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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedCarphone Warehouse teams with Best Buy.(News)
RCR Wireless News, October, 2006
Best Buy International will team with U.K. wireless retail giant Carphone Warehouse Group to open stand-alone cell phone stores in the United States.
In a prepared statement, the firms said a trial of Best Buy Mobile stores in New York "is about to commence;'' the companies declined to discuss how many stores are planned. The companies also announced plans to launch a home-computing service in the United Kingdom under Best Buy's Geek Squad brand.
Carphone Warehouse dominates the wireless retail space in Europe by offering a leisurely, interactive sales experience. The company is looking to gain traction on a mobile retail playing field in the United States that is getting increasingly heated: carriers have stepped up their brick-and-mortar sales...
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