Vodafone UK Adds Carphone Warehouse for New Connections and Extends Agreement With Phones4U

September 28th, 2009 NEWBURY, England - Vodafone and Apple today confirmed that they have reached agreement to bring iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS to the UK and Ireland in early 2010. Beginning today, Vodafone UK and Vodafone Ireland customers can register their interest in iPhone shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/mobile-phone/iphone-3gs3G and iPhone 3GS at www.vodafone.co.uk/iphone and www.vodafone.ie/iphone, respectively.

September 23rd, 2009 LONDON and NEW YORK - - U.S. Care Covers Launch Set For January 2010 Brand Connections Global today announced that Vodafone has renewed their campaign as the inaugural advertiser for the launch of an innovative new in-flight advertising medium.

September 22nd, 2009 LONDON - - Vodafone Foundation Gives 500 People the Power to Make a Difference Today The World of Difference UK programme, delivered by the Vodafone Foundation, launches today to give 500 people the power to make a difference by putting something back into the community. The two month programme gives people the opportunity to take a paid placement with a UK charity of their choice.

August 31st, 2009 READING, England - With clients such as Ebay, Google, Sony Music and Carphone Warehouse, Essence has firmly established themselves as an innovative and creative full service digital marketing agency providing services to some of the world's most dynamic brands. They join a growing list of digital marketing agencies that have chosen DediPower as their primary managed hosting provider.

August 26th, 2009 NEWBURY, England - - Internet Browsing and Webmail on Your Mobile Free to use all day Friday 28th August - Plan Your Journey, Check the Weather, or Stay in Touch With Friends on Facebook Vodafone customers will be able to browse the internet and pick up emails on their mobiles for free all day on Friday 28 August. The normal 50p daily flat rate will be waived from 12.01am to 23.59pm on Friday.

August 2nd, 2009 LONDON - - Every Time you top up, We'll Give you 10% Back - For Example, top up GBP10 and we'll put an Extra Pound in to Your Vodafone Bonus Bank From 29th July, Vodafone UK pay as you go customers will be rewarded for their loyalty with Vodafone Bonus Bank. Every time a customer tops up, we'll give 10% back.

July 21st, 2009 NEWBURY, England - Vodafone customers will be able to access Facebook for free on their mobile or their computer using Vodafone's mobile broadband service for a whole week starting on Friday 24th July. Giving customers free access to Facebook is part of Vodafone UK's Free Friday series, which launched with Free Mobile Internet in May to mark the start of a flat daily rate of just 50p to browse the mobile internet, and continued with Free Music Friday in June when Vodafone became the first mobile operator in the UK to launch DRM free music.

July 12th, 2009 NEWBURY, England - Vodafone UK is the first UK network operator to offer the Samsung NC10 ultra-mobile netbook with built-in mobile broadband connectivity. Free on both a 24 month contract for GBP25 a month with 1GB of data and a 24 month contract for GBP30 a month with 3GB of data, the Samsung NC 10 netbook has a Vodafone SIM and mobile broadband software pre-installed meaning customers won't need to use a USB modem to connect to the web.

June 16th, 2009 NEWBURY, England - Vodafone Global Enterprise- - the division of Vodafone which manages the communications needs of the largest multinational companies worldwide - announces the launch of Vodafone telecoms management, a new service which combines and simplifies the management of fixed and mobile telecoms. Vodafone telecoms management is a fully hosted service designed to remove the operational complexity of managing the telecoms environment for multinational businesses.

June 3rd, 2009 NEWBURY, England - Customers can download free tracks to mark the launch of unlocked music from Vodafone UK. - Download some of the biggest music releases free on June 5 - Music from Vodafone UK is no longer restricted to one device - Vodafone UK customers can now play music on their mobile, MP3 player, iPod or PC - Customers can use their PC to make browsing, buying and listening to music even easier via Vodafone's Vodafone Music Manager Eight free tracks from major international artists will be available tomorrow for free to Vodafone customers for a "Free Music Friday".

March 27th, 2009 LONDON - British glamour model Danielle Lloyd is suing a phone company after it was discovered that one of its employers had allegedly downloaded explicit photos from her mobile. Lloyd, 25, said that she had left her old phone at her local branch of Carphone Warehouse after buying a new one, so that data could be transferred.

January 18th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Vodafone Essar, one of India's leading cellular service providers, has crossed the 7.5 million subscriber mark in Gujarat, a senior official of the company said Monday. Vodafone with a coverage in more than 236 cities and towns and 15,120 villages has seen its subscriber base jumping from 2 million in January 2006 to 7.5 million in January 2009 in the state.

September 9th, 2009 Cisco reappoints former Vodafone CEO to boardSAN JOSE, Calif. — Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - British telecom giant Vodafone Monday said it will continue to invest heavily in India. 'We see an addition of eight to nine million mobile subscribers here.

July 24th, 2009 Vodafone Q1 revenue up 9.3 percentLONDON — Vodafone Group PLC said Friday that first-quarter revenue rose 9.3 percent to 10.7 billion pounds ($17.7 billion) on the strength of exchange rate movements and acquisitions. On an organic basis, which strips out currency effects and acquisitions less than two years old, revenue for the quarter ending June 30 was down 2.1 percent as the recession across Europe weakened demand.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government has sought clarification from three private sector telecom operators for not reporting income from selling handsets along with their connections, a union minister said Monday. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has sought clarification from Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Esar and Idea Cellular for not showing income from bundling handsets along with connections, for the purpose of calculating revenue share payable to the exchequer, Minister of State for Communications and IT Gurudas Kamat told the Lok Sabha.

September 30th, 2009 Congress adds on to stopgap funding billCongress on Wednesday sent President Barack Obama a one-month stopgap spending bill to keep the government from shutting down with the start of the new fiscal year on Thursday. The legislation: — Funds the government at current levels through Oct 31, with exceptions permitted for the census and veterans medical services.

June 17th, 2009 Greeks to register prepaid cell phonesATHENS, Greece — Greece's prepaid mobile phone users will now have to register their identities in a bid to tackle illegal immigration and other crime, the communications minister said Tuesday. Evripidis Stylianidis said widespread anonymous cell-phone ownership made crime-fighting more difficult.

September 14th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - People having illegal water connections in Punjab's rural areas could soon find their supply drying up. The Punjab water supply and sanitation department Monday warned people to immediately remove illegal water connections or be prepared to face legal action, as well as disconnection of supply.

July 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's telecom industry continued its robust growth story in June by adding 11.91 million new subscribers to take the total subscription base to 464.82 million, a government statement said Thursday. The number of total subscribers in the country as on June 30, 2008 was 325.78 million.