Vodafone eyes acquisitions
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Vodafone says it remains keen on purchases in France, eastern Europe and fast growing Asia and Africa after detailing annual cost cuts
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Vodafone buys a controlling stake in Indian mobile phone firm Hutchison Essar for $11bn (Â£5.7bn).
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VODAFONE is to offer its 16.2 million mobile phone customers its own-brand broadband after striking a deal to use BT lines. The service, to be launched by the end of this year, will allow Vodafone to sell packages of mobile airtime, text messages and home broadband services.
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Investors in mobile phone giant Vodafone were rattled today by speculation the company could be drawn into a 40 billion US dollars (Â£20.8bn) bidding war.
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British mobile phone company Vodafone  Plc is set to announce it will sell own-brand low-cost 3G  handsets from October, a source close to the company said on  Wednesday.
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British mobile phone giant Vodafone said it has agreed to buy an 11-billion-dollar controlling interest in India's Hutchison Essar, a spokesman for the company said.
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Wireless telecommunications company  Vodafone Group Plc  has been considering a $160 billion  takeover bid for Verizon Communications Inc. , the  Financial Times reported on Monday on its Alphaville Web site.
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Mobile phone giant Vodafone   unveiled plans to return an extra 3 billion pounds (&#36;5.6  billion) to investors and hiked its dividends on Tuesday,  spicing a well-flagged new strategy to cut costs and embrace  new technology.
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Mobile phone firm Vodafone is to enter the UK fixed-line broadband market after striking a deal with BT.
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Vodafone is to kick-start a global push into 3G with an array of mobile phones that is likely to outstrip the range of handsets being sold by many of its rivals.
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US telecom giant ATT is not considering a bid for mobile phone operator Vodafone, but is likely to make smaller acquisitions to better meet the needs of multinational companies, the company&#39;s chief executive said in an interview published Tuesday.
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Vodafone Group Plc, the world&#39;s largest mobile-phone operator, expects cost cuts and bulk-order savings to boost earnings by more than a third before 2008, as the company reins in spending from Germany to Albania.
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British mobile phone giant Vodafone has agreed to buy an 11-billion-dollar controlling stake in India's Hutchison Essar in an attempt to move into the world's fastest-growing mobile phone market.
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Shares in British mobile phone group Vodafone jumped Thursday to the highest level for about five and a half years on speculation linking it to a European distribution deal for Apple&#39;s iPhone.
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British mobile phone giant Vodafone, grappling with intense competition in Europe, has tapped into the booming Indian economy after winning control of Hutchison Essar for 11.1 billion dollars.
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Vodafone looks to have won the battle for control of Hutchison Essar, India's fourth largest mobile operator, according to people familiar with the matter.
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(InfoWorld) - Vodafone has begun offering new fees and features to stir demand for mobile Internet services as competition hits the company's profits from voice services. Two of the group's largest subsidiaries, Germany's Vodafone D2 GmbH and Vodafone Ltd. in the U.K., announced new mobile data offerings on Wednesday with subsidiaries in several other markets planning customized packages of their own, according to Vodafone Group spokesman Mark Street. "Pricing for these new mobile Internet services will be on a market by market basis, and it will be up to each market to decide on features," Street said. "But what I can say is that as a group, we're looking at prices that are predictable and transparent and services that offer value for their money." The move comes as Vodafone, which has been facing tough competition from low-cost mobile phone operators, seeks new revenue streams to offset falling prices from its traditional cash-cow voice service. It has also been prompted by mobile Internet services, such as T-Mobile International AG's Web n' Walk, designed for quick, easy, and competitively priced mobile phone surfing. As of July 15, Vodafone customers in Germany can subscribe to the new mobile Internet service, called "Handy 2.0," available for a flat monthly fee of â¬9.95 ($13.44) . The service uses the open-source Opera mobile phone browser, which formats content for easy viewing on small displays, according to Vodafone D2 spokeswoman Bettina Donges. "Handy 2.0 will be like a PC experience," Donges said. "You'll be able to surf all around the Net with your mobile phone, the pages will be compiled fast, and they'll be easy to read." The new flat-rate Internet offering, however, doesn't apply to VoIPÂ applications, according to Donges. Vodafone will not support mobile VoIP service until it can guarantee quality service, Street said. In addition, Vodafone has struck Internet partnerships with eBay, Google, YouTube, and MySpace.com to provide services specially tailored for mobile phones. Customers access the Internet service through the Vodafone Live mobile portal. The portal service is included in the various bundled minute packages available from the German operator. Initially, several handsets, including the Nokia N73 and N95, the Motorola V3 and V980, and the Samsung Zv60 and D900i, will support the Handy 2.0 service, but other phones will be added over time. In the U.K., Vodafone is launching a similar service that takes Web pages designed for PCs and makes them easy to read on handsets. The Vodafone Mobile Internet offerings also includes partnerships with eBay, Google, YouTube, and MySpace as well as Yahoo. Analysts see a couple of advantages to the partnerships. By collaborating with these brands, Vodafone not only gives customers a better experience of using their Internet services on their phones but will also benefit from advertising revenue opportunities, according to John Delaney, principal analyst at Ovum Ltd. One slight difference between the German and U.K. offering is the price: U.K. customers who sign up for a data pack pay Â£7.50 ($14.90 ) per month for 120MB of data, which is equivalent to four hours of viewing YouTube or up to 160 mobile Internet pages every day for a month. Other customers are charged per kilobyte, up to a Â£1 per day for 500KB, with no additional charge unless the day's usage exceeds 15MB.