About Us
Frequency Telecom is a global mobile accessory distributor, supplying 50 countries worldwide with a full range of accessory solutions for all leading smartphones and devices, including cases and headphones.
Established in 2002 Frequency Telecom has achieved year on year growth and employs over 60 people, across the UK, Germany and Russia.
Our Commitment
Frequency Telecom is committed to going the extra mile as a distributor. We treat our partners’ brand as if it's our own. Through account management and marketing, we actively work to drive sales for the brands and the retailer.
Where we operate/distribute
With a multilingual, multi-cultural business we are able to trade worldwide. Languages spoken by our team include Russian, German, Swedish, Spanish, Italian, French, Greek and Polish. Our head office is based near London with key international desk handling covering Western and Southern Europe, along with Scandinavia.
We also have offices in Germany and Russia.
Meet some of our team
Gareth Limpenny
Karen Powell
John Willoughby
Andrew Cain
Magda Podobinska
Paul Slaven
Björn Jaspersen
John Jones
Emilie Baffogne
Sophie Baker
Niklas Fredman
Joe Hankin
Gregg Ambrose
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Our Story - In Song!
Abandoman bring the Frequency story to life...
To celebrate the company's 10th anniversary, Frequency founder and Managing Director Gareth Limpenny spent an afternoon with musical comedy act Abandoman. After taking just a few notes the band then created this song which tells the story of how Frequency got started and prospered over the past decade.
You can read more about Abandoman on their website.
Our History
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
Walt Disney
The story begins With extensive experience in the telecoms industry Gareth Limpenny established Frequency Telecom with three colleagues. His vision was to create a company that excelled in distribution and the objective to simply deliver high quality handsets on time.
Turnover grows
In our second year of trading Frequency achieved £9.9 million turnover. This was helped by a £1m deal with O2 for handsets we sourced when no one else could.
Turnover grows again...
Business quickly grew in a dynamic market and turnover reached £16million.
Jelly Communications Frequency were joined by John Jones and Jelly Communications was born. Offering connected mobile phone packages to the B2B SME market. Frequency’s turnover grew to £19 million.
John Willoughby joins With over 15 years telecoms and mobile accessory experience John Willoughby joined the company as Sales Director and was strategic in helping us to capitalise on the growing accessory market.
The accessories arrive
Through vision and experience we identified the potential market growth in the smartphone industry. With this growth explosion we realigned our strategy and began to adapt the product portfolio to include more mobile accessories.
Case-Mate
With a growing smartphone and device market we established a relationship with Case-Mate, US based mobile phone case manufacturer.
Due to expansion an office move doubled the premises to 6,000 sq. ft.
European expansion
We took the strategic decision to capitalise on the expansion of the smartphone market into Europe. As a result recruited a multi-lingual international sales team to build pan European distribution.
Boosting signals
We continue to strengthen our customer base signing agreements to supply Carphone Warehouse.
We also signed an agreement with Nextivity to sell Cel-Fi 3G signal boosters
Another move
Another office move saw us triple our space in a 18,000 square ft building, needed to accommodate all our new brands and growing team. We also opened new offices in Bonn, Germany and Moscow, Russia.
More brands
We expanded our product/brand portfolio to include:
- JAYS - Earphones/Headphones
- Griffin - Mobile power accessories
- Motorola Mobility
- HTC - Genuine accessories
Case-Mate success
Case brand leadership in the UK for Case-Mate.
(source: GFK September 2011)
Jelly sponsor Crystal Palace
The Music Angel arrives
We moved further into the audio market with new brands such as thinksound and Music Angel Friendz.
Sunday Times 2013 Profit Track 100
Frequency were proud to be featured in the prestigious Sunday Times 2013 Profit Track list for April 2013. Published each April, the Sunday Times Profit Track 100 league table ranks Britain’s top 100 private companies with the fastest-growing profits based on their latest three years of available accounts.
Download Here »In to the future...
We have over 60 employees working with over 14 top mobile accessory brands in the UK and Europe and looking forward to a very bright future.