Staff Reporter

Vodafone service provider Enable Communications (for-merly WaveTech) has been bought by Centrica as part of a 43 million deal. No changes will be made to Enable Communications staff or premises. Centricas telecoms division One.Tel which has an existing customer base of 1.1 million will acquire 10000 mobile customers 238000 residential fixed-line customers and 11000 business fixed-line customers following the takeover.

Centrica Telecommunications has around 1.5 million customer accounts under the One.Tel and British Gas Communications brands.

Asif Aziz head of voice services at Centrica subsidiary One.Tel said:

Weve bought Telco Holdings and all the companies within that including all their customers assets and capabilities. The name Enable Communications will continue to operate.

Centrica acquired Enable Communications parent company Telco Holdings last week for 43 million in cash.

Centrica has also taken on 1.2 million of debt. Vodafone has transferred Enables SP licence to Centrica which will run the mobile division exactly as it was under its former parent company.

A Vodafone statement said: Vodafone has agreed to transfer the SP licence to Centrica based on the strength of the strategic relationship already exists between Centrica and Vodafone and assurances that Centrica will maintain the SP business at its current level.

Sir Roy Gardner chief executive of Centrica said: This acquisition will enable us to reinforce One.Tel as the major alternative for BT customers and support our efforts in the B2B market.

Enfield-based Telco Global Group was set up in 1996 and provides fixed and mobile telecoms and Internet to residential and business customers. Telco is also a major distributor of international pre-paid phone cards.

And big grovels to T-Mobile and The Carphone Warehouse who won the Network Caller and Mystery Shop that week and didnt have their week of first place glory publicised.

Our impressive screw-up was even more galling for Carphone Warehouse whose sales star Miah garnered an unprecedented 100 per cent score of 30 points out of 30.

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MoCo Business part of dealer distributor MoCo Cell Link is on the recruitment hunt after signing up to be a 3 direct dealer. Said MoCo director of business sales Dave Burrell:

We were previously putting all our 3 connections through Unique Air but weve seen a real change in 3. The network has got over its initial teething troubles and presents an attractive option for us right now. Our main push will be through our telesales department which sells directly to consumers. 3s tariffs are very competitive and it should do well for us.

MoCo Businesss field sales division is pulling in around 2500 connections a month.

We have just clinched a deal for 400 connections for a building company in the north.

MoCo Business won part of the Governments Central Buying Consortium (CBC) contract in May and says that it has now landed around 7000 of the 14000 possible connections despite competition from the other two CBC bid-winners T-Mobile and O2.

We are now the largest connector of BlackBerrys for O2 said Burrell. We have just connected 300 BlackBerrys for the CBC alone and are trialling them with other 3G services.