Dialaphone are totally seperate and afaik they dont use singlepoint
anymore.

I cant really see Vodafone becoming a "single airtime provider"
since
afaik (this is just from what i've heard) Singlepoint have around 40%
of
the vodafone contract market.

Singlepoint actually do corporate customers too thru various channels,
including part of the Caudwell Group "4u ltd".

I cant really see how a singlepoint customer cant use gprs while a voda
customer cant, unless this is a restriction on the vodafone network
either
by singlepoint -or- vodafone for whatever business reason. (Singlepoint
dont have any equipment to upgrade to gprs, it's all vodafones
network).

Hope that helps..

Matthew (somewhat biased, probably wrong, and speaking of his own
opinion).

On Wed, 29 May 2002 peter.white@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Do they have this vision?  Vodafone is certainly the comms
provider, but in
> terms of Service Providers they have well over 40 of these, of which
Singlepoint
> is by far the largest (under about 4 different brands, including
Phones4U &
> Dialaphone).
>
> Knowing Vodafone, and the volume of complaints they get, I don't
suppose they'll
> do much about it, as Singlepoint do specialise in mainstream,
vanilla,
> consumers, as opposed to 'business' contracts.  No excuse for
mis-selling
> though.
>
> Pete
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 29 May 2002 16:42
> To: White, Peter; ukha_d@xxxxxxx at Internet
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Mobile Phones (maybe OT)
>
>
>
> On Wed, 29 May 2002, Andy Laurence wrote:
> > No, it's not a Vodafone problem, it's a mixture of Singlepoint
and
> phones4u.  > Vodafone have always been good to me in the 4-5
years or so I've
> been with > them.
>
> That's why I was thinking they might be able to help you out on
this
> occasion, i.e. transfer your SP for you before the contract term
and/or
> encourage Singlepoint to implement GPRS. Wouldn't this be in line
with
> Vodafone's vision of one brand, one company? i.e. phase out the SP
> concept?
>
> Maccy
>
>
>
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