As it stands right now, Verizon holds 55-percent of Verizon Wireless, with Vodafone holding the other 45-percent. According to some sources who spoke to Reuters, Verizon is looking at buying out Vodafone's stake to take full control of Verizon Wireless. Assuming Vodafone is approached by Verizon, nothing says it will need to sell, however, or that it will be interested in doing so.
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Verizon considering Vodafone stake buyout, says sources
Verizon and AT&T tipped for joint Vodafone bid [UPDATE]
If you thought yesterday’s April Fool’s Day mess of rumors was hard to swallow, you’re really going to have a difficult time with this tip: Verizon and AT&T have been reported to be jointly buying Vodafone. This absolutely wild possibility comes from The Financial Time’s Alphaville where they’ve got what they say are “usually reliable people” suggesting a “breakup bid” for Vodafone between AT&T and Verizon. It’s also been said that such a purchase would include a 40% premium on Vodafone’s current stock price, this giving the company an enterprise value of right around $245 billion USD.
Verizon considers buying out Vodafone’s share of Verizon Wireless
Verizon is juggling its options to see how it should proceed with its joint venture with Vodafone. The two companies formed Verizon Wireless around 13 years ago. Verizon Wireless is now one of the top mobile service providers in the United States, and its shares are currently at $47.69 and are still growing. Apparently, since December, Verizon has been considering the future of its company and it's debating whether or not to completely merge with Vodafone, or to buy out Vodafone's share in Verizon Wireless.
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iOS 6.1.1 gets Vodafone all-clear for iPhone 4S problem
The iOS 6.1.1 update Apple released yesterday has fixed the iPhone 4S connection problem users of some European carriers were reporting, with Vodafone giving subscribers the green-light to upgrade if they hadn't already. "Please download the latest version from Apple as soon as you can" Vodafone said in an advice statement to customers today, ZDNet reports, "as this will deal with these issues." Vodafone UK users, among others, had complained that since updating to iOS 6.1 late last month, they'd experienced problems with calls, texts, and internet access.
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Samsung Tizen phone tipped for 2013 with DoCoMo & Vodafone
Samsung and a number of global carriers will launch the first Tizen smartphone in 2013, with NTT DoCoMo, Vodafone, and France Telecom all expected to jump on board with the open-source alternative OS. While HTC, Panasonic, ASUS, Acer, Huawei and others have all voiced interest in developing Tizen devices, according to The Yomiuri Shimbun's sources it will be Samsung that pushes the first handset running the MeeGo-reborn platform out of the door.
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UK 4G bidders revealed: Vodafone, O2, Three & EE all want airwaves
Telecoms regulator Ofcom has announced the seven bidders in the UK 4G spectrum auction, with the process itself set to kick off in January 2013 and networks potentially switching on midway through next year. Vodafone, Hutchinson 3G (aka Three), and Telefonica (aka O2), are all among the bidders, as well as Everything Everywhere which is currently the only UK network to offer commercial LTE service through its EE brand.
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Vodafone Sure Signal 2 sheds bulk but fills 3G blackspots for more users
Vodafone UK has outed its second-generation Sure Signal, squeezing the femtocell down into a wall-wart scale casing to boost network performance in low-signal areas. The new version - considerably smaller than the router-sized first-gen Sure Signal - features a pass-through power socket and can give a full set of bars to up to eight devices simultaneously, by re-routing them over your broadband connection.
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Vodafone announces Smart Tab II at an impressive price
Vodafone has announced that it has a new tablet powered by Lenovo available for consumers to buy. The tablet is the 7-inch Vodafone Smart Tab II. The tablet is powered by the Android operating system and has integrated 3G and Wi-Fi technology.
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Vodafone Red Hot offers smartphone swap-out every 12 months
Upgrading to the latest smartphone every so often is appealing for the gadget-obsessed but expensive, and so Vodafone UK has kicked off a device leasing scheme that it hopes will scratch that update itch. Red Hot offers some of the coveted handsets of the moment on a borrowing-basis: keep the phone - Vodafone is offering the iPhone 5, Galaxy S III, and Galaxy Note II in its initial range - for twelve months and then swap it for a new model at the end of that time.
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EE: Our LTE-complaining rivals made the wrong decisions
Under fire from rivals unhappy at it taking the lead, UK 4G network EE has shot back with suggestions that Vodafone and O2 could have been LTE competitive had they planned ahead properly. Speaking at a pre-launch benchmarking session, EE director of network services and device development Tom Bennett dismissed complaints by the carrier's competitors as being selective with the facts, arguing instead that lack of investment is to blame for their being behind.
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The 4G migraine: iPhone 5 highlights scrappy LTE
Patchy coverage; fragmented frequencies; tight-lipped and cautious carriers: the iPhone 5‘s LTE may be one of the headline features, but it’s also causing the most confusion. As predicted, Apple threw in support for LTE networks across the globe in the new smartphone, though it was forced to use three different versions to do so. Even those three may not be enough to satisfy everyone, however: there are some significant holes for high-profile carriers.
Vodafone iPhone 5 nano SIMs prematurely pictured (but was it on purpose?)
Vodafone UK has readied 500,000 nano SIM cards suited for Apple's iPhone 5, with the carrier briefly spilling the SIM stockpile stat in a post on its official blog. That post - since yanked (though Google's cached version reveals all) - claimed that "the first devices have now been announced" that use the new nano SIM size, though of course that's not actually the case; in fact, the first such phone is all but certain to be Apple's new iPhone, and that gets its official reveal tomorrow.
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