Carphone warehouse to offer broadband packages from Nov 1st

KNO3

Just heard on the radio this morning that the Carphone warehouse Ireland are to start offering broadband packages from Nov 1st 2006.

Should be interesting what they offer, their website is down at the moment so no info there, in the UK the carphone warhouse has been transforming itself into a telecoms company with the mobile division being pushed into second place as a retail arm. Last week Carphone warehouse UK took over AOL UK in a deal that will now see it as the 3rd biggest broadband (ISP) provider in the UK. Now presumably this is why Eircon have been advertising there reduced broadband costs to consumers in the last couple of weeks on the TV and radio knowing that some meaningful competition is on the horizon in the form of Carphone warehouse. When they introduced broadband in the UK earlier this year they offered it for FREE.........but the catch was you had to sign up for a complete telecom package, but apperantly it was still a fantastic deal and they had unprecedented take up by consumers. They wont offer the same deal here presumably as they dont have a telecoms arm to offer any other services in Ireland.

Anybody else know anything else about this?

Heres a couple of links relating to Carphone warehouse UK from the last 6 months. The first one is the free deal they offered and the second one is the take over of AOL UK last week.

http://www.cbronline.com/article_feature.asp?guid=A485B6B4-246B-4A86-BC52-1C13EB1FFC90

http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=FDFD959E-D975-48B1-B64C-C596542DBB6A&z=rc_Networking