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Phil Pavitt
CIO Profile In 1998 he headed up NTL's internet TV launch, becoming CIO for the company in 2003 and in 2005 he moved to Onetel, part of the Centrica group, also as CIO. Phil Pavitt has been appointed the next CIO of HM Revenue and... [03 Jun 2009]
Phil Pavitt
CIO Profile In 1998 he headed up NTL's internet TV launch, becoming CIO for the company in 2003 and in 2005 he moved to Onetel, part of the Centrica group, also as CIO. In his first move into the public sector Phil Pavitt was... [11 Jun 2008]
Centrica takes £196m hit on IT systems
News The write-down relates to software that Centrica used for cross-selling when it owned the AA and OneTel. Centrica sold the AA to a private equity group in 2004 and sold OneTel to The Carphone Warehouse... [22 Feb 2007]
Carphone Warehouse picks up Onetel for £132m
News The mobile phone retailer is buying Onetel, the phone business of British Gas-owner Centrica, for £132m in cash. Carphone Warehouse said in a statement: "The acquisition of Onetel propels us clearly... [19 Dec 2005]
BSkyB confirms £211m offer for Easynet
News With homes and not businesses likely to be BSkyB's focus, Easynet's LLUStream - used by companies including Onetel - could fall by the wayside. BSkyB has confirmed this morning that it has made a cash offer of 175p per... [21 Oct 2005]
BT slashes VoIP prices to keep customers
News Soon-to-be-sold Onetel has launched Just Dial, with a £1.99 monthly subscription for free evening and weekend calls or £4.99 for free calls any time. Onetel will also be selling adapters for phone-fond... [28 Sep 2005]
Onetel bitten by watchdog over mobile tariff claim
News Onetel, the soon-to-be-sold phone arm of Centrica, has been told off by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for claiming its mobile phone tariff is the cheapest on the market. The ad watchdog received a complaint... [21 Sep 2005]
Carphone Warehouse to join £350m Onetel bid war
News Carphone Warehouse is to be among the bidders for Centrica's phone unit, Onetel. Centrica, the company which owns British Gas as well as Onetel, announced the offloading of its phone unit last week and... [19 Sep 2005]
CIO Jury: Oracle's Siebel buy won't affect us
News Phil Pavitt, CIO at OneTel, said: "Good news - superior Siebel product for cut-throat Oracle pricing. Phil Pavitt, CIO, OneTel Oracle's $5.8bn acquisition of rival Siebel will not have any significant... [14 Sep 2005]
CIO Jury: London bombings prompt disaster recovery checks
News Phil Pavitt, CIO, OneTel Two-thirds of silicon.com's 12-man CIO Jury panel of UK heads of IT said they have reviewed business continuity plans as a direct result of the terrorist attacks. That assessment is backed up by... [18 Aug 2005]
Onetel and Easynet team up for next gen fat pipes
News Onetel, the telecommunications wing of utility giant Centrica, has teamed up with Easynet to offer its broadband services to businesses and consumers. Ian El-Mokadem, managing director of Onetel, said in... [01 Aug 2005]
Centrica unties top execs with wireless
Case Study While Centrica - which owns brands including British Gas and Onetel - already had 9,000 engineers out in the field using tablet PCs, the company's senior execs took some persuading that they should go wireless too. [22 Jun 2005]
When it's best to forge ahead with an ailing IT project
News Phil Pavitt, CIO at OneTel, said: "Killing a project often helps highlight the internal issues that may have caused it to become problematic in the first place. Deciding when to kill an ailing IT project or more... [12 Apr 2005]
CIO Jury: When is the right time to kill an IT project?
News Phil Pavitt, CIO, OneTel It is better to kill off a problematic IT project that has fallen off track than to continue "flogging a dead horse" simply to satisfy boardroom targets, according to UK IT chiefs. [07 Apr 2005]
CIO Jury: Are IT departments the new "corporate police force"?
News Phil Pavitt, CIO, OneTel IT departments feel increasingly under pressure to be the "corporate police force" responsible for enforcing internal ethical and code of conduct policies, according to UK bosses. [10 Mar 2005]
