Did Britain’s biggest network operators engage in a “shadowy” conspiracy to consolidate the handset sales market, leading to the collapse of retailer Phones4U in 2014? As a major trial investigates these seismic claims, we take a look at independent mobile retailers, and how they’re resisting declining high street sales.
Phones4U’s administrators are currently taking EE, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone to court over “prohibitions on anti-competitive arrangements,” claims which the MNOs strongly deny.
Administrators claim that the firm’s collapse back in 2014 was the result of a conspiracy between the MNOs to take down the independent retailer so they could sell pricey then-new 4G handsets directly to customers.
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