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About Vodafone

Vodafone Group is a mobile network operator headquartered in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. It is the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world by turnover and has a market value of about £100 billion (December 2007). Vodafone currently has equity interests in 25 countries and Partner Networks (networks in which it has no equity stake) in a further 39 countries. The name Vodafone comes from Voice data fone, chosen by the company to "reflect the provision of voice and data services over mobile phones."

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At 31 January 2007 Vodafone had 200 million proportionate customers in 25 markets across 5 continents. ("Proportionate customers" means, for example, that if Vodafone has a 30% stake in a business with a million customers, that is counted as 300,000). On this measure it is the second largest mobile telecom group in the world behind China Mobile. The eight markets where it has more than ten million proportionate customers are the United Kingdom, Germany, India, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Egypt and the United States. In the U.S., these customers come via its minority stake in Verizon Wireless, and in the other seven markets Vodafone has majority-controlled subsidiaries.

On 30 May 2006, the company announced a loss before tax of £14.9 billion for 2005, the biggest loss in British corporate history. The loss for the year from continuing operations was £17.2 billion and the bottom line loss for the financial year was £21.8 billion. The company was pushed into loss by impairment charges of £23.5 billion, which related to the acquisition of Mannesmann several years earlier, and losses of £4.6 billion in relation to its discontinued business in Japan. At an operating level it remained highly profitable, with an operating profit on continuing operations of £9.4 billion before impairment costs.

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  3. Celebrating 25 Years of SMS!

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  4. Vodafone and WIN make changing operator as easy as sending an SMS

    Explore Article gomonews.com (Jun 29 2010) Operator Services

    Vodafone and WIN make changing operator as easy as sending an SMS Mobile operator Vodafone has just announced a new deal with WIN plc. This new service makes it possible for consumers to swi... (Read Full Article)

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  5. An Inconceivable Truth: MMS is a Global Success at 30B dollars

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    ...time in late Spring 2002, including CSL in Hong Kong, TeliaSonera in Finland, Telenor in Norway and Vodafone in Germany. Bear in mind that email was launched in 1971, so email is 39 years old today, and SMS w... (Read Full Article)

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  6. Everything you ever wanted to know about mobile, but were afraid to ask

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    ...nternet' experience on their phone was in fact a WAP experience. They don't even know it, but go to Vodafone's mobile internet home page, then click on Google and you're on Google's WAP based mobile internet ... (Read Full Article)

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  7. Indian mobile marketing market 101: Meet the Zoozoos

    Explore Article gomonews.com (May 19 2010) Mobile Marketing

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  8. Vodafone to launch the world’s cheapest phone in India

    Explore Article gomonews.com (May 13 2010) APAC

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  9. US physicist 'predicted about SMS in 1909'

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    ...neer called Neil Papworth sent the first text message saying "MERRY CHRISTMAS" to his colleagues at Vodafone, from a PC to a mobile phone on the Vodafone GSM network in the UK, according to the BBC. But it wasn't until 1999, that text messaging really t... (Read Full Article)

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  10. Mobile social networking doesn't really deal with networks very well

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    ...homescreen" which aggregates email and SMS and Facebook and Twitter and Ovi and Gmail and Skype and Vodafone 360 and Orange On and Apple MobileMe and all the rest.The usual metaphor is to have an icon or pict... (Read Full Article)

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  11. Analyst Angle: Mobile consumer content and applications finding play in the enterprise - RCR Wireless News

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    ... most of these stores. But little by little, service providers including China Telecom, Telefonica, Vodafone, and Orange have treaded into the application store waters. One might argue that service providers ... (Read Full Article)

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  12. Mobile Fees Under Pressure With Network Rollout - NYTimes.com

    Explore Article The New York Times (Mar 16 2010)

    ...E., or VoLTE, by March 2011. The group includes Verizon Wireless and AT&T; in the United States, Vodafone, Telefónica, Deutsche Telekom and Orange in Europe, NTT Docomo in Japan, and China Mobile. The stan... (Read Full Article)

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  13. Juicing Up the Networks | Wireless Week

    Explore Article Wireless Week (Mar 9 2010) Operator Services

    Juicing Up the Networks | Wireless Week ...hin its ILEC footprint as possible with fiber, using Ethernet for transport. Verizon’s co-parent, Vodafone, plans to use microwave technology that will carry high-speed Ethernet traffic. Clearwire is using ... (Read Full Article)

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  14. For Your Eyes Only - the three levels of customer behavior based data

    Explore Article Communities Dominate Brands (Mar 8 2010) SMS

    ...e giants like Google and Apple and Nokia want to get into this space. The big mobile operators like Vodafone, China Mobile, Telefonica etc are slow to capitalize on it but are trying to. And the various ad ag... (Read Full Article)

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  15. Mobile Content Bits: Vodafone/Foursquare, FoneStarz/Disney; 3UK/Warner Bros

    Explore Article mocoNews (Mar 4 2010) Mobile Applications , Operator Services , EMEA

    Mobile Content Bits: Vodafone/Foursquare, FoneStarz/Disney; 3UK/Warner Bros ...E: TWX) TV shows such as “Two and a Half Men,” “The Mentalist,” and “Friends.” Mobile Content Bits: Vodafone/Foursquare, FoneStarz/Disney; 3UK/Warner Bros * Comments Comments (View) * Text Size: A A * Print P... (Read Full Article)

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  16. Reality Check: Shifting dynamics in mobile application distribution and monetization

    Explore Article Mobile Technology (Mar 2 2010) Mobile Applications , Operator Services

    Reality Check: Shifting dynamics in mobile application distribution and monetization ...ext generation of app-stores. As evidenced through deployment of advanced operator services such as Vodafone 360 as well as the formation of strategic consortia such as LiMo, the Wholesale Applications Commun... (Read Full Article)

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