Timeline
| Year | Month | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | The Carphone Warehouse launched | |
| 1994 | Carphone Warehouse Insurance launched | |
| 1996 | First Phone House stores open outside of the UK, in Paris and Dublin | |
| 1999 | January | Acquisition of Tandy (UK only) for £9m |
| 2000 | July | IPO on main market of London Stock Exchange at a price of GBP£2.00 per share |
| 2001 | June | Acquisition of Cellcom for £9.1m |
| 2002 | Acquired Opal Telecom | |
| 2003 | TalkTalk brand launched | |
| 2004 | January | Acquisition of e2save for £4.7m |
| March | Acquisition of Xtra in Spain for £11.6m | |
| November | TalkTalk Broadband launched | |
| 2005 | March | Acquisition of OneStopPhoneShop for £15m |
| December | Acquisition of Tele2 UK for £11.5m | |
| Acquisition of One.Tel for £169.6m | ||
| 2006 | April | "Free" TalkTalk broadband offer launched |
| October | Acquisition of the access business of AOL UK for £370m | |
| Vodafone switches its contract business to Phones4U | ||
| November | Launch of a MVNO in Spain under the brand "Happy Móvil" | |
| 2007 | January | Suspension of the Big Brother sponsorship deal. |
| May | Roll out of Geek Squad nationwide. | |
| June | Three-year £7million X Factor sponsorship deal signed. | |
| July | Carphone Warehouse offers free laptop with AOL Broadband (counter-offer of PC World's free laptop with Orange Broadband deal). | |
| September | The Carphone Warehouse joins the FTSE100 | |
| 2008 | May | Carphone announces £1.1bn takeover by Best Buy |
| 2010 | March | Carphone and TalkTalk Group split to create two separate publicly listed companies |
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