By John Oates for The Register.
This story has been reproduced with permission.
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."
Anyone with credit left in their account can expect a refund. Or
customers can transfer their phone to Fresh Mobile from Carphone
Warehouse.
The message says the company will do its best to move people or
to unlock their phones if they want to move to another provider
instead of Fresh.
TDC said it was changing strategy – easymobile in Germany
will be renamed callmobile and the UK business will close.
TDC's CEO Jesper Theill Eriksen said: "we are withdrawing from
the UK market, as the realised growth in the customer base does not
live up to TDC's original business plan expectations and as we do
not believe that easyMobile UK hasthe potential to develop into a
sizeable and profitable MVNO in the short term."
Late last week TDC bought out the remaining share of the German
business from TIH Invest – TDC now owns the whole firm.
The mobile virtual network operator has been in business for
almost two years. We've been contacted by several disappointed
customers.
Read the whole statement
here.
© The Register
2006
