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Encyclopedia > Vodafone United Kingdom

Vodafone's corporate is the outline of a card
Vodafone's corporate logo is the outline of a SIM card

Vodafone is a multinational mobile phone operator with headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom and Düsseldorf, Germany. It is the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world, with equity interests in 26 countries and Partner Networks (networks in which it has no equity stake) in a further 14 countries. Vodafone logo This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... A logotype, commonly known as a logo, is the graphic element of a trademark or brand, which is set in a special typeface/font, or arranged in a particular, but legible, way. ... SIM re-directs here; for alternate uses see Sim (disambiguation) A SIM card taken from a GSM mobile phone A subscriber identity module (SIM) is a smartcard securely storing the key identifying a mobile subscriber. ... A multinational corporation (MNC) or transnational corporation (TNC) is one that spans multiple nations; these corporations are often very large. ... A mobile phone operator (also wireless carrier) is a telephone company that provides phone services for mobile phone subscribers. ... For other places called Newbury, see Newbury. ... Düsseldorf in Germany The Düsseldorf Coat of Arms Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. ...


At the end of 2004, Vodafone had approximately 152 million customers worldwide. Vodafone is listed on the London Stock Exchange as Vodafone Group (LSE:VOD.L  (http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=VOD.L)) and New York Stock Exchange, symbol VOD. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building The London Stock Exchange (abbreviated LSE) is a stock exchange market located in London. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the second largest stock exchange in the world. ...


Vodafone stands for VOice-DAta-FONE.

Contents
1 Management
2 Vodafone in Europe

2.1 History

3 Vodafone in Asia-Pacific

3.1 History

4 Vodafone in the Middle East and Africa

4.1 History

5 Vodafone in the United States
6 Corporate sponsorship
7 References
8 External link

Management

Lord MacLaurin has been Chairman of Vodafone, the global mobile phone operator, since June 2000. ... Categories: Indian people stubs ...

Vodafone in Europe

Vodafone currently operates in the following countries in the European region:

Proximus, also known as Belgacom Mobile, is the largest 2G GSM and 3G UMTS operator of Belgium. ... CYTA (short for CYpriot Telecommunication Authority, ATHK in Greek) is the main operator of phone, Internet (CytaNet) and mobile communications (CytaMobile, operated by Vodafone) in Cyprus. ... A finnish GSM operator founded in 19. ... Og Vodafone is a telephone company in Iceland that is franchise of the Vodafone network. ... Vodafone Ireland, part of the Vodafone Group, is the largest mobile phone company in the Republic of Ireland, and was previously called Eircell. ... Vodafone Netherlands, part of the Vodafone Group is the second largest mobile phone company in The Netherlands, and was previously called Libertel. ... Plus GSM is the brand name of Polands mobile phone network operator, Polkomtel. ... Connex GSM is Romanias second-largest mobile phone network operator. ... Si. ... Swisscom AG is the largest telephone company of Switzerland. ...

History

  • 1985-01-01: First phone call on Vodafone United Kingdom's Analogue network. This event was staged, due to a network failure; the first calls actually being made the next day
  • October 1991: Racal Telecom is demerged from Racal Electronics and becomes Vodafone Group.
  • June 1992: Vodafone Germany's (still as "Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH") network went live.
  • July 1992: Vodafone United Kingdom's GSM network went live.
  • September 1992: Vodafone Sweden's network went live.
  • October 1992: Vodafone Portugal's (still as "Telecel, Comunicações Pessoais, SA") network went live.
  • July 1993: Vodafone Greece's network went live.
  • July 1993: Vodafone Ireland's GSM network went live.
  • September 1995: Vodafone Italy's (still as "Omnitel") network went live.
  • November 1995: Vodafone Spain's (still as "Airtel") network went live.
  • 2000: Vodafone took over German mobile network operator Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmBH & Co KG. The deal is one of the largest in European history.
  • 2001-04-16 First 3G voice call on Vodafone United Kingdom's 3G network.
  • 2001: Vodafone took over Eircell, then part of Eircom in Ireland and rebranded it Vodafone Ireland.
  • 2001-2002: Vodafone acquired Japan's third largest mobile operator J-Phone, which had introduced camera phones first in Japan.
  • 2002: Vodafone rebranded Japan's J-sky mobile internet service as Vodafone live!™ as its mobile customer portal
  • 2004: Vodafone introduced 3G services into Europe.
  • 2005: Vodafone increased its participation in Romania's Connex to 99%. Vodafone also bought Czech mobile operator Oskar.

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Vodafone in Asia-Pacific

Vodafone currently operates in the following countries in the Asia-Paficic region:

Vodafone K.K. (ボーダフォン株式会社), also known as Vodafone Japan, is the Japanese branch of mobile phone operator Vodafone. ... Vodafone K.K. (ボーダフォン株式会社), also known as Vodafone Japan, is the Japanese branch of mobile phone operator Vodafone. ... Smartone (數碼通) is a mobile phone operator in Hong Kong. ...

History

  • July 1993: BellSouth New Zealand's network went live.
  • October 1993: Vodafone Australia's network went live.
  • July 1994: Vodafone Fiji's network went live.
  • November 1998: Vodafone purchased BellSouth New Zealand, and it became known as Vodafone New Zealand.
  • 1999-2000: J-Phone launched the J-sky mobile internet service in response to DoCoMo's i-Mode service.
  • December 2002: J-Phone's 3G network went live.
  • October 1st 2003: Vodafone changed the name of it's Japanese subsidiary from J-Phone to 'Vodafone', and the name of J-Phone's mobile internet service from J-Sky to Vodafone Live!
  • April 2005: Smartone changed the name of it's brand from Smartone to 'Smartone-Vodafone'

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Vodafone in the Middle East and Africa

Vodafone currently operates in the following countries in the Middle East and Africa region:

History

  • May 1998: Vodafone Egypt network went live under the name ClickGSM.

Vodafone in the United States

In the United States, Vodafone owns 44% of Verizon Wireless, the country's second largest mobile carrier. However, the phone company (Verizon) owns a majority of Verizon Wireless and Vodafone's branding is not used, nor is the network compatible with GSM phones. Verizon Wireless was the largest wireless phone company in the United States, before Cingulars acquisition of AT&T Wireless. ... This article or section should include material from Bell Atlantic This article or section should include material from GTE Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) is a local exchange telephone company formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic, a former Bell Operating Company, and GTE, which was the largest independant local exchange...


Corporate sponsorship

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References

External link


Mobile phone networks by region (list)
Multiregional: Vodafone | T-Mobile | Orange | 3 | TIM | movistar | Virgin Mobile | Boost Mobile
Africa MTN | V-Mobile | Vodacom
Asia Pacific Optus | Orange Australia | Telstra | China Mobile | China Unicom |
NTT DoCoMo | Airtel | BSNL | Reliance Infocomm | Telecom | Globe Telecom
Europe SFR | Bouygues Telecom | E-Plus | Pannon GSM | Meteor | Wind | KPN | Telfort | MTS | BeeLine | O2 | Connex Romania
North America Bell Mobility | Cingular | Fido | Verizon Wireless | Rogers Wireless | Sprint PCS | Nextel | ALLTEL | Western Wireless | TELUS | Sasktel | MTS
South America Vivo | Claro | Oi
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