Former Business Brands and Companies
Mastercare Commercial Services offered IT services to IT businesses. A call centre provided telephone and email support, and a team of technicians and engineers provided repairs to PCs and laptops on site, and made inspections for insurance companies. The business was rebranded and merged with The TechGuys in September 2006. From 2008 the majority of all commercial work has been outsourced.
The Link was a UK mobile phone retailer. In June 2006 DSG sold its whole interest to O2. DSG still honours all contracts that exist with The Link but are no longer seeking new business.
Freeserve was purchased by France Télécom, and rebranded as Wanadoo. Wanadoo has since been rebranded again in the UK under the Orange brand.
Freetalk was a (VOIP) business owned by the DSG Group. Freetalk customers were transferred in 2006 to Vonage, a US based VOIP company after a takeover was arranged.
For a few years during the late 1990s, DSG operated a chain of computer games shops, called Jakarta. They were in various high-traffic locations (such as Bluewater and Lakeside), but failed to get the market share deemed essential to keep the chain operating. It was closed down during the early 2000s.
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