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News highlights for 15 November 2017 Israel joins queue to tax internet giants JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel is planning to send tax bills within a year to internet companies Google and Facebook, financial newspaper TheMarker reported on Wednesday, joining efforts by several countries, including the European Union, to get the internet giants to pay more […]
LONDON (Reuters) – “The future is exciting. Ready?”, Vodafone is asking in a new campaign it hopes will capture a sense of optimism about technology, an association mobile operators have to some extent lost in recent years to the likes of Facebook, Google and Apple. The slogan, which replaces “Power to You”, in use since […]
Georgina is currently far from Jolly, due to incompetent customer-handling processes and outrageous customer support charges from Vodafone UK. A year after the mobile giant was slammed for a rise in complaints due to the introduction of a new billing system, why has it – and the rest of the industry – not learned the […]
HONG KONG/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Investment banking business in India should be enjoying bumper fees after a record year of dealmaking. It’s not, and big banks blame in-house teams of advisers that have proliferated as the country’s top family-owned conglomerates tighten their grip. This week’s $23 billion tie-up between Idea Cellular, controlled by the Aditya Birla […]
LONDON (Reuters) – British mobile operator Vodafone risks being left on the sidelines as rivals converge to break free from just selling ever-cheaper data bundles and become internet companies offering combined services from phones to TV to broadband. Vodafone expanded at breakneck speed through audacious takeovers and now has nearly half a billion mobile customers […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Vodafone, the world’s second-biggest mobile operator, said on Thursday that the rate of growth in its international business division had slowed, echoing a similar warning given by British rival BT last week. BT, Britain’s dominant fixed-line telecoms operator that provides networked IT and cloud services to companies and governments around the world, […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has fined Vodafone a record 4.6 million pounds ($5.60 million) for “serious and sustained” customer failures, including not updating accounts when mobile phone users topped up their credit to make calls. Vodafone, the world’s second-largest mobile operator, also failed to act quickly enough to identify or address the problems, the regulator […]
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Vodafone’s $7.2 billion cash injection into its Indian business has turned up the heat just days ahead of an $84 billion airwave auction which could decide who wins and loses in one of the world’s fastest-growing telecoms markets. Spending may fall well short of that huge target. But, industry insiders and advisers […]
Vodafone has published its annual IoT Barometer, and the results look promising for the IoT. The report found that 28 percent of organizations already use IoT, with another 35 percent saying that they are less than a year away from launching their own IoT projects. Over 75 percent of respondents believe that the IoT will […]
BARCELONA (Reuters) – The chief executive of Vodafone underlined the benefits of the company’s plan to work with Liberty Global in the Netherlands, an arrangement being closely watched by analysts and investors who hope the two firms will one day reach a wider deal. Vodafone was in talks last year with John Malone’s Liberty about […]
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