Vodafone's emerging markets drive growth
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Vodafone Group had almost 200 million customers by Dec. 31, but continues to face challenges in the competitive and saturated European market.
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Mobile phone group Vodafone announced Tuesday that it slashed net losses last year as its growth strategy in emerging markets such as India and Turkey began to pay off.
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Nokia, the world's top cellphone maker, reported a 57 percent rise in earnings per share in the October-to-December quarter, with booming demand in emerging markets boosting its global market share to 40 percent.
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BARCELONA/HONG KONG  - Vodafone shares climbed in early Monday trading after it beat rival suitors with an $11.1 billion bid for a controlling stake in Hutchison Essar, India's fourth-biggest mobile phone firm.
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With mobile phone markets nearly saturated in the developed world, network operators and handset manufacturers are turning their attention to the fertile ground of emerging countries.
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Nokia , the world's top cellphone maker, reported a 57 percent rise in earnings per share from October to December, with booming demand in emerging markets boosting its global market share to 40 percent.
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4G or not to be 3GSM Mobile carriers risk been leapfrogged by new entrants unless they work together to speed up the development of technologies such as mobile payments, according to Vodafone chief exec Arun Sarin.â¦
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The global market for mobile telephones grew sharply in fourth quarter 2004, with sales up by 25 percent to a record 200 million units from the same period of 2003, but overall sector growth should slow in 2005, the research group Strategy Analytics reported.
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InfoWorld - Some mobile phone companies are looking to emerging markets to find early adopters and for a glimpse at services of the future, CEOs said during the opening day keynote of the&#160;3GSM conference&#160;in Barcelona on Tuesday.
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LONDON -- Cell phone giant Vodafone Group PLC, which has spent years struggling to recoup billions spent on 3G licences, finally launched the cutting-edge service Wednesday in much of Europe and introduced or beefed up its operation in a dozen other
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Sales of mobile phones took off in the second quarter, fueled in large part by replacement purchases in some regions of the world and a growing number of new users in developing markets, according to research firm Gartner.
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Vodafone  shares  climbed on Monday after the British mobile phone giant beat  rival suitors with an $11.1 billion bid for a controlling stake  in Hutchison Essar, India's fourth-biggest cellphone firm.
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The use of mobile phones in emerging markets is growing but people are using their phones for more than just talking.
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Business & money: World's largest mobile operator finds conditions 'very difficult' in Europe but looks to growth in emerging markets like India.
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India has become the fastest-growing cellular market in the world, adding 5.9 million subscribers in August and outstripping ChinaÂs increase of 5.19 million subscribers.
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Vodafone, which has some 330,000 customers in Queensland or about 10% of the state&#39;s mobile market, hopes the promotion will add 150,000 new customers or nearly 1% of Australia&#39;s 16 million mobile telephone users.
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European share indexes opened a touch firmer on Wednesday as a deluge of company updates flooded the market, with mobile phone giant Vodafone leading the way higher after posting a big rise in subscriber numbers.