Posts Tagged ‘vodafone’

Britain’s Vodafone is planning to close its 755 million pounds final salary pension scheme to around 4,000 of it’s employees, the Financial Times reported.

India’s 11 biggest phone companies, including Bharti, Reliance Communications Ltd and Vodafone Group Plc’s local unit, are cutting prices to as low as one cent a minute to match offers by newcomers such as NTT DoCoMo Inc.

AP – Telecommunications company Vodafone Group PLC on Tuesday reported a 15 percent increase in first-half net profit. Results were boosted by favorable currency movements, lower taxes and expansion at its Verizon Wireless venture in the U.S.

Reuters – Nokia has started deliveries of its new top-of-the-range model N900, a key product for the world’s top phone maker in its battle against rivals iPhone and Blackberry.

India’s tax department said on Friday it had issued a show-cause notice to Vodafone for default of non-deduction of tax.

Reuters – Vodafone Egypt said on Tuesday it expected to add 100,000 mobile broadband customers in 2009, taking its total broadband client base to 160,000.

Macworld.com – I admit, sometimes I forget the iPhone is a phone. When a couple voicemails didn’t show up recently, I thought nothing of it until a friend asked me if I’d gotten his message—people just don’t call me that often

AFP – Vodafone on Tuesday became the latest mobile phone operator to announce it will begin selling iPhones in Britain following the expiry of O2′s exclusive deal with Apple.

Reuters – Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile operator by revenue, will sell the Apple iPhone in Britain from 2010, it said on Tuesday, finally sealing a deal to sell the popular phone in one of its biggest markets.

Reuters – Vodafone announced a new Internet service on Thursday, offering access to a host of integrated social networks and applications, in its fight to grow data revenues and compete with smartphones like the iPhone.