Easy Mobiles

At last it happened - he is out!
Can’t say I am surprised - the long awaited departure is of no surprise to anyone. Undoubtedly it’s been a remarkable period in history primarily for its cynicism, lies and deception. Don’t get me wrong on this as I am not a Conservative supporter (A plague o’ both your houses! as far as I am concerned, and actually to be precise on all three of them). The problem with New Labour is the width of the gap between the moral stand they take and the course of actions they follow. If their opposites the Conservatives almost openly declare essentially corrupt policies they can follow these policies with relative ease whilst Labour had to live with an enormous discrepancy between their electoral promises and their political deeds. And inasmuch as they can’t match these two sides they can’t match their accounts too. This ultimately lead them to an almost proverbial cash for honours scandal. Remarkably, some trying to make sense of this debacle suggest that it was more acceptable and even reasonable to raise cash selling lordships than borrowing from the Unions. This seems to be completely off the target I am afraid. You can’t raise any cash for yourself selling something that does not belong to you. Listen to the sound of it: cash for honours! When honour is on sale there isn’t much left to keep a falling politician afloat.

So there goes one and I can almost hear the sigh of relief over the country. But should we expect the new one to be any better? Did Gordon Brown know about these shady dealings of his party? Bad for him if he did and equally bad if he didn’t. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer and an almost eternal Prime-Minister-in-waiting did not know about his comrades lead by his friend Tony selling the honour of the country behind his back he is simply incompetent. As I don’t believe our prudent chancellor to be stupid or completely blind I have all reasons to think he’ll just follow the steps of his predecessor. And where this path leads we all know too well. There will be another Stelios honoured as Easy Sir and if you allow me another prediction I expect another lengthy and costly litigation similar to the Orange one but over the colour Brown this time.

tags: orange, blair, brown, easy sir, gordon, gordon brown, new labour, stelios, tony, tony blair, cash for honours, easymobile

Source Pocket-lint
Danish telecom backer decides its not profitable enough
by Amber Maitland

14 November 2006 - After 2 years of operation, easyMobile, part of the same group as easyJet, is closing its doors.

The mobile service providers are stopping service on 13 December because TDC, a Danish telecom company, has withdrawn from the UK market, thereby forcing easyGroup to shut easyMobile down.
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tags: easymobile closing down

Source easyMobile
Dear Customer,

First let us start by thanking you for your custom and loyalty to easyMobile.com over the last couple of years.

As you may recall, easyMobile.com in the UK was set up as a partnership between TDC (the telecom company from Denmark) and easyGroup (Stelios’ investment vehicle). Due to a change of strategy at TDC, TDC have decided to withdraw from the UK market. Consequently you will not be able to use your easyMobile.com service in the UK from midnight (24:00) on 13th December 2006. Read the rest of this entry »

tags: closing down, easymobile

Source BBC

No-frills, pay-as-you-go mobile phone service Easymobile is to close down its service next month.
The company, part of Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s Easygroup, made the announcement to its 80,000 registered customers by text message.
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tags: bbc, closing down, easymobile

Users to make a Fresh start
Source The Inquirer
By Tony Dennis: Tuesday 14 November 2006, 13:55

JUDGING FROM emails sent out to existing UK customers, EasyMobile is closing down and recommending its customers migrate to Carphone Warehouse’s Fresh service.
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tags: fresh, closing down, easymobile

Source Investment and Business News
It was a good and a day bad for Sir Stelios.
14/11/2006

The bad day, because his EasyMobile phone company had news to shake even the famous optimism of Stelios Haji-Ioannou.

Danish Telecoms Company, TDC, has given up on the EasyMobile service. Read the rest of this entry »

tags: easyjet, easymobile, stelios

Source The Register
Titsup for Stelios moby venture
By John Oates
Published Monday 13th November 2006 17:36 GMT

Easymobile - the mobile wing of Stelios Haji Ioannou’s easyGroup - is closing. Customers have until midnight on 13 December to move their phone service.

A message on the website says:”easyMobile.com in the UK was set up as a partnership between TDC (the telecom company from Denmark) and easyGroup (Stelios’ investment vehicle). Due to a change of strategy at TDC, TDC have decided to withdraw from the UK market.” Read the rest of this entry »

tags: carphone warehouse,, carphonewarehouse, fresh mobile,, stelios,, tdc,, easygroup,, easymobile,, easymobile.com,

EasyMobile is dead! It’s finished, it’s over!
Whilst busily doing my usual job and having a lot of it lately I couldn’t think less of easyMobile and easyGroup stuff, especially since they somehow seased bothering me personally in recent times. And to my infinite surprise they just collapsed on their own. I can’t say I’m pleased. In fact I am not - I just don’t care, but this whole thing is in fact a good lesson for those who wish to follow the path of the noble EasySir.
In all my sincerity I can’t comprehend how someone endowed with such a magnitude of business experience, not to say about his other virtues, could produce such a spectacular firework of mistakes inevitably leading to a rapid falure.
What was he thinking about? Working in a bottom-low market where the only way to undercut the competition (Sir Richard for example) is by lowering price and increasing volume at the expense of quality one should expect an ever increasing number of ex-customers eternally dissatisfied with the quality of the service offered.
To balance this Sir Stelios from time to time produced a revolutionary rethoric of a holly easyCrusade against corporate fat-cats who by means of conspiracy inflated all prices. Admittedly sometimes it worked. An easyRebel was able to salvage some remains of customer loyalty this way.
Unfortunately, for this to work words are not enough, at least sometimes they should correspond to appropriate deeds. And now the best part - easyGangster in action. How on earth he could think that attacking small businesses that happen to have the word easy in their name was a clever move? Was he trying to create an image of a protector of the poor this way or was just satisfying his inferiority complex? In any case in his position it can only be Plain Stupid!
Working in this market you can only succeed if you are friendly to your potential customer - you can not rule them, even less you can humiliate or attack them.
I am not pleased, it’s only logical after all that easyMobile story resulted in easyDeath final.
P.S.

An EasyDeath brand could be exploited rather nicely for some offshore execution chambers somwhere in Holland or Switzerland (a business commonly known as euthanasia). Add it to your potofolio Stelios.

tags: easysir, stelios, easymobile closing down

Source Telegraph
EasyMobile’s 80,000 customers will lose their service after the company’s Danish partner decided to pull out of the UK market.

Entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s pre-pay phone network will cease to operate at midnight on December 13, the company said.
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Source Silicon.com

Mobile operator shuts up shop and looks for new suitor
By Jo Best
Published: Tuesday 14 November 2006

EasyMobile, the no-frills MVNO, has shut up shop after some 18 months in business.

Customers of the operator were informed by email that easyMobile will be shutting its doors next month, with customers no longer able to use their phones from midnight on 13 December.
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tags: carphone, easymobile, fresh,, warehouse,

Source ITPro
Posted by Maggie Holland at 6:30PM, Monday 13th November 2006
easyMobile is forced to close in the UK due to a spat with TDC, but Stelios is already working on a new service to fill the gap
easyGroup, the company behind a myriad of budget services, has been forced to bin its no-frills mobile offering, easyMobile, due to contractual issues with Danish brand licensee TDC. Read the rest of this entry »

tags: uk, easymobile closing down

Source The Register
Sir Stelios packs his clogs
By Chris Williams
Published Thursday 6th July 2006 14:25 GMT

EasyTycoon Stelios Haji-Ioannou has cut and run from his Netherlands EasyMobile virtual network operation. Customers were notified by no-frills email this morning they have until 1 August to find a new provider. Read the rest of this entry »

tags: easymobile, netherlands, stelios