Rebel investor seeks to turn up heat on Vodafone
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A small, rebel shareholder sought to  step up the pressure on Vodafone Group Plc  on Tuesday,  saying the British mobile phone company had no clear strategy  for its stake in U.S. joint venture Verizon Wireless.
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Vodafone is interested in more deals in emerging markets, the UK mobile phone group said on Tuesday as it reported a 4 per cent increase in operating profit in 2006-07.
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The Anglo-Dutch oil firm sets out to woo investors by explaining how it will boost its oil reserves.
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The activist investor looks to squeeze some more value out of the retailer's shares.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Under pressure to boost investor interest ahead of aA$30 billion share sale, Australia&#39;s largest telephone company Telstra Corp.
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Despite pressure from a shareholder group, Vodafone says it's 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless is too profitable to get rid of.
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Britain's Vodafone Group Plc VOD.L   launched the first of its own-branded 3G handsets on Thursday,   as the mobile phone giant tries to expand the market for   higher-paying 3G services by luring more prepay users.
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Vodafone yesterday announced plans to raise an additional Â£2.5bn a year through cost savings and increasing its market share within the next four years.
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The Anglo-Dutch oil firm sets out to woo investors by explaining how it will boost its oil reserves at an analysts' briefing on Wednesday.
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Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. , Southeast Asia's largest phone firm, said on Thursday it was unsure if Vodafone plc's  stake in India's Bharti  was up for sale and that it was premature to comment on possible talks. "It is our objective to increase our stakes in existing associates at the right terms and conditions, and Bharti is certainly one associate we are interested to increase our shareholding in," Chief Financial Officer Chua Sock Koong told a media briefing.
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Vodafone, which has some 330,000 customers in Queensland or about 10% of the state&#39;s mobile market, hopes the promotion will add 150,000 new customers or nearly 1% of Australia&#39;s 16 million mobile telephone users.
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TALK ABOUT HAVING a finger in every pie, Vodafone has come up with another software initiative to make mobile phones more advanced and cheaper to make for the business user.
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By Ravi Chandiramani  Vodafone has put its UK PA account - one of the most prestigious commercial lobbying contracts - up for grabs.
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BARCELONA/HONG KONG  - Vodafone shares climbed in early Monday trading after it beat rival suitors with an $11.1 billion bid for a controlling stake in Hutchison Essar, India's fourth-biggest mobile phone firm.
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Vodafone made good on its promise to return more cash to shareholders yesterday with a doubling of its half-year dividend and plans to buy back a further Â£2.2bn of shares over the next four months.
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(InfoWorld) - Vodafone Group had almost 200 million customers by Dec. 31, but continues to face challenges in the competitive and saturated European market. The operator's European business stagnated, with fourth-quarter revenue growing just 0.9 percent year on year, excluding the effect of acquisitions. Worldwide, its growth excluding acquisitions totalled 6.1 percent. The company accounts for revenue from partly-owned subsidiaries in proportion to its holding. Vodafone said that despite low growth in Europe, some of its new calling plans, such as one that offers users a lower price for calls made within their home area and others that include fixed-line broadband Internet access, are attracting new customers. Price competition, however, is offsetting that growth. Revenue from Vodafone's operations outside Europe, excluding acquisitions, grew 14.4 percent compared to a year earlier. Egypt, Romania, South Africa, and Turkey showed particularly strong growth during the period, Vodafone said. The operator offered no further insight into itsÂ negotiations to buyÂ a controlling interest in Indian operator Hutchison Essar. The board is continuing to investigate the possibility and will only agree to a deal that meets Vodafone's financial criteria, Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin said during a conference call to discuss the results. U.S. operator Verizon Wireless, in which Vodafone owns a stake, also did well during the quarter, with Vodafone's share of the business acquiring one million new customers. Vodafone is still pleased with its stake in Verizon Wireless, although the company uses a different wireless technology to that used by Vodafone's holdings elsewhere in the world. "There is no concept of our selling our interest there," Sarin said. While rumors have surfaced regularly over the past few years that Verizon Wireless might be considering a major technology change, that's still doubtful, Sarin said. Even Apple'sÂ much anticipated iPhone, which operates on GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), the technology that competes with Verizon's CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) network, is unlikely to encourage Verizon to make a change, Sarin said. The migration to fourth-generation networks, which operators will begin to make in the next few years, will probably cement Verizon's choice. "That's the time Verizon Wireless will think about what next generation of technology that they can deploy and of course they'll try to deploy a technology that is as backward compatible as they can," he said. Data services are also paying off for Vodafone. Non-voice average revenue per user was up 62 percent for the quarter compared to the year earlier. Vodafone has attracted 50 percent of its total customers to sign up for Passport, a plan that offers reduced rates on roaming. The European Commission is proposing a regulation that would require operators to reduce their roaming rates. Vodafone doesn't expect the commission to make a final decision until this summer, said Sarin.