Vodafone falls on Sprint report
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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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Shares of Sprint Corp. FON.N rose  5.4 percent before the bell on Tuesday after the Wall Street  Journal reported that Verizon Communications VZ.N has gained  the backing of partner Vodafone Group VOD.L to bid for  Sprint.
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Shares in telecoms group Thus drop nearly 25%  as worries about stiff competition force the company to issue a profit warning.
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Institutional investor concerns that  British-based Vodafone Group Plc might be drawn into its second  U.S. takeover attempt of the year sent the mobile phone giant's  shares falling on Tuesday.
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London equities fell in opening trade on Tuesday, as British Energy tumbled after cutting its annual output targets and Vodafone lost ground on news of planned capital expenditure on its 3G network.
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LONDON : British 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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Sprint Nextel Corp. said Thursday that its second-quarter profit fell 38 percent as the nation's third-largest wireless carrier absorbed costs from its merger with Nextel Communications Inc.
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Sprint Nextel Corp. , the No. 3  U.S. wireless provider, said on Thursday its quarterly revenue  rose as it added new subscribers, while earnings fell after its  acquisition of Nextel.
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Vodafone is expected to say next week that its core profit margin will continue to fall in the current financial year, as the world&#39;s largest mobile phone group by revenue fights fierce competition in its European markets.
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VODAFONE posted what chief executive Arun Sarin described as &quot;a robust set of half year results&quot; on Tuesday. * Group turnover of Â£16.8 billion.
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Shares of Applied Digital Solutions and its publicly traded subsidiary, VeriChip, fell as investors reacted to a report this weekend linking the tiny radio device to cancer.
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San Diego's wireless wonder beats expectations, but shares fall.
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VODAFONE faces losing its last opportunity to gain an independent foothold in the US as the bidding war for Sprint, Americaâs top US mobile operator, heats up.
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Shares of Sprint and Nextel jumped Thursday following reports the two telecommunications companies are discussing a merger. Sprint stock gained a $1.80 a share to close at $24.30 on the New York Stock Exchange.
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(InfoWorld) - Shareholders of Vodafone Group soundly rejected a proposal to spin off the company's stake in Verizon Wireless on Tuesday, signaling they want the British mobile operator's management to stay the course. Vodafone, which has cellular businesses in 23 countries around the world, owns 45 percent of Verizon Wireless. Incumbent wireline carrier Verizon Communications holds the other 55 percent. Efficient Capital Structures (ECS), an investor group, presented a resolution for Vodafone's Tuesday annual meeting that called on the carrier to either create a new holding company consisting of its stake in Verizon Wireless or create a separate tracking stock so investors could choose to buy into that part of Vodafone. ECS argued investors can't take advantage of Verizon's success today. "The investment is 'buried' within Vodafone's Emerging Markets division, preventing the market from valuing it directly," ECS Chairman Glenn Cooper said in a statement to shareholders. He also argued that because Verizon uses CDMA while the rest of Vodafone's networks are based on GSM, it should be broken out. However, less than 5 percent of Vodafone shares were voted in favor of the resolution, one of a series of proposals by the group that the company's board opposed. All of them were voted down. Verizon Wireless is one of the two dominant mobile operators in the U.S. Rival AT&T has 62 million subscribers to Verizon's 60 million, but Verizon had slightly more revenue last year at about US$38 billion. Vodafone's stake in the operator gives it a toehold in the U.S. mobile market but doesn't allow it to run its own business or build up its brand. Vodafone tried to acquire AT&T Wireless in 2004 before that company was acquired by Cingular. Joint ownership also leaves Verizon Communications without full ownership of its cellular business, which rival AT&T now has. That may make it easier for AT&T to bundle wired and wireless services for subscribers. Last week,Â Vodafone denied reports that it was considering buying all of Verizon CommunicationsÂ and then spinning off the wireless business. Vodafone had 198.6 million customers across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region at the end of last year. Â
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Sprint Nextel Corp  reported deeper than expected subscriber losses on Friday and said it would cut about 4,000 jobs, raising fears of a slowdown in the U.S. wireless industry, and its stock dropped nearly 25 percent.
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Qualcomm shares fell yesterday after the wireless technology giant said it may change the way it accounts for royalties on its financial statements.