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Market Cap:$122.2B
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
+44 (0) 1635 33251
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Offices of Other Holding Companies: 551112
Recent Events
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Vodafone and Huawei Open Core Network Innovation Centre in Milan
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Europe tentatively extends rally as Vodafone rises
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'Vodafone launches Samsung M1 in Italy'
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'Vodafone CR introduces Samsung Blue Earth'
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'Northamptonshire police use BlackBerry service from Vodafone'
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Australia - Telecoms Industry - Statistics And Forecasts - New Report Published
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'Tesco Mobile to offer iPhone before Christmas'
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Operator News in Brief - 24th Nov 2009
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UPDATE: Telkom To Launch Mobile Service To Stem Customer Loss
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SmarTone extending HSPA+ to Macau
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'Vodafone Germany launches Motorola Milestone'
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'Vodafone brings Sony Ericsson Naite handset to Romania'
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'Vodafone, Deutsche Bank launch mobile banking services'
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Operator News in Brief - 20th Nov 2009
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Dell Officially Enters The Smartphone Market
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Operator News in Brief - 16th Nov 2009
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'Vodafone Portugal launches Vodafone 360 Samsung M1'
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Vodafone and RIM Introduce the BlackBerry Storm2 Smartphone
News & Analysis
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Twitter signs SMS deal with O2
Strategy Eye
- 2009-07-13
O2 is to become the latest mobile operator to partner with Twitter to allow users to receive tweets via SMS, resurrecting a service that Twitter abandoned last year. O2 customers will be able to receive @replies and direct messages for free, under a 600-a-month fair usage limit. ...
Twitter SMS returns to UK
Strategy Eye
- 2009-03-27
Twitter is partnering with mobile operator Vodafone to allow UK users to receive tweets via SMS, resurrecting the service that it halted last year. Twitter was forced to abandon the service after is revealed that a single UK user could cost up to USD1,000 a year. ...
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...
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Approached Ex-Vodafone Chief Arun Sarin
Content Next
- 2008-12-15
Arun Sarin's name is being floated again, this time for a job at private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Last week, reports surfaced that the ex-Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) chief executive, who left the telecoms giant in July, was being considered for the role of ceo of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)....
Vodafone Keeping Hold of Verizon Stake
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- 2008-11-21
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) CEO Vittorio Colao said the company's board had an "open mind" about a sale of its 45 per cent stake in Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ), but emphasized that he thought that currently the "best thing" for the global telecoms firm was "to stay where we are,"...
Vodafone completes purchase of Ghana Telecom stake
- 2008-08-18
LONDON AFP — British mobile phone giant Vodafone said Monday it had completed the purchase of a 70-percent stake in state-run Ghana Telecommunications. "Further to the ... approval from the Ghanaian Parliament, Vodafone announces today that it has completed the acquisition of a 70 percent stake in Ghana Telecom...
AT&T 'not mulling' offer for Vodafone: company chief
- 2007-06-18
LONDON AFP — US telecom giant AT&T is not considering a bid for British mobile phone operator Vodafone, but is likely to make smaller acquisitions to better meet the needs of multinational companies, the company's chief executive said in an interview published Tuesday. Speaking to the Financial Times, Randall...
Telecommunications Markets in Egypt
- 2007-06-01
SPECIAL FOCUS: EGYPTThe Egyptian telecommunications sector is a vibrant market, growing at 25 percent annually. Since the end of 2005, a gradual deregulation of this sector has taken place. Currently, there is one incumbent fixed-line operator, Telecom Egypt TE, and three GSM operators, Mobinil, Vodafone Egypt, and Etisalat. Of these...
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...
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....
| Volume | 2,118,841 |
| Shares Outstanding | 5.2B |
| Market Cap | 122.2B |
| Year High | 24.040 |
| Year Low | 15.46 |
| Earnings Per Share | 1.00 |
| P/E Ratio | 23.2419 |
| Dividend | 1.2911 |
| Yield | 5.5551 |
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