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22 unusual facts about Vodafone


Altes Stadthaus, Berlin

Some financing was contributed by British mobile phone company Vodafone, which paid 100,000 marks for a giant red advertising banner that concealed the scaffolding around the tower for a year.

Angul

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, or BSNL, as well as private enterprises, among them Vodafone, Bharti Airtel, Reliance, Idea Cellular, Aircel, and Tata DoCoMo, are the leading telephone, cell phone and internet service providers in the town.

Antex

In 1997, the company took over the administrative operations of Olivetti-Omnitel (Vodafone) Group.

Baseball Victoria

The Baseball Victoria Summer League was formed in 2010 by Baseball Victoria and replaced the former Victorian State League and the Vodafone State League.

Bromyard Town F.C.

Delahay Meadow is unusual in having a mobile phone mast on site, for which the club receives ground rent from Vodafone.

Daniel Caverzaschi

He is sponsored by Vodafone, Madrid Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion, and his "old school in Madrid" which provides him financial support.

Ghana Space Science and Technology Centre

The GSSTC space agency's first flagship project is the Ghana Radio Astronomy Project which will see the abandoned Vodafone earth satellite station at Kuntunse, near Accra into a radio astronomy telescope.

Home-Start International

In 2007-08 major funders include The Oak Foundation, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation.

Indus Towers

Vodafone Group offers telecom services in India under the brand name "Vodafone", Bharti Group under the brand name "Airtel" and Aditya Birla Group offers its services under brand name "Idea".

International telecommunications routes

For example, A agrees to terminate one million minutes of B's of French Orange Mobile traffic and B agrees to terminate half-a-million minutes of A's UK Vodafone traffic – the difference in volumes reflecting the difference in the official costs of terminating the traffic.

Javier Carballo

In 1999 creates Loyalt-eCommerce, Internet portal that will become later the professional services website of the company of telecommunications Vodafone.

John Caudwell

Whereas Dunstone’s success was forged in the retail side of cellular, the Caudwell empire was built on the success of wholesaling with 20:20 Distribution – which became one of the largest handset distributors in Europe – and Singlepoint, an airtime reseller for Vodafone.

Jose Ignacio Sanchez Galan

In 1995, he was appointed CEO at the newly created Airtel Móvil (today Vodafone Spain), which opened up the telecommunications sector in Spain to competition.

Lance Batchelor

Prior to his current role Batchelor was a divisional CEO at Tesco, Marketing Director of Vodafone, a GM at Amazon.com, and a Marketing Director at Procter & Gamble.

Lara Bingle

Bingle signed a one-year deal in 2008 with international phone company Vodafone as one of their official ambassadors.

Peter-Service

Nowadays the list of Peter-Service's Customers comprises more than 50 operators in Russia, CIS and Europe, including Multiregional Transit Telecom, MegaFon, Mobile TeleSystems, Rostelecom, SkyLink, Peterstar; operators of Svyazinvest and foreign operators: Kyivstar, Vodafone Romania, Turkcell, 21st Century Technologies Limited Nigeria and others.

Ratingen

Several important international enterprises (particularly from the IT industry) as Vodafone, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, CEMEX, Tiptel and Esprit maintain branches and/or main centers in Ratingen.

Rifat Atun

He has led research and consultancy projects for organizations such as Pfizer Inc., the Vodafone Group, Hofmann La Roche, PA Consulting and Tata Consulting Services.

Super 5

The information may also be obtained from one of Maltco Lotteries' points of sale; and also by Vodafone's SMS Flash, Go Mobile's IOD, Go Plus' Tellme service, and TVM's teletext.

The Krion Conquest

Fourteen years later, the mobile phone version was released by Genki Mobile through Vodafone service exclusively in Japan on Jan 14, 2004.

The MobileStore

The MobileStore retails mobiles of domestic and international brands like Apple, HTC, BlackBerry, Samsung, Micromax, Maxx, Karbonn Mobiles, Motorola Spice, Sony Ericsson, Vodafone and others.

Vodafone Hutchison Australia

The joint venture entity is owned by Hutchison Telecommunications Australia (a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa) and by Vodafone Group plc on a 50-50 basis.


2000 Italian Grand Prix

The 2000 Italian Grand Prix (formally the LXXI Gran Premio Vodafone d'Italia) was a Formula One motor race held on September 10, 2000 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza near Monza, Italy.

A.S.D. Cervia 1920

Associazione Calcio Dilettante Cervia 1920 (formerly known also as Cervia Vodafone) is an Italian football club located in Cervia, Emilia-Romagna.

Anna Angelina Wolfers

Her face became famous through ads and commercials for companies like Vodafone (2004) Pizza Hut (2008), REWE (since 2009) and McDonald's (2011).

Arun Sarin

Sarin will be retiring from Vodafone immediately after the company's AGM on July 29, 2008, when he will be succeeded by current Deputy-CEO Vittorio Colao.

Bag Raiders

It charted at No. 38 on the official German Singles Chart on 6 June 2011 after being used in the German Vodafone TV advertisement and later rose to its peak No. 19.

Billysi

Urška wrote and performed a song with cooperation of Blue Production Team for a TV commercial for the Slovenian mobile operator Si.mobil (Vodafone).

CANTAT-3

During that time, the Icelandic universities and hospitals in Akureyri and Reykjavík relied on emergency connectivity obtained via local internet providers Síminn and Vodafone.

Economy of North Rhine-Westphalia

These include many international global players such as 3M, BP, Ericsson, Ford, LG Electronics, QVC, Sony, Renault, Toyota, and Vodafone.

Glasgow Film Office

Programmes including Taggart and Rebus, and advertisements for global companies like Sony and Vodafone, have placed the locations of Glasgow on the world map.

Gordon Torr

He spent three years as Creative Director of JWT Mexico, based in Mexico City, before transferring to London as Global Creative Director of De Beers and, subsequently, of Diageo, Kellogg’s and Vodafone.

Kharagpur

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, or BSNL, as well as private enterprises, among them Vodafone, Bharti Airtel, Reliance, Idea Cellular, Aircel, and Tata DoCoMo, are the leading telephone, cell phone and internet service providers in the city.

Leon Yohai

InternetQ was among the first few mobile content firms globally to introduce premium SMS services with top class telecom providers such as WIND, Vodafone and Cosmote.

Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India

Some Indian newspapers also commented on the fact that Looking East to Look West beat a book by Gurcharan Das which was also short-listed for the Vodafone Crossword non-fiction award.

M-Pesa

S Batchelor (Gamos) and N Hughes (Vodafone CSR) discussed how a system of money transfer could be created in Kenya.

Mannesmann

The acquisition was led by Vodafone's Chief Executive, Chris Gent, and Goldman Sachs' Scott Mead, who was then the chief advisor on the deal.

Pride Magazine

Whilst many magazines have come and gone over this period, Pride has been the only stable strong title in this category and has over its 18 years become the dominant title in this market and been one of the few niche titles that attracts mainstream advertisers of the likes of Ford and Vodafone.

Rottenbuch Radio Tower

The Rottenbuch Radio Tower is a transmitting tower of the Vodafone company in Rottenbuch, a part of the municipality of Peiting near Schongau in Germany.

Safaricom

It is widely believed that the former regime arm twisted Vodafone to shed off the 5% as a kickback to high-ranking officials in the regime.A WikiLeaks report stated that it was once owned by Nicholas Biwott,Charles Fidel Marshall,Gideon Moi and The Post Office.

Sandip Das

In 2007, following the likes of Vodafone’s Arun Sarin and Orange’s Sanjiv Ahuja, India boasted another helmsman in the International Telecoms Space when Sandip Das was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Maxis Communications Berhad, the largest telecommunications operator in Malaysia.

Superdistribution

Over 280 models of telephones support superdistribution based on OMA DRM; companies such as Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom have been exploring it.

Telecommunications in Germany

Mobile phone market in Germany is dominated by 4 main cellular operators: T-Mobile (subdidiary of Deutsche Telekom), Vodafone and Telefónica Germany (O2), which since 2013 owns E-Plus.

User System Interaction

These projects have been carried out in organizations like Philips, Microsoft, Vodafone, Océ, Novay, KPN, Lucent, and Ericsson, among others.

VHA

Vodafone Hutchison Australia, a company formed in 2009 by the merger of Vodafone Australia and Hutchison 3G Australia

Vodafone Greece

As of 2003, Vodafone has had an exclusive contract with popular pop musician Sakis Rouvas as the spokesperson for the company in the Greek advertising campaign.

Vodafone Hungary

In October 2007, Vodafone signed a sponsorship contract with the Hungarian Water Polo Association and Tamás Kásás.

Vodafone Italy

The company's spokesmodel from 1999 to 2006, for both Omnitel and Vodafone, was Australian model Megan Gale.

Voice short codes

Voice short codes are available across all the UK mobile network operators - namely Vodafone, 3, EE, Virgin Mobile and O2.