Vodafone
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Vodafone has quietly spent the first half of April buying back tens of millions of its own shares in a sustained campaign that began just days after disclosing its total voting rights to the market. -
A recent tribunal decision in the case of Vodafone Ltd v Icon Tower Infrastructure Ltd & AP Wireless (II) UK Ltd is sending ripples through the telecoms and property law communities, offering important takeaways for landowners looking to remove telecoms equipment from their sites.
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Germany’s competition watchdog has accused Vodafone and Vantage Towers of anti-competitive behaviour, alleging the pair have deliberately obstructed rival operator 1&1 from accessing antenna sites they were contractually promised in 2021.
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Vodafone has joined an initiative aimed at using its mobile network to provide more accurate rain nowcasting.
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Vodafone Group has consolidated its procurement company and voice and roaming services divisions into a single entity called Vodafone Procure & Connect.
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Google Cloud struck partnerships with major European telcos at MWC to support network transformations and data architecture overhauls.
Forthcoming events
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The iliad Group has submitted a proposal to Vodafone Group for the merger of iliad’s and Vodafone’s Italian businesses with the creation of a new entity (NewCo).
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Vodafone will partner with Accenture to commercialise its shared operations and accelerate growth.
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Vodafone and Nokia will pilot a commercial 5G Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) trial in Italy for the first time.
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Vodafone and its African subsidiary Vodacom plan to use the service as part of Project Kuiper’s 2024 Beta testing of the network
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First application will be to help better monitor cargo tracking pods
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The deployment will occur over several Vodafone markets in Europe, including the UK and Italy
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Exa Infrastructure has named Nick Read, former chief executive of Vodafone, as its chairperson.
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e& will take a seat on the Vodafone board as the relationship between the two continues to expand.
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The switch off from 3G will begin next month after a successful pilot earlier this year.
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Vodafone has confirmed the appointment of Margherita Della Valle as its permanent CEO, months after the CFO took the reins as interim chief.
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Vodafone and IBM are urging companies in the telecoms supply chain to make sure they are ready for the post-quantum world.
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Vinod Kumar, who joined Vodafone as CEO of its business unit in 2019, is to leave the group.
