Vodafone Group News

Based on the iPhone's current growth trajectory, it could catch and surpass Nokia for the top spot in the global smartphone market by 2013.

In a potentially ground-breaking move, Sprint Nextel Corp. said it will hand over day-to-day management of its networks to Sweden's Ericsson in a deal worth as much as $5 billion over seven years.

Vodafone and Huawei jointly announced July 9 that Vodafone has selected Huawei as the exclusive supplier for its 2G/3G networks in the Czech Republic.

Vodafone said during the Wireless 2.0 summit in Bristol last week that it plans on waiting until 2012 before deploying LTE, however, the company will benefit from an inside track on progress by its joint venture with Verizon Wireless , which plans to roll launch LTE in 2010.

HARTFORD Conn., and PUNE, India, July 6, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- DiviNet, a leading provider of Internet Protocol Television solutions, and Keisense, an innovative provider of user interface technologies for consumer electronic devices, today announced the successful integration of Keisense's ConnecTiVi into DiviNet's IPTV network.

Despite the year-on-year decline IPO activity quarter to quarter increased in the region.

New analysis from Wireless Intelligence reveals that the top 20 mobile operators and operator groups ranked by total connections represented over 58% ofglobal mobileconnections in Q1 09.

European stocks rose, with the Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index rebounding from its first back-to-back weekly declines since March, as health-care and telephone shares gained.

Deal marks end to three-year stand-off prompted by Voda's exclusivity deal with Phones4U.

Earlier reports claimed Vodafone could also be in the running for the troubled mobile operator.

Vodafone will return to Carphone Warehouse on Thursday almost three years after it withdrew its mobile phone contract offerings from Carphone's stores in favour an exclusive deal with the retailer's bitter rival Phones4U.

Deutsche Telekom AG is in discussions with European telephone operators, including Vodafone Group Plc , to sell its U.K. mobile-phone division, three people familiar with the talks said.

The Amazon Kindle, a success if you believe the buzz around the device and some of the numbers analysts have come up with, is looking to expand internationally, and, as a part of that, Germany, Europe's biggest book market, is believed to be among the first of those new target markets.

Vodafone's share price rose 1.14% Monday on news that it is exploring a bid to buy T-Mobile U.K. in a move that would make it the U.K.'s largest mobile phone operator.

The dollar rose against the euro and the yen after China ruled out any a oesudden changesa to its foreign-reserves policy.

The U.K.'s Vodafone, the world's largest mobile operator by revenue, is exploring an acquisition of T-Mobile UK, which has an estimated enterprise value of 3 billion euros to 4 billion euros , even though a deal could be blocked by regulators, the Financial Times reports.

Mobile USA is unveiling new details today about its second phone based on the Android operating system.

As the rush to launch app stores risks a nuclear arms race in app standards , Vodafone is almost alone in placing faith instead in the one great standard digital media already has - the web .

Vodafone Global Enterprise introduced a service that which combines and simplifies the management of fixed and mobile telecoms for multinational customers.

European vendor to acquire Canadian rival's CDMA business. Nortel Networks Corp.