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News EasyMobile, Stelios' no-frills MVNO, shut up shop last year and Disney ditched plans to launch an MVNO in the UK. Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) and incumbent operators need to work together to beef up their... [09 Feb 2007]
Virtual mobile companies: It's all about the voice
News The biggest and best known, Virgin Mobile, was bought by NTL:Telewest for £962m last year; Stelios' no-frills MVNO easyMobile shut up shop in November; and Disney shelved its plans for a kid-targeting operator. [17 Jan 2007]
RIP easyMobile: No frills no longer
News The decision to close easyMobile's UK operations was taken by TDC, a Danish operator which licensed the brand from Stelios Haji-Iannou's easyGroup. January 2004: Stelios considers mobile venture August... [14 Nov 2006]
easyGroup wins easy.com fight with Easynet
News Among the companies that have had calls from Stelios' lawyers are Easyart, Easybroker, EasyPizza and EIBS, which owns the Easysite content management system. URL-hungry easyGroup has won the right to trademark its... [19 Jul 2006]
Orange and easyMobile court case to start in November
News EasyMobile boss Stelios Haji-Iannou said the company is looking forward to its day in court. Orange and easyMobile will face each other in the courts this year to settle their spat over colour. The pair are getting... [02 Mar 2006]
IT pros help educate London kids
Case Study The WCIT has organised talks for students by inspirational businessmen, such as EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou. Lilian Baylis school in Lambeth, a disadvantaged area of south London, achieved "specialist school... [15 Dec 2005]
easyMobile: Help us poke fun at Orange
News The photo can be found here.easyMobile was not so charitable about sharing the use of colour last year, when it demanded an Orange reseller, whose company also went by the name of easymobile, stop using the easymobile name, although... [15 Nov 2005]
Leader: Murdoch as Mr Broadband?
Leader The company - independent until now and certainly nothing to do with Stelios' empire - is among the leaders in broadband. BSkyB probably couldn't have chosen a better ISP to buy than Easynet. That isn't in terms of plain... [21 Oct 2005]
easyMobile takes brand to Germany
News easyMobile, the no-frills operator owned by easyGroup boss Stelios Haji-Iannou, is off to pastures new with the opening of a German arm, the company announced today. Germany marks the third territory for easyMobile,... [19 Sep 2005]
easyMobile wins easiermobile.com domain
News Carphone Warehouse responded that easyGroup had no trademark or common law rights to the name and that the brand, easyMobile, was composed of two generic words that the public wouldn't necessarily associate with the... [14 Jul 2005]
3G will mean more Virgins
News The sector has already seen some activity of late, with easyGroup boss Stelios Haji-Iannou launching his own no-frills offering to compete with similar offerings from Tesco and Virgin. With 3G now available from most of... [08 Jun 2005]
easyMobile rages over Orange ads on easymobile
News easyMobile - the mobile company owned by Greek-Cypriot entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Iannou - is threatening easymobile - the mobile phone company owned by Welsh reseller David Evans - with legal action unless it renames the... [17 May 2005]
Will's Web Watch: easy, easy, easy...
Comment Granted, easyPizza is only selling to select parts of Milton Keynes - which sounds like an oxymoron if ever I heard one - but Stelios is clearly testing the waters and there must have been some logic behind his choice of... [20 Apr 2005]
easyMobile moves into the Netherlands
News This is the second market for easyMobile, having launched in the UK last month as the latest addition to Stelios Haji-Iannou's 'easy' empire. I am sure that France and Germany are on the agenda of... [08 Apr 2005]
Stelios launches no-frills mobile contender
News The venture is the latest addition to cheapo airline pioneer Stelios Haji-Iannou's empire and is concentrating on selling airtime and SMS without any bundling or handset subsidies. The newest UK operator will be run in... [10 Mar 2005]
