Vodafone groups Plc is one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, it headquartered in London, and its registered office is Newbury, Berkshire, UK. Vodafone was a subsidiary company of “Racal Electronics plc”, and it was named “Racal Strategic Radio Ltd” until it became an individual company since September 1991. The name of Vodafone came from “voice date fone”. Vodafone was an advanced developer in the area of telecommunications, in 1992, on year after it de-merge from Racal, it got the world’s first international GSM roaming contract, and in 1994, it became the first network operator in the UK to launch date, fax and text messaging services over the digital network.
In recent years performance, Vodafone had a significant improvement, its revenues was 41bn pounds from 2008-2009, rose to 46.4bn pounds between the annual years 2011-2012. Vodafone’s internet covered around 30 countries with over 250,000 base station sites and it employed over 8,00 people across the UK. Vodafone’s share dividend rose around 74 % (compare the share dividend between 2008-2009 and 2011-2012), but dropped from 13.52p 2011-2012 to 10.19p 2012-2013.
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Vodafone sold 45% of its Verizon Wireless share, resulted a $130bn (80bn pounds) deal, recorded as the third biggest transaction between two companies. Part of the cash would be in shareholders’ pocket (54bn pounds), and Vodafone would allocate the cash remained into its 4G broadband internet
Currently, per an article on IDG New Service, Verizon has weathered the storms of a few years ago and is acquiring MCI in a deal that is valued at $6.7 billion. They feel this investment will allow them to grow into a position that will make them have a strong portion of the market share for communications and should give them a wider market base globally. They should acquire advanced broadband technology and services which should put them into a better position to serve a larger base of business and government customers, which was their goal several years ago. However, they face their nemesis of governmental involvement, this time through getting regulatory approval, which could take until 2006 to be achieved. Another reason Verizon has made this aggressive buy out is that their direct competitor, SBC is trying to acquire AT&T to grow in much the same way. They must feel that it is worth the expense to hold their market share globally.
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