Vodafone

Vodafone Group plc, a British company, the world's largest by volume sales cellular operator. Headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire County. History Founded in 1983 under the name Racial Telecom, first call the analog network, starting 1 January 1985. In 1991, Racial Telecom company stands out and is renamed the Racial Electronics Vodafone Group. Name acronym data.XML FONE VOice (phone) in July 1992, the first GSM network Vodafone in the UK. History The largest shareholders of the company — AXA S.A. (5.81), Legal & General Group Plc (4.53). capitalisation of the company in mid-July 2008-$ 136 billion Alexander Silony. $ 2 billion to buy shares of//the Gazette No. 136 (2158) 24 July 2008Predsedatel′ Board of Directors, Sir John bond. General Director – Vittorio Kolao thumb. Activities On 31 December 2008 Vodafone services of mobile communication 260.5 million users (the second in the world after China Mobile) in 25 countries worldwide. Even in 42 countries Vodafone is a partner in the network over which it does not have full control. In six countries, the company had more than 10 million subscribers (United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, Turkey, Spain and Italy). The Vodafone works through Verizon Wireless, which has a minority stake (44.4%). Financial indicators of Vodafone owns several minority shares which are not included in the consolidated financial statements. For more information about the size and growth of business, the company publishes data on the proportion of income ". For example, if traffic business where it has a 45% stake, is £ 10 million Vodafone will be proportional to the income of £ 4.5 million. Proportional income is not a commonly accepted measure of financial reporting and hence proportional income should be compared with Vodafone normal income from other companies. Vodafone also publishes the prorated subscription base on the same principle, that is, if the operator in which it has a 30% stake, has 10 million subscribers, this corresponds to 3 million proportionate customers Vodafone. It is generally accepted practice in the mobile telecommunications industry. Year ending 31 March Income £ billion Profit before tax of £ billion annual profit £ billion in dividends per share (pensions) subscriber base (m) 2008 35.478 9.001 6.756 12.56 260 2007 31.104 2.383 5.297 8.94 206.4 2006 * 29.350 14.835 (21 821) (35.01) 170.6 2005 34.073 7.951 6.518 9.68 154.8 2004 36.492 9.013 6.112 8.70 133.4 * losses, March 31, 2006 reflected the write-off of assets in connection with the absorption of Mannesmann. Proportional income includes £ 7 100 million from ended operations. Vodafone in Europe Vodafone operates in the following European countries (the number of subscribers at December 2005): Country Name network owned by number of subscribers share on the market; Place local competitors Austria A1 38.0% 7%; 1/4 T-Mobile, one 3 Azerbaijan Azerfon-vodafone 0% 3%; 4/4 Azercell, Bakcell Vodafone Albania 99.9% 919.000 48%; 2/2 AMC Belgium Proximus applications 0% 48.7%; 1/4 Base, Mobistar Mobiltel Bulgaria 0% 's, 000 52.5%; 1/4 GloBul, Vivatel United Kingdom Vodafone 16,939 000 100% 24%; 2/5, O2, T-Mobile, 3, Orange UK Vodafone Hungary 100% 2,134 000 21.41%; 3/3, T-Mobile, Pannon Germany Vodafone (D2) 100% 30,622 000 35.64%; 2/4 T-Mobile, E-Plus, O2 Greece Vodafone (Panafon) 99.9% 4,955 000 35.6%; 2/4 Cosmote, TIM Hellas, Q-telecom Denmark TDC Mobil 0% 41.4%; 1/4 Sonofon, Telia, 3 Vodafone Ireland (Eircell) 100% 51%; 2,178, 000 1/4, O2, Meteor, 3 Vodafone (Og Vodafone Iceland; Tal, Íslandssími) 0% 35%; 2/2 Síminn, Sko, HIVE Spain Vodafone (Airtel) 100% 14,464 000 33.1%; 2/4 Orange, movistar, Yoigo Italy Vodafone (Omnitel) 76 86% 35%; 20,129, 000 2/4 TIM, Wind, 3 Cyprus Cytamobile-Vodafone 0% 89%; 1/2 Areeba 2/3 Optimus, TMN Vodafone Romania (Connex) 100% 7,717 000 45.4%; 2/5 Orange, Cosmote, Zapp Mobile Northern Cyprus KKTC Vodafone 100% no data? 2/2 KKTCell Slovenia Si. mobil-Vodafone 0% 24%; 2/3 Mobitel Vodafone Turkey (Telsim) 100% 24%; 12,748, 000 2/3 Turkcell, Avea Finland Elisa Oyj (Radiolinja) 0% 30%; 1/3 of Sonera, Finnet France (European part) SFR 43% 17,101 000 (30 June 2005); 36% 2/3 Orange, Bouygues Télécom Croatia VIPnet 0% 42%; 2/3 T-Mobile, Tele2 Vodafone CZ (Oskar) 100% 2,413 000 19.62%; 3/3, O2, T-Mobile Sweden Telenor (Vodafone; Europolitan) 0% 16%; 3/4 Telia, Tele2, 3, Swisscom Switzerland 0% 62%; 1/3 Orange SA, TDC, Tele2 Estonia Elisa Eesti AS 0%?%; 1/3 of Tele2, EMT * Operator, more than 50% owned by the parent is a child of the society; When ownership of less than 50% of the operator is considered to be an affiliate. Operators, whose shares are owned by Vodafone are partners. In October 2007, the company sold its offices at Tele2 Spain and Italy, Vodafone for 775 million euros "Kommersant", "Tele2 sold units in Italy and Spain, 8 October 2007. Comments Links The official website Category: disambiguation Category: mobile operators Category: Vodafonear: vodavon bn: ভোডাফোন ca: Vodafone cs: Vodafone da: Vodafone de: Vodafone el: Vodafone en: Vodafone es: Vodafone eu: Vodafone fi: Vodafone fr: Vodafone ga: Vodafone hi: वोडाफोन एस्सार hu: Vodafone id: Vodafone is: Vodafone it: Vodafone ja: boodafonn ko: bodapon lt: Vodafone ml: വോഡാഫോ ms: Vodafone ne: भोडाफोन nl: Vodafone Group no: Vodafone pl: Vodafone pt: Vodafone ro: Vodafone sah: Vodafone simple: Vodafone sr: Vodafone sv: Vodafone ta: வோடபோன் tr: Vodafone zh: wodafeng