3 to team up with Ikea? Ikea Mobile

Had lunch today in a restaurant about 100m from the 3 head office in
Maidenhead.

4 chaps on a table by the window working on a laptop. Powerpoint
running and a heading in ~24 point font: "Reasons for signing up with
IKEA Mobile".

Just thought it might be of interest.

Paul

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"Paul Baker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Had lunch today in a restaurant about 100m from the 3 head office in
> Maidenhead.
>
> 4 chaps on a table by the window working on a laptop. Powerpoint
> running and a heading in ~24 point font: "Reasons for signing up with
> IKEA Mobile".
>
> Just thought it might be of interest.
>
> Paul
>

They clearly have noclue about information security, would you trust your
personal details to 3?

"John Mason" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> "Paul Baker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Had lunch today in a restaurant about 100m from the 3 head office in
>> Maidenhead.
>>
>> 4 chaps on a table by the window working on a laptop. Powerpoint
>> running and a heading in ~24 point font: "Reasons for signing up with
>> IKEA Mobile".
>>
>> Just thought it might be of interest.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>
> They clearly have noclue about information security, would you trust your
> personal details to 3?
>
Not if they are held in India - the Data Protection Act does NOT apply - so
there is no control over who can get them.

In article news:<[email protected]>,
Paul Baker wrote:
> ... "Reasons for signing up with IKEA Mobile".
>
> Just thought it might be of interest.

I look forward to seeing their range of flat-packed handsets (supplied
with too few screws, and those of the wrong size)!

Cheers,
Daniel.

Don wrote:
> "John Mason" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> "Paul Baker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> Had lunch today in a restaurant about 100m from the 3 head office in
>>> Maidenhead.
>>>
>>> 4 chaps on a table by the window working on a laptop. Powerpoint
>>> running and a heading in ~24 point font: "Reasons for signing up with
>>> IKEA Mobile".
>>>
>>> Just thought it might be of interest.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>> They clearly have noclue about information security, would you trust your
>> personal details to 3?
>>
> Not if they are held in India - the Data Protection Act does NOT apply - so
> there is no control over who can get them.
>
>
I agree, and I don't give a damn how much companies over here
say that Indian call centres have to adhere to the same levels
of high security, I simply do not believe it.

--
xCx
*Disclaimer* My opinions are mine and I do not represent
anyone or any company.

"xCx" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Don wrote:
>> "John Mason" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> "Paul Baker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>> Had lunch today in a restaurant about 100m from the 3 head office in
>>>> Maidenhead.
>>>>
>>>> 4 chaps on a table by the window working on a laptop. Powerpoint
>>>> running and a heading in ~24 point font: "Reasons for signing up with
>>>> IKEA Mobile".
>>>>
>>>> Just thought it might be of interest.
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>> They clearly have noclue about information security, would you trust
>>> your personal details to 3?
>>>
>> Not if they are held in India - the Data Protection Act does NOT apply -
>> so there is no control over who can get them.
>>
>>
> I agree, and I don't give a damn how much companies over here say that
> Indian call centres have to adhere to the same levels of high security, I
> simply do not believe it.
>
> --
> xCx
> *Disclaimer* My opinions are mine and I do not represent anyone or any
> company.

I don't disagree but my point was that they cannot even look after their own
confidential information in the UK. Never mind India, Egypt is the latest
place they are shipping our data to.

"Daniel James" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article news:<[email protected]>,
> Paul Baker wrote:
>> ... "Reasons for signing up with IKEA Mobile".
>>
>> Just thought it might be of interest.
>
> I look forward to seeing their range of flat-packed handsets (supplied
> with too few screws, and those of the wrong size)!
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>
>
>
And missing instructions :-)

Daniel James wrote:

> I look forward to seeing their range of flat-packed handsets (supplied
> with too few screws, and those of the wrong size)!

I've never found anything missing from any Ikea stuff I've bought. OK,
the office chair I bought with a ten year guarantee wore out after four
years (and then they claimed the g'tee was only three years) has rather
put me off buying from them, but I've never bought flatpacks from thenm
with missing screws.

Iain

Iain wrote:
> Daniel James wrote:
>
>> I look forward to seeing their range of flat-packed handsets (supplied
>> with too few screws, and those of the wrong size)!
>
> I've never found anything missing from any Ikea stuff I've bought. OK,
> the office chair I bought with a ten year guarantee wore out after four
> years (and then they claimed the g'tee was only three years) has rather
> put me off buying from them, but I've never bought flatpacks from thenm
> with missing screws.

I've decorated a property with about £4,000 pounds worth of Ikea
furniture this year. We've suffered missing fittings, damaged fittings,
scratched surfaces, and incorrectly sealed panels among other things.
We worked out that there was a serious problem with 1 in 3 items, which
IMO is totally unacceptable.

They replaced a panel that arrived damaged with one that had already
been returned because it was damaged. You could see where the previous
customer had drawn on the area with ink to mark it. I can't remember
how many sixty mile round journey's we had to make because they refused
to exchange items via the post. They also promised a fuel refund, but
when we got there, said their rules stated they could give us no more
than £5. @_@

Ikea weren't like this ten years ago, but they're sure as hell a
nightmare right now, if you intend to buy a lot of their products.

(You might ask why we carried on buying their stuff given problems at
the early stage, but once we started, we couldn't really stop. The
whole budget was based around Ikea prices .. and the interior design
demanded the uniformity of their product range. Never again anyway.)
--
Walker Moore
(-_-),,|,