Vodafone dials into booming Indian mobile phone market
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British mobile phone giant Vodafone, grappling with intense competition in Europe, tapped into the booming Indian economy after winning control of Hutchison Essar for 11.1 billion dollars.
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British mobile phone giant Vodafone 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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Telecom giant Vodafone has said it will invest more than two billion dollars in a drive to make its new Indian purchase, Hutchison Essar, the country's biggest mobile phone company.
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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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Indian mobile phone service providers  added more than 5 million GSM customers in May, taking the user  base to 130.6 million in the world&#39;s fastest-growing cellular  market, an industry body said on Friday.
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The deregulation of Pakistan's telecom industry is fast gaining momentum with dozens more communications providers and millions of customers entering both the fixed line and mobile markets.
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InfoWorld - India&#8217;s mobile handset production is growing fast, fueled by rapid growth in the number of mobile subscribers in the country.
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India has overtaken the US to become mobile phone giant Nokia's second largest sales market after China.
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Vodafone Group Plc plans to lure more than 10 million customers to the company&#39;s high-speed mobile- phone services by March 2006, the first indication of how it plans to generate sales from licenses that cost $20 billion.
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Vodafone pushed further into the world  of mobile Internet services on Thursday after it said it would  become the latest operator to offer online auction site eBay on  mobile phones.
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Vodafone, the world&#39;s largest mobile phone operator, today finally launched its third generation (3G) services as it seeks to recoup Â£16.
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The mobile telephone company,  Vodafone, begins to use its brand name across India.
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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.
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The number of Indian mobile phone subscribers has passed the 200 million mark after the country added another eight million customers last month, industry figures show.
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Forget sticking a toe in the water, Vodafone&#39;s done a cannonball -- unveiling 10 handsets it&#39;s got lined up for the November launch of its 3G consumer services in the UK.
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Vodafone seems to be lining up a November launch of its 3G mobile phone service for the consumer user. To date the operartor has only offered next generation mobile serivces on a selective basis to business users.
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Vodafone sees its customer base rise more than expected in the last quarter of 2006, thanks to emerging markets.