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Retail Asia25/03/2019

India’s Vodafone Idea has awarded Nokia a contract to improve the operator’s LTE coverage and capacity. Under the contract, Nokia will provide Single RAN Advanced, massive MIMO and small cell technology across multiple Indian telecoms circles to support the operator’s network consolidation and modernization program. The small cell deployment will help improve both indoor and outdoor coverage and capacity in […]

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Retail Asia22/03/2019

Vodafone Fiji is investing $207 million Fijian dollars ($96.9 million) to expand its LTE-Advanced coverage to around 96% of the population, from the current 60%. The operator has announced plans to expand the coverage of its “4G plus” network to almost all of Vanualevu, Tavueni, Rabi and the Laucala Island. The 5G-ready upgrade will also […]

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Retail Asia18/03/2019

India’s Vodafone Idea has announced it has doubled 4G download speeds in the Mumbai metro area as part of a major network modernization program in the city. The operator is deploying new technologies in the metro area including Massive MIMO, small cells and more TD-LTE cell sites, and has so far deployed more than 5,000 such sites […]

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Retail Asia07/03/2019

Vodafone Idea has contracted Ericsson to deploy 5G-ready LTE equipment as part of its network consolidation and modernization program. Under the agreement, Ericsson will help integrate the networks of the merged Vodafone India and Idea Cellular. As part of the contract, Ericsson will supply radio systems and transport equipment from its 5G-ready Ericsson Radio System […]

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Retail Asia24/10/2018

Samsung Electronics announced that it has acquired Barcelona-based artificial intelligence startup Zhilabs in a bid to further enhance its 5G capabilities. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Zhilabs will be fully owned by Samsung, but it will continue to operate independently under its own management, the South Korean vendor said in a statement. Zhilabs provides […]

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Retail Asia16/10/2018

India’s telecoms sector is facing at least three more quarters of losses due to the ongoing price war, according to industry body the Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI). The Indian GSM industry body’s director general Rajan Mathews told that he believes the market’s current tariffs are unsustainable in the long term. The industry’s woes are being […]

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Retail Asia19/06/2018

Indian telecoms industry body COAI has appointed Vodafone India managing director and CEO Sunil Sood as chairman and Bharti Airtel COO Ajai Puri as vice chairman. Sood was vice chairman of the industry body for the last two years. He succeeds Bharti Airtel MD and CEO for India and South Asia, Gopal Vittal. Puri has been with Bharti Airtel since 2004 […]

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Retail Asia24/05/2018

After much delay, Axiata Group Bhd is positive that the merger between its Indian associate company Idea Cellular Ltd and Vodafone India will materialise by the beginning of the third quarter of this year, as just two more approvals are required. Speaking to reporters after the group’s AGM yesterday, Axiata president and group CEO Tan […]

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Retail Asia17/04/2018

New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has filed 27 charges against Vodafone New Zealand, accusing the operator of engaging in false and misleading conduct with its FibreX hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) service. The charges filed in the Auckland District Court allege that Vodafone NZ has been misleading customers since October 2016 by using the name FibreX in […]

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Retail Asia04/04/2018

Vodafone India has taken another step towards the closure of its planned merger with Idea Cellular, after the company completed Tuesday the sale of its standalone tower business to ATC Telecom Infrastructure Private Limited (ATC) for 38.5 billion rupees ($592.9 million). The company announced in November 2017 that it plans to sell its tower business along with Idea Cellular’s […]

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Retail Asia03/10/2017

Vodafone Australia has joined rival Optus is testing massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology, and plans to start rolling it out from 2018. The operator announced a recent successful trial of Massive MIMO in the 1800-MHz FDD band. The trial, conducted with Huawei in a suburb of Sydney, used 20 MHz of 1800-MHz spectrum to achieve a peak […]

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Retail Asia26/07/2017

The Competition Commission of India has approved the proposed merger between Indian operators Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, which would create the market’s largest mobile operator by subscribers. The regulator has cleared a proposal that would see Vodafone initially holding a 50% stake in the combined company, Idea’s major shareholder the Aditya Birla Group holding […]

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Retail Asia05/07/2017

New Zealand telecoms operators are entering the race for IoT, with Vodafone and Spark both announcing they will soon roll out IoT networks in the country using low-power, wide-area networking (LPWAN) technologies. Following initial tests with technology partner Nokia last September, Vodafone NZ said it will deploy a narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) network early next year to support an […]

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Retail Asia18/05/2017

Vodafone Group has swung to a €6.1 billion ($6.76 billion) full-year loss as a result of a €3.7 billion writedown on its Indian operations. Vodafone India recorded an impairment of loss of €4.51 billion for the financial year as a result of the anticipated impact of the entry of Reliance Jio Infocomm into the market […]

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Retail Asia21/03/2017

India’s second and third ranked mobile operators, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, have revealed plans to merge to create the India’s largest operator by market share. The companies have announced that Vodafone will combine its Vodafone India subsidiary with Idea Cellular in a deal worth around $23 billion. The combined company will have around nearly […]

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Retail Asia24/02/2017

New Zealand regulator the Commerce Commission has declined to approve the proposed merger between Vodafone New Zealand and SKY Network Television on competition grounds. The commission held that a merger between the companies would negatively impact competition in the premium sports content market. “The proposed merger would have created a strong vertically integrated pay-TV and […]

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Retail Asia20/02/2017

Vodafone India and Idea Cellular are reportedly on the verge of finalizing the terms of a major merger that would create India’s largest operator by subscribers. The operators are expected to finalize the agreement within a month and could be ready to announce a deal by the end of the week. Vodafone Group has brought […]

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Retail Asia19/01/2017

Vodafone Australia has promoted its director of sales, Ben McIntosh, to the newly created position of consumer business unit (CBU) director. Chief executive officer Iñaki Berroeta said the new position merges the existing sales director and marketing director roles, following a decision by chief marketing officer Loo Fun Chee to return to Malaysia for family. […]

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Retail Asia11/01/2017

Vodafone is reportedly considering pursuing a merger of its Indian mobile business with a rival operator to help better compete in the intensively competitive market and survive the price war triggered by the entry of Reliance Jio Infocomm. The operator is looking into a potential merger with either Jio or major rival Idea Cellular, sources […]

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Retail Asia08/01/2017

Vodafone India has reportedly handed Nokia a multi-year contract extension worth €200 million ($210.5 million) covering the delivery of managed services in multiple telecoms circles. The scope of the contract has been expanded to cover managed services for 14 of India’s 22 telecoms circles, and field operations in the remaining eight, citing a person familiar […]

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