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Vodafone Group Plc.

Market Cap:$121.2B

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$51.0B

Public

Dow Jones Description

Vodafone Group Plc is the world's leading mobile telecommunications company, with a significant presence in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the United States through the Company's subsidiary undertakings, joint ventures, associated undertakings and investments. The Group's mobile subsidiaries operate under the brand name 'Vodafone'. In the United States the Group's associated undertaking operates as Verizon Wireless. During the last two financial years, the Group has also entered into arrangements with network operators in countries where the Group does not hold an equity stake. Under the terms of these Partner Network Agreements, the Group and its partner networks co-operate in the development and marketing of global services under dual brand logos.

Number of Employees 61,672

Contact Information

Vodafone House

The Connection

Newbury

Berkshire RG14 2FN

www.vodafone.co...

+44 (0) 1635 33251

Peer Companies

NAICS Code Offices of Other Holding Companies: 551112

Company News

Recent Events

'Northamptonshire police use BlackBerry service from Vodafone'

11/27/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story
Australia - Telecoms Industry - Statistics And Forecasts - New Report Published

11/26/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story
'Tesco Mobile to offer iPhone before Christmas'

11/26/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Operator News in Brief - 24th Nov 2009

11/24/09 - Site Opening - View Story
UPDATE: Telkom To Launch Mobile Service To Stem Customer Loss

11/24/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
SmarTone extending HSPA+ to Macau

11/23/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
'Vodafone Germany launches Motorola Milestone'

11/23/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
'Vodafone brings Sony Ericsson Naite handset to Romania'

11/23/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
'Vodafone, Deutsche Bank launch mobile banking services'

11/19/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Operator News in Brief - 20th Nov 2009

11/20/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Dell Officially Enters The Smartphone Market

11/18/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Operator News in Brief - 16th Nov 2009

11/16/09 - Site Opening - View Story
'Vodafone Portugal launches Vodafone 360 Samsung M1'

11/18/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Vodafone and RIM Introduce the BlackBerry Storm2 Smartphone

11/13/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Vodafone and Chunghwa Telecom Announce Partnership

11/13/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Vodafone, Chunghwa Team Up

11/12/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Vodafone More Than Doubles Earnings

11/10/09 - Stock Split / Dividend - View Story
Vodafone's profit up 15 percent

11/10/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
'Vodafone Italia launches 10 Autoricarica tariff'

11/10/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

News & Analysis

hutchison and telephony and vodafone group plc. - All News and Analysis

Vodafone and Hutchison merge Australian operations

Strategy Eye - 2009-02-10

Vodafone and Hutchison Whampoa are merging their Australian telecoms operations in a move which will help the third and fourth largest providers in terms of market share make up ground lost to market leader Telstra and second-placed Singapore Telecommunications. The...

Tags: Vodafone Group Plc., Hutchison, 3G, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Operational Accounting, Wireless And Mobility, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, Finance, SingTel, Hutchison Whampoa, Jasper Jackson
US seeks details of Hutch-NGO spat.

- 2007-05-28

May 28--NEW DELHI -- The United States Department of Justice has asked Telecom Watchdog, the non-governmental organisation NGO, which had challenged Vodafone's acquisition of Hutchison Essar Limited HEL, details of the case. This comes even as the Delhi High Court this week will hear the revival...

Tags: FINANCE, Hutchison, NETWORKING, petition, Taxes, Telephony, U.S. Department of Justice, Vodafone Group Plc.
War for Hutch gets expensive.

- 2006-12-25

Dec. 25--MUMBAI, India -- The race for Hutch Essar has entered its penultimate lap with Goldman Sachs shortlisting telecom giant Vodafone, Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications, the Ruias of Essar, Maxis of Malaysia and Egypt's Orascom for Hutchison Whampoa's 67 percent stake in its Indian joint venture....

Tags: Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Hutchison, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, Vodafone Group Plc.
Sydney: the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission begins to arbitrate a dispute between Hutchison Telecom and Vodafone over the prices that Vodafone is charging to terminate calls on its network

- 2005-02-01

SYDNEY: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission begins to arbitrate a dispute between Hutchison Telecom and Vodafone over the prices that Vodafone is charging to terminate calls on its network, and a similar dispute between PowerTel and Optus.

Tags: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Hutchison, network, NETWORKING, Sydney, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, Vodafone Group Plc.
Phone towers reined in.

- 2002-10-10

Oct 10, 2002 (The Courier-Mail - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Communications Authority has approved tough new standards on mobile telephone tower construction. The changes will see Telstra, SingTel Optus, Hutchison Telecommunications and Vodafone Australia forced to comply with a new code of practice....

Tags: Australian Communications Authority, Hutchison, NETWORKING, phone, Quality, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, tower, Vodafone Group Plc.