Vodafone is a mobile network operator headquartered in Newbury, Berkshire, England. It is the largest mobile telecommunications company in the world based on revenue, with over £31 billion in revenue and equity interests in 25 countries. Vodafone has over 200 million customers across 5 continents, making it the second largest mobile telecom group in the world behind China Mobile. The company was founded in 1983 as Racal Telecom and became independent in 1991, choosing the name Vodafone to reflect its provision of voice and data services over mobile phones.

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Abhijeet S VODAFONE - COMPANY PROFILE -
September 14th, 2010
VODAFONE
Founded 1983 as Racal Telecom,
independent 1991
Headquarters Newbury, England, UK
Operations Manager
at Management
Paradise Key people Arun Sarin, CEO
Sir John Bond, Chairman
Institute: VIDYAVARDHINIS
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
AND TECHNOLOGY John Buchanan, Deputy Chairman
Status: Offline
Posts: 7,051 Andy Halford, CFO
Join Date: May Industry
2010
Mobile telecommunications
Products
Mobile networks, Telecom services, Etc.
Revenue
▲ £31.104 billion GBP (2007)
Net income
▼ £-1.564 billion GBP (2007)

2. Slogan
Make the most of now (in many countries,
their previous slogan, How are you?, is still
used)
Website
www.vodafone.com
Vodafone is a mobile network operator
headquartered in Newbury, Berkshire,
England, UK. It is the largest mobile
telecommunications network company in
the world by turnover and has a market
value of about £100 billion (December
2007).
Vodafone currently has equity interests in
25 countries and Partner Networks
(networks in which it has no equity stake)
in a further 39 countries. The name
Vodafone comes from Voice data fone,
chosen by the company to "reflect the
provision of voice and data services over
mobile phones."
At 31 January 2007 Vodafone had 200
million proportionate customers in 25
markets across 5 continents.
("Proportionate customers" means, for
example, that if Vodafone has a 30% stake
in a business with a million customers, that
is counted as 300,000). On this measure it

3. is the second largest mobile telecom group
in the world behind China Mobile.