Vodafone UK
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has started a detailed Phase 2 investigation looking into Vodafone UK’s joint venture agreement with Three UK.
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Analysts and execs from the two mobile network operators have responded the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority’s decision to progress its review of the Vodafone/Three merger proposal to an in-depth phase 2 review.
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Max Taylor has been named as the new CEO of Vodafone UK. He will report to Ahmed Essam, who has held the role since 2021 but will now become executive chairman (Germany) and CEO, of European Markets.
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Vodafone and Microsoft have inked a 10-year strategic partnership to bring generative AI, digital services and the cloud to more than 300 million businesses and customers across Europe and Africa.
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Three UK has come under fire from UK union, Unite, for a $2 billion dividend payment made to its parent company, which is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
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ICG Real Estate has announced that its Strategic Real Estate team has purchased a portfolio of freehold digital infrastructure assets in Central London, which are let to Vodafone UK.
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The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) is seeking views on Vodafone’s merger with rival network Three.
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Vodafone has reported improved sales growth over the first quarter after increasing its prices.
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Visually impaired tennis fans will be able to watch matches from anywhere on the court, courtesy of new technology from Vodafone and GiveVision.
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The potential merger between Vodafone and Three UK will shake up the battle to be Britain’s leading telecoms brand, new analysis from Brand Finance indicates.
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Vodafone and Three have announced their long-anticipated merger, claiming that a tie-up would be beneficial to customers, the country and competition, but not to China.
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Capacity speaks to industry experts on how the Vodafone/Three deal would affect the UK market and how likely it is to be approved.
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Three UK posted revenue growth of 5% to £610 million for Q1, 2023 as talks of a merger with Vodafone UK continue.
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Vodafone and Sumitomo Corporation has established a new standalone business to drive the development of the economy of things.
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Vodafone and CK Hutchison-owned Three UK are reportedly close to agreeing a merger of their UK telecoms businesses, in a deal worth around £15 billion.
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Vodafone will use artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and big data analytics to reduce carbon emissions across its network.
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Juniper and Vodafone along with Parallel Wireless has achieved a successful field trial, delivering Open RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) on a network.
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Vodafone has confirmed that it is in talks with Three UK to merge its UK operations.
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Xavier Niel, the founder and majority owner of Iliad has bought a 2.5% stake in Vodafone through his investment vehicle, Atlas Investissement.
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Vodafone and Virgin Media O2 have joined BAI Communications' (BAI) 4G and 5G-ready mobile network across London's underground tube network.
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Oracle will lead Vodafone UK’s network policy for its standalone 5G network, the operator has revealed.
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Vodafone UK is following the group’s German and Italian units by announcing plans to close down its 3G network.
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Frontier Communications, the US company that emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year, says it has added 45,000 fibre broadband customers in a single quarter.
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Vodafone is claiming that a new deal with CityFibre will make it the biggest full fibre provider in the UK.
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Frontier Communications has hired an executive with deep experience of retail and bankruptcy as its chief digital information officer.
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Vodafone and Mavenir said today they are working on a small cell solution based on open RAN technology, to provide indoor 4G connectivity for business customers.
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Frontier Communications has passed the last hurdle in emerging from last year’s bankruptcy, after the support of Californian authorities.
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CK Hutchison’s Three UK has emerged as leader for 5G availability in the country, ahead of BT’s EE, Telefónica’s O2 and Vodafone.
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The principal stage of The UK's long-awaited 5G auction has raised £1,356,400,000.
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UK mobile operators O2, Three and Vodafone will partner to build 222 new mobile masts to boost rural coverage across country.
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Satellite company OneWeb will be a completely wholesale operation from its commercial launch in October, the executive chairman has told Capacity.
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UK telecoms group Daisy has demerged its cloud business into a separate company, with investment from private equity fund Inflexion.
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Vodafone is using last year’s acquisition in the internet-of-things (IoT) business to support its plan to help reduce carbon emissions.
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Vodafone is to deploy open radio access network (open RAN) technology on 2,600 sites in the UK, one of the biggest such investments yet.
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The US has won its battle to make the UK ban Huawei from new 5G networks, the government announced today.
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Vodafone has become the first operator to test the Access Gateway Function (AGF) from Metaswitch, marking the industry’s first implementation of the 5G Wireless Wireline Convergence (WWC) AGF standard.
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The UK government has warned people in Britain that the EU’s law on free mobile roaming will cease to apply at the end of 2020.
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Vodafone UK has the opened the doors to its new digital hub in London to develop 5G technology that could be add £30 billion to the local economy by the year 2030.
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Vodafone is taking legal action against Ofcom, the UK regulator, over its decision to allow Openreach to charge more for leased lines.
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Vodafone has switched on its 5G network in seven cities across the UK and has claimed to be the nation's first provider to offer 5G roaming in four European countries over the summer.
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Onecom, a UK-based business telecoms provider, has entered into ‘the biggest ever’ partner deal with Vodafone UK.