Vodafone | July 28, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone today announces that the Board of Verizon Wireless has approved the payment of a $10 billion (£6.1 billion) dividend. As a 45% shareholder in Verizon Wireless, Vodafone’s share of the dividend will be $4.5 billion (£2.8...
Vodafone | July 28, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone Turkey today announced that it has agreed terms with the Koç Group to acquire Koç.net1 for a cash consideration of TRY30 million (£11 million2). Koç.net provides fixed voice and data services to enterprise customers and will...
Vodafone | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone today announced the world’s first designated prepay phone specifically designed to put the Facebook experience into the heart of the handset, allowing people to easily share and connect with their friends when they’re on the move.
The...
Verizon Wireless announced today that its board of directors has approved a “distribution” of $10 billion to parent companies Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) and Vodafone Group plc (VOD) to be paid on Jan. 31, 2012. The distribution will be paid in accordance to the...
Vodafone | July 26, 2011 | Press Release
The Annual General Meeting of Vodafone Group Plc was held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1 on Tuesday 26 July 2011.
View the results of polls on all 23 resolutions.
The number of...
Vodafone | July 22, 2011 | Press Release
Group service revenue +1.5%(*), excluding mobile termination rate cuts +3.9%(*)
Strong service revenue growth in India +16.8%(*), Turkey +32.1%(*) and Vodacom +7.8%(*); resilient performance from Germany +0.2%(*) and UK +1.7%(*)
Conditions in southern Europe remain challenging: Italy -1.5%(*), Spain...
Reuters | July 20, 2011 | Nicola Leske
Norway's Telenor and Britain's Vodafone are expected to outshine their European telecom peers as the sector struggles with weak economies and forced price cuts.
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A number of emerging nations are highlighted in analyst Chetan Sharma's telecommunications predictions, released earlier this month. Brazil takes fifth place in total number of subscribers, while Mexico takes the 10th spot. China leads in the number of subscribers, but the U.S. dominates in...
Ericsson | July 6, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone Italy has selected Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) as partner to manage the field operations of Vodafone’s fixed and mobile access and transmission networks, as well as for fixed core network nodes.
As part of the five...
Vodafone | July 8, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone has presented awards to four of its key suppliers following its annual Supplier Conference attended by the top 70 of its strategic suppliers.
Vodafone’s Supply Chain Management team recognised the suppliers for meeting the...
Red Bend Software, Mobile Software Management (MSM), announced that BYD Electronic Company Limited of China, manufacturer of mobile handset components and modules, has licensed Red Bend's vRapid Mobile
International wireless conglomerate Vodafone Group plc (VOD) said it could receive up to $5.5 billion in an annual dividend from its 45% ownership stake in Verizon Wireless (VZ), according to published reports.According to a Bloomberg report, Vodafone's CFO Andy Halford told reporters in New...
Spain kicked off the auction of 58 wireless spectrum licenses in the 800 MHz, 900 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum bands that published reports indicated could raise nearly $3 billion for the country.The auction, which is expected to take around two weeks, counts 11...
ZTE | June 28, 2011 | Press Release
28 June 2011, Shenzhen – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today announced that it has successfully...
The new CEO of Tekelec (TKLC) , Ron de Lange, took a few minutes to talk with RCR Wireless News concerning Tekelec's new direction the company will take with de Lange at the helm.It's safe to say that de Lange has some tough...
Hindustan Times | June 20, 2011
Telecom giants Bharti Airtel and Vodafone added 2.5 million subscribers each in May, industry data showed. The month saw a net addition of 9.5 million GSM subscribers in the country. The total number of GSM subscribers in India crossed...
Mumbai Mirror | June 18, 2011 | Bapu Deedwania
Fifteen days ago, mobile giants Vodafone had filed a defamation notice against an irate customer, seeking to restrict him from maligning the company on the Internet and allegedly harassing their top management with his complaints about their...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Despite having previously been late adopters of new mobile technologies, the United States has taken the lead...
Kore Wireless Group Inc. announced it has acquired Australian-based M2M provider Mach Communications Pty.Ltd. to grow its machine-to-machine business for multinational companies. Terms of the acquisition were not announced between the two privately held companies. Melbourne, Australia-based Mach is set to become Kore Wireless...
Economic Times | May 25, 2011 | Deepshikha Sikarwar & Joji Thomas Phillip
NEW DELHI: India has rejected the Dutch government's plea for an out-of-court settlement of Netherlands-registered Vodafone International Holdings BV's dispute involving a tax claim of over Rs 11,000 crore.
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Economic Times | May 25, 2011 | Deepshikha Sikarwar & Joji Thomas Phillip
NEW DELHI: India has rejected the Dutch government's plea for an out-of-court settlement of Netherlands-registered Vodafone International Holdings BV's dispute involving a tax claim of over Rs 11,000 crore.
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Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Apple was crowned king of brand values with the top slot as Round Rock-based Dell Inc. plummeted from the 2011 list this year.
Tech companies and telecoms did well on the new ranking of brand values by global agency Millward Brown Inc. Apple climbed a...
AT&T Inc.'s (T) image may have been shaken domestically by troubled iPhone connections, but the company's brand has never been stronger worldwide, according to a retail ranking conducted by marketing firm Millward Brown.The ranking found that the AT&T brand is worth nearly $70 billion,...
