Thursday, January 18, 2007

Vodafone Mobile Phones and Carphone Warehouse

Vodafone mobile phones are no longer being sold through any of Carphone Warehouse's sales channels.

You could view this as a spat between little boys in the playground, along the lines of "I'm not playing with you any more" ... and you wouldn't be too far wrong.

The difference being that Carphone are not little boys anymore. Vodafone and Carphone had a falling out, supposedly over commission payments and the amount being paid to Carphone, and they could not agree.

So Carphone simply said "We will no longer sell Vodafone mobile phones!"

And so, you will currently not find and Vodafone phones throughout any of the Carphone resellers network. It will be interesting to see how long it lasts, because sure enough it will not last forever, and soon enough, one side will come back to the table saying "Enough is enough - lets start working together again", but it will be almost a matter of pride as to who that party will be. Most likely it will be Vodafone, because Carphone have a huge market share.

Here's to watching the Vodafone mobile phones and Carphone battle ...

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