Mobile carriers including China Mobile, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone have launched a new initiative to promote the 4G (fourth-generation) network technology LTE TDD as a global standard.
Vodafone Group grew its revenue for the fiscal year ended March 31, helped by increased data usage, but profit was hit by problems primarily in Spain, the company said on Tuesday.
Vodafone Group has taken an impairment charge of £2.3 billion (US$3.3 billion) on its Indian operation, saying that the issue of six new national mobile service licenses, after its entry into the Indian market in 2007, had led to "intense price competition".
Vodafone ended on Friday a fractious relationship with its Indian joint venture partner, Essar Group, but will end up paying more than earlier planned for the partner's 33 percent stake in the mobile joint venture, Vodafone Essar.
O2, Orange, and Vodafone will conduct joint U.K. trials of a new mobile broadcast technology called Integrated Mobile Broadcast (IMB), which will let the operators offer better mobile TV and radio services, they said on Tuesday.
Vodafone has received a tax demand of Indian rupees 112.2 billion (US$2.5 billion) from India's Income Tax Department in connection with the company's $11 billion payment in 2007 to Hutchison Telecommunications International for a 67 percent stake in joint venture Hutchison Essar.
Vodafone Group has objected to plans by Essar Group, its Indian joint venture partner, to merge its telecommunications holding company with another listed company, as it could push up the price Vodafone may have to pay later this year to buy out Essar's stake in the joint venture.
The dispute between Vodafone and Telkom South Africa over shareholding in Vodacom Group seems to be dying down after the South African government yielded and accepted Vodafone's latest bid.
Mobile phone operator Vodafone Group expects underlying operating profit to remain flat or decline in the coming year, even though the company is ahead of its plan to cut £1 billion (US$1.5 billion) in annual costs by 2011, it said Tuesday.
India's Supreme Court has ruled that Vodafone did not have to withhold tax from Hutchison Telecommunications when buying its stake in 2007 in Indian mobile operator, Hutchison Essar, Vodafone said on Friday.
Vodafone reported a 2.3 percent drop in revenue for the last three months of 2011, as economic conditions, particularly across southern Europe, continue to be weak.
Verizon Wireless will join the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) created by China Mobile, Softbank and Vodafone to help standardize mobile application development and get new software out to mobile users more quickly.
Verizon's joint venture partner in wireless, Vodafone, needs more convincing before endorsing Verizon Wireless' plan to extend the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) standards work.
The United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Foundation's Technology Partnership is expanding its mobile health (mHealth) program to 22 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
In an unexpected turn of events, members of parliament were recalled for an emergency session Tuesday to debate the sale and purchase agreement covering Vodafone's acquisition of 70 percent of the shares of Ghana's telecom provider.