Vodafone UK Makes the Mobile Internet Free to use on Friday - So you can Plan the Bank Holiday on us

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 24th, 2009 TEL AVIV, Israel - Perfecto Mobile, a leading provider of remote access and automated testing solutions for mobile devices, today announced the launch of a new testing solution for Vodafone Widgets. The solution will enable Vodafone Widgets developers from all over the world to test whether their newly developed widgets work properly on a wide variety of real mobile devices.

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 26th, 2009 UTRECHT, The Netherlands - - Independent Figures and Testimonials Available to Everyone, Free of Charge Zoover.com, the largest holiday testimonial website in Europe which features more than three quarters of a million holiday reviews, introduces a new online gadget. Accommodation owners or webmasters of holiday websites can add this gadget, which keeps track of the average figure of all lodging and destination testimonials, to their own website.

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.

July 1st, 2009 NEWBURY, England - From this month, new and existing Vodafone customers will have an even wider choice of where they can purchase the best handsets and range of competitive tariffs in the UK. Vodafone UK will team up with Carphone Warehouse from 7 July so customers can not only buy pay as you go mobiles and receive upgrades as they do currently but also get new pay monthly contracts and mobile broadband connections.

June 30th, 2009 CAMBRIDGE, England - According to independent consumer website Broadband Genie, downloading one television show via mobile broadband while abroad on holiday could cost more than the rest of the trip combined. As the summer holidays get into full swing, Broadband Genie is keen to remind travellers the cost of using mobile broadband dongles abroad can be incredibly expensive.

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".

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.

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 Kolkata, Sept 8 (IBNS) Hyderabad-based 160by2.com, one of India’s largest free SMS service providers, for the first time in the country enables its consumers send free SMS from mobile phone. This service is available to mobile phones with Internet connectivity across India and to UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines.

September 20th, 2009 MELBOURNE - People of Victoria can do without sex, car or even a partner, but not the Internet, a new survey suggests. The Optus Family Communication Survey provided a list of things to the Victorians to choose without which they could survive for a month.

August 22nd, 2009 TAIPEI - China Mobile Ltd, the world's largest mobile phone carrier, has decided to pick Taiwan's electronics giant Hon Hai Group as its supplier of electronic readers, a top company official said Saturday. "We have picked Hong Hai Group to make electronic readers for us and we believe the electronic reader market will be huge," said Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, on the second day of his nine-day visit to Taiwan.

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

September 15th, 2009 After outcry, T-Mobile drops paper billing feeNEW YORK — T-Mobile USA has dropped a plan to begin charging customers $1.50 per month to get a paper copy of their bill in the mail. The wireless phone carrier had recently informed its 33 million customers that the fee would go into effect this past Saturday and apply to anyone who didn't sign up for a paperless billing plan, in which bills can only be viewed on the Internet.

February 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of State for Communications and IT Jyotiraditya Scindia Tuesday said the government has accepted the calling card proposal, which would offer flexibility to consumers to choose their carrier for making long-distance calls. 'The calling cards for both STD and ISD calls have been accepted, making it flexible for consumers to switch their carriers for long distance calls,' Scindia said at a conference here.

June 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Taiwanese handset major HTC Corp, in collaboration with Bharti Airtel, Tuesday launched HTC Magic, India's first smartphone that will run on Google's Android operating system. The device is priced at Rs.29,900 and will be available in Airtel relationship centres and authorised HTC resellers in 17 cities.