Ingrid Lunden
Nov 22, 2010 5:47 PM
Blyk, the mobile ad company that started as a “free” MVNO for 16-24 year-olds, may have found its original business model hard to execute in Europe, but it didn’t give up on it altogether: it has now launched services in India, partnering with local operator Aircel. And once again, it…
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Robert Andrews
May 18, 2010 11:10 AM
Smartphone handsets fueled the money Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) makes from internet data to £4 billion ( billion) during its 2009/10 fiscal year - nearly a fifth more than in the previous year. Across that year, group profit rebounded 180 percent to £8.6 billion ( billion), recovering from last year’s £5.9…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 9, 2009 8:01 AM
Former Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) CEO Arun Sarin is back at private equity house Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, six years after he first left the firm for the telco.
Sarin, who left the Vodafone helm last year, will be a senior advisor at the firm, his original role there.
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Dianne See Morrison
Oct 27, 2008 4:40 PM
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), which operates as Vodafone Essar in India, is seeking to postpone the country’s 3G auctions, currently scheduled for December. The reason? The global financial crisis, reports the Economic Times. In a communication sent to India’s Department of Telecom (DoT)Emerging markets director Neil Gough said, “Mobilising financial commitments…
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