Easy Mobiles

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The mobile service providers are stopping service on 13 December because TDC, a Danish telecom company, has withdrawn from the UK market, thereby forcing easyGroup to shut easyMobile down.
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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. (more…)

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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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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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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. (more…)

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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.” (more…)

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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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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. (more…)

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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. (more…)

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Via LGR
Evening Standard
18 July 2006
EASYDEATH, a scheme that could have seen a boom in orange coffins, has been quietly buried by easyJet mogul Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou.
The tycoon said the cheap funerals concept had reached the planning stage before it was quietly dropped.
He added that the idea was worked on after he was presented with a serious business plan by an independent entrepreneur.
With easyInternet cafes and easyHotels hardly booming, Sir Stelios, 39, added: ‘The future of the Easy Group belongs to the franchising principle.’
Although he has only two easyHotels presently operating - London and Basel - he is in talks with a Dubai investor who wants to build 38 more in the Middle East.
He admitted that windowless cabins aboard the easyCruise ships were ‘a mistake’ and that ‘trial and error’ play a part in his company.
He added in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel: ‘In five years, I would like to have some 20 to 25 firms. Around a third will run well, a third will be OK, the last third will need me as a fireman. It is exciting. And I can at least say that I was the first to think of an orange cruise ship with windowless cabins. Perhaps I will also be the last.’

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Source The Register
Easy peasy IP squeezy
By Drew Cullen
Published Monday 17th July 2006 13:11 GMT

easyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou shows few signs of abandoning his megalomaniacal campaign to own all things prefixed “easy”.

In the FT last Wednesday, the hyperactive entrepreneur advertised for a managing director to run easyGroup IP (eGIP), his private company. The successful candidate will own and manage the easy brand through licensing and royalty agreements.

The other main role of eGIP is to “protect the ‘easy’ brand by companies who aim to mislead the public by inferring [sic] that they are members of easyGroup”.

This suggests that Stelios’s campaign to wrest domain names with “easy” in them will continue at full pelt.
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