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Articles tagged with: Arun Sarin and Verizon Wireless
Vodafone Seeking Closer ties with China Mobile and Verizon Wireless
Vodafone is seeking tighter cooperation between Verizon Wireless and China Mobile to cut network and handset costs, while also rolling out improved services for customers. Vodafone owns 45% of Verizon Wireless and holds a 3.3% stake in China Mobile. more
Related Tags: vodafone, lte, china-mobile, verizon, softbank, joint-innovation-lab, vittorio-colao, China
Mobile Broadband, M&A to Top Colao's Agenda at Vodafone
LONDON (Dow Jones) -- Top of Vittorio Colao's agenda when he takes over the reins of Vodafone Group in July will be driving wider adoption of mobile broadband and deciding which assets to buy in Asia and Africa, as the world's top mobile phone operator looks for ways to preserve global growth. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, etisalat, driving, reliance-communications, verizon, gartner, orascom-telecom, compete, vodacom, mobile-internet, vodafone-group, vittorio-colao, orascom, dubai, dubai, rcs
UPDATE: Vodafone Beats Revenue Guidance, No Sign of Slowdown
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Related Tags: asia-pacific, mobile-data, text-messaging, roaming, european-union, verizon-communications, hutchison
Vodafone Revenue Rises on Acquisitions, Foreign Exchange
LONDON (Dow Jones) -- Vodafone Group, the world's largest mobile operator, on Thursday said third-quarter sales rose 16%, boosted by recent acquisitions in India and Turkey and the strength of the euro against the pound. more
Related Tags: roaming, london, hutchison, essar, hutchison-essar
Verizon Wireless Confirms LTE for its Network Evolution
A few months after Vodafone's Arun Sarin said that he expects the US Verizon Wireless to adopt 3GPP LTE for its network evolution, the company has now outlined its plans to develop and deploy its fourth generation mobile broadband network using LTE. The selection of LTE provides Verizon and Vodafone - joint owners of USA-based Verizon Wireless - with an opportunity to adopt a common access platform that offers compatibility with the existing technologies of both companies. more
Related Tags: nortel, lte, chief-technology-officer, 3gpp, cdma2000-1x, cdma2000, ev-do, USA
Vodafone Sees Improved Opportunities in China
Vodafone expects to increase its presence in China following a long anticipate restructuring of the telecoms market by the government. Vodafone's chief executive, Arun Sarin told the London Financial Times that the group's stake in China Mobile - valued at around US$13 billion - is a "kitty" that could be used to take advantage of potential opportunities. more
Related Tags: china-unicom, 3g-license, china-mobile, china-telecom, london, 3g-licenses, China
UPDATE: Vodafone Upgrades Guidance As 1st Half Revenue Rise 9%
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Vodafone Shareholders May Reject Verizon Wireless Spinoff
LONDON (Dow Jones) -- Vodafone Group shareholders are likely to see off a call on Tuesday for the UK telecoms giant to split off its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless, the No. 1 mobile operator in the USA. more
Related Tags: at&t, verizon-communications
Vodafone CEO Sarin: US Operations Continue To Do Well
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Vodafone Group Chief Executive Arun Sarin said Thursday that Vodafone continued to derive value from its U.S. Verizon Wireless joint-venture despite recent shareholder criticism from a small activist group. more
Related Tags: vodacom, telkom, sfr, hutchison, essar, hutchison-essar
The Fastest Growing Operators in North America
The North American market had a particularly quiet quarter, with fewer than 6m new customers in all on a net basis. In this kind of environment, it is most unlikely that there would be any changes in the list of the largest operators, but the unlikely did in fact happen, with Bell Mobility dropping one place down the rankings from seventh to eighth. This was hardly a major change: it lost five thousand customers in the quarter and US Cellular, which had been breathing down its neck, added 16,000, to move ahead of its Canadian counterpart for the first time. The chart below shows the new pecking order, which is unchanged in all other respects. more
Related Tags: w-cdma, metropcs, leap-wireless, alltel, verizon-communications, bell-mobility, bell