When was vodafone founded

The conglomerate was subsequently broken up and all manufacturing related operations sold off. On 28 July , the Company reverted to its former name, Vodafone Group plc. In , the Company acquired Eircell, the largest wireless communications company in Ireland, from eircom. Eircell was subsequently rebranded as Vodafone Ireland. The new concept involved the introduction of Vodafone international services to the local market, without the need of investment by Vodafone.

The concept would be used to extend the Vodafone brand and services into markets where it does not have stakes in local operators. Vodafone services would be marketed under the dual-brand scheme, where the Vodafone brand is added at the end of the local brand.

The acquired operations formed the nucleus of a new Unified Communications and Collaboration practice within its subsidiary — Vodafone Global Enterprise, which will focus on implementing strategies and solutions in cloud computing, and strengthen its professional services offering. In October , Vodafone began its rollout of 4G to provincial New Zealand, with the launch of the system in holiday hotspots around Coromandel.

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Vodafone signs a partner agreement with MTC, the leading mobile operator in Kuwait. Vodafone increases shareholding in Telecel to In June, Vodafone announces the sale of stakes in Mexican and Indian operators.

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The company pioneered information services for users such as the Automobile Association's 'Roadwatch' and the Financial Times ' 'CityLine. Vodafone Group International was a rapidly growing component of the group. Active in seeking opportunities and implementing projects abroad, Vodafone International looked likely to one day be as important to the group as Vodafone Ltd.

In the company was awarded a license in Australia to operate that country's third digital mobile telephone network. In the same year consortia of which Vodafone was a member received similar licenses to operate in Greece and Germany. Although start-up costs for foreign ventures were obviously high, the field was very lucrative, and Vodafone was continually on the lookout for new possibilities.

Analysts predicted that Vodafone would increase its investments with the aim of acquiring more foreign associates and, eventually, subsidiaries. A digital system that allowed international calls between participating countries was introduced in the early s.

In the company acquired a ten percent stake in Globalstar, an international consortium formed to develop a satellite-based network that would allow mobile telecommunications to operate everywhere in the world except the polar ice caps by As of , Vodafone operated one of the world's largest cellular networks, with over one million subscribers. This, combined with the company's increasingly high international profile, made it a safe bet that Vodafone would continue its prominent role in the expanding mobile telecommunications industry.

The Mail on Sunday confidently predicted in 'We're on the verge of a communications explosion. By , nearly all of us will have a phone in our pocket. Digital phones took some time to catch on due to a limited service range and reliability problems; they accounted for only 13 percent of mobile phones in Britain in However, the new wave of digital entrants did force Vodafone and other analog providers like Cellnet to trim their pricing somewhat.

Earnings for the fiscal year ending March fell four percent in the face of stiff competition from Orange and OneOne. However, Vodafone's foreign operations soon began to post positive results. Thanks to its profitable operations at home, the concept of credit remained foreign to Vodafone until July , when it sought European capital to increase its stake in France's number two mobile phone provider, SFR.

It paid FFr 1. Vodafone also had equity positions in a number of other European and Asian cellular companies. He had never attended college but won a reputation as a shrewd businessman in the banking and computing industries. The company introduced a new corporate identity in the summer of , uniting the six cellular providers it had acquired Vodac, Talkland, Vodacom, Vodacall, Astec, and People's Phone under the Vodafone brand.

Vodafone began to restructure its network, laying off employees. Its retail outlets dropped competitors' products after the change. The success of OneOne and Orange prompted regulators to allow Vodafone and top rival Cellnet relative freedom. All four providers promoted heavily during the Christmas season, each hoping to ensure its fair share of the widening market. The fastest growing segment--low-income clients--was being accommodated through pre-payment plans.

Beginning January 1, , subscribers became able to retain their phone numbers after switching providers. On the same date, 11 European countries introduced the Euro currency unit, making cross-border acquisitions theoretically more attractive. However, Telecom Italia's shareholders still chose the hostile offer Italian typewriter manufacturer Olivetti tendered in February over the friendly one of Deutsche Telekom largely due to nationalistic sentiment.

It would be a few months before Vodafone exploited the possibilities of the redefined European financial environment. Meanwhile, it merged with U.