Vodafone interim profits dip, dividend hiked
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Mobile telephone giant Vodafone reported a two percent fall in half-year underlying profits as the group added 7.4 million new customers.
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Japan's top mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo said its interim sales and profits fell due to stiff competition but forecast higher profitability in the full year.
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Mobile phone group Vodafone said Thursday that it won 9.1 million new customers during its first quarter, almost double the amount a year earlier, owing to strong growth in emerging markets.
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Vodafone Group Plc plans to hand 6.0 billion pounds ($11.12 billion) back to shareholders this year after doubling half-year and full-year
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Vodafone, the world&#39;s largest mobile phone company, today gave shareholders an early Christmas present by doubling its half-year dividend to 1.91p and extending a share buy-back programme.
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London equities ended their three-day losing streak on Thursday as Vodafone shares led the charge and investors awaited the Bank of England&#39;s interest rate decision.
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Vodafone Group Plc plans to hand 6.0  billion pounds ($11.12 billion) back to shareholders this year  after doubling half-year and full-year dividends and boosting a  multi-billion pound share buy-back program.
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Severn Trent, the UK environmental services group, said it intended to raise its interim dividend by 2.5 per cent to 18.21p despite a 10 per cent fall in pre-tax profits to Â£126.2m ($239m) for the six months to 30 September.
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Joy at data revenues leap Vodafone stuck to its outlook guns this morning when it released a trading statement that showed data revenue growth far outstripping the increase in dreary old voice.â¦
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Sprint Nextel Corp., the nation's third largest wireless carrier, said Wednesday that fourth-quarter profits rose 33 percent on stronger revenue, but the company continued to lose high-quality subscribers.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Mobile phone network leader Vodafone Group on Tuesday cheered the market by more than doubling its interim dividend and increasing its share buyback plan by 1 billion pounds ($1.
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Newly merged telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent has reported a slump in underlying profits last year and ramped up planned job cuts to 12,500 or 15.6 percent of its global workforce.
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Vodafone Group shares fell on Tuesday as a Wall Street Journal report that its US partner Verizon was weighing a $40 billion-plus bid for Sprint revived fears it would be drawn into its second bid battle of the year.
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Telecoms operator BT Group on Thursday said net profits slumped 75 percent during its third quarter, skewed by an exceptional tax gain made the previous fiscal year.
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WELLINGTON (Dow Jones)--Telecom Corp. of New Zealand (TEL.NZ) is expected to post higher net profit for the fiscal first quarter thanks to reduced interest costs, but operating earnings
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European stock markets drifted lower in early trading as profit-taking set in after recent gains, despite a modest rise on Wall Street and well-received results from cellphone giant Vodafone.
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VODAFONE has revealed it will hike its dividend payment when it reports half-year results in November, while chief executive Arun Sarin insisted he was keen to make further global acquisitions.