British Vodafone launches 5G in Germany
Undercuts Deutsche Telekom
The UK's Vodafone is launching 5G services in Germany, undercutting Deutsche Telekom by offering cheaper deals and reaching more cities.
Vodafone to merge Italian telco masts with Telecom Italia
Aims to revive debt riddled Italian outfit
A deal to merge Vodafone’s tower infrastructure in Italy into INWIT, the mast group 60 percent owned by Telecom Italia (TIM), will be signed by the summer.
UK gets July 5G launch date
Vodafone is the first
Vodafone has announced that its 5G network will go live on the 3rd of July, making it the first to set a hard date for the launch of its next-gen mobile network.
Vodafone wants German government to invest in pipes
Needs to invest in the last mile
Vodafone wants the German government to install empty pipes in the ground to allow "last mile” network work to be quick and cheap for suppliers.
Huawei denies existence of ‘backdoors’ in Vodafone gear
US press goes mental over security issues resolved in 2011 and 2012
Huawei has denied Vodafone’s claim to have found backdoors in its Italian fixed-line network.
O2 and Vodafone include 5G in their UK sharing deal
Look out BT
O2 and Vodafone have turned the thumbscrews on the British market leader BT by extending their network sharing deal to cover 5G.
BT, Vodafone and IBM link cloud systems for business
Support 5G
BT and Vodafone are teaming up with IBM to offer businesses a way to link different cloud computing systems.
Vodafone thinks annoying customers will wage war against Iliad
Personal data is a Trojan Horse
Vodafone, the company which annoys its Italian customers by cold calling them with automatic dialiers, is hoping to avoid a price war with new comer Illiad by using customer data.
Vodafone drops roaming charges
All roads lead to roam
Vodafone has dropped roaming charges and will allow its punters to use your bundled minutes, texts and data in 40 countries without paying more.
Vodafone does well thanks to Italy and Germany
Europe looking good
In a slap in the face for Brexit, British mobile phone outfit Vodafone reported a better-than-expected 4.3 percent rise in core earnings in the first half of the year, helped by improving trading in big European markets like Germany and Italy.