Vodafone

Greener, cheaper, what's not to love about a secondhand smartphone?

Price tag, hardware durability underpinning 'already lengthened replacement cycle'

Personal Tech26 Feb 2024 | 44

UK merger of Vodafone and Three in competition watchdog's crosshairs

Union claims corporate greed behind alliance, firms claim it is about helping customers

Networks26 Jan 2024 | 23

Vodafone signs a 10-year, $1.5B deal with Microsoft that sheds European DCs

AI for customers and staff, while Euro bitbarns shifted to Azure

PaaS + IaaS16 Jan 2024 | 17

Unite the union claims Vodafone and Three merger is about 'corporate greed'

Flags up potential job cuts, price hikes, and national security issues

Networks14 Dec 2023 | 26

Mid-contract telco price hikes must end, Ofcom told

Which? and Uswitch call on UK regulator to tackle specter of bigger bills for Brits come April

Networks03 Nov 2023 | 85

Vodafone and Wi-Fi vendors play tug of war over 6 GHz

Everyone's wanting a slice of this spectrum pie

Networks26 Oct 2023 | 14

Brit competition regulator will make or break Vodafone and Three union

Interested parties invited to speak now or forever hold your peace

Networks12 Oct 2023 | 45

Vodafone to fast-track Arm-based OpenRAN for mobile networks

Working with Ampere and others in modular approach

Networks10 Oct 2023 | 5

Vodafone claims first space-based 5G phone call – no modifications needed

The roaming charges must be out of this world

Networks21 Sep 2023 | 13

Vodafone and Amazon shoot for the stars while Kuiper satellites remain grounded

Bezo birds to provide a mobile backhaul. When they finally launch

Networks05 Sep 2023 | 4

HSBC banks on quantum to lock down comms network

Meanwhile, Vodafone worries about sci-fi tech's potential to break encryption

Networks06 Jul 2023 | 5

Vodafone offers '5G Ultra' to users of very specific phones in very specific locations

'It will likely be unnoticeable for many consumers' says analyst

Networks26 Jun 2023 | 19

It’s official: Vodafone and Three to tie the knot in the UK

Smile and say '5G' – CK Hutch and Voda group couple up in MergeCo

Networks14 Jun 2023 | 47

Telco giant Vodafone to cut 11,000 staff as part of its turnaround plan

Company 'more complex' than it needs to be, thousands set to lose jobs

Networks16 May 2023 | 42

Vodafone tests waters with 5G Raspberry Pi base station

Prototype private network uses single board computer with software-defined radio circuit hardware

Networks22 Feb 2023 | 24

Not satisfied with Virgin Media and O2 merger, Liberty Global takes 5% Vodafone stake

Looks financially driven, says analyst, but don't rule out bigger moves in future

Networks14 Feb 2023 | 8

Vodafone's software-defined silicon bet signals a biz model shakeup

It's not through Intel, which remains quiet on plans to enable chip features via code

Networks27 Oct 2022 | 7

Vodafone to move SAP S/4HANA ERP system to Google Cloud

Spare a thought for the techies hauling on-prem mega-platform of one of world's biggest mobile companies to the fluffy stuff

Databases17 Oct 2022 | 18

Vodafone and Three's UK arms locked in merger talks

Regulators might have thing or two to say. And analysts warn of post consolidation price rises

Networks03 Oct 2022 | 33

Vodafone picks Google for MLops project that self-serves models in minutes

Teradata, Oracle Cloud still play a role in carrier's data-wrangling plans

AI + ML07 Jul 2022 |

Microsoft investigates Lapsus$'s boasts of Bing, Cortana code heist

Updated If boasts are legit, Windows giant will join Nvidia, Samsung, others as victims

Security21 Mar 2022 | 5

Shut off 3G by 2033? How about 2023, asks Vodafone UK

Says it'll be 'asking customers' to make sure own phones support 4G, and to check on friends, family

Networks25 Jan 2022 | 81

Insurance firm Admiral fails to grab phone location data of 'fraud' claimant's mother

Plus: Quad9 loses German DNS-blocking injunction pause attempt

Legal17 Dec 2021 | 49

3.4 billion people live within range of a mobile network but lack a device to make the connection

ITU and UN think inclusivity may now trump connectivity; Vodafone agrees but fancies more 4G

Networks21 Sep 2021 | 16

Watchdog slaps down Three's claims to be building the UK's 'fastest 5G network' – again

Company can't seem to help running its mouth, despite ASA's ruling last year

Networks21 Jul 2021 | 18

UK's Vodafone network runs trials on standalone 5G in London, Manchester and Cardiff

These are networks that are not dragged down by LTE core

Networks24 Jun 2021 | 10

Vodafone names vendors tapped for Britain's first wide-scale OpenRAN build: NEC, Dell, and Samsung

The big get Huawei: telco starts to rip and replace Chinese network maker's kit

Networks14 Jun 2021 | 4

Vodafone building world-girdling hybrid analytics apps capable of slurping 50 terabytes a day

Promises personalised services, software-driven networks, all the fun of an SAP migration to Google cloud

Off-Prem04 May 2021 | 7

UK carriers open their wallets as regulator Ofcom doles out more slabs of 5G spectrum

Netting £1.35bn for the Treasury

Networks17 Mar 2021 | 6

Vodafone on mega Euro masts biz: From our Vantage point, we want €2bn+ from towers IPO

Sales of €950m in shares already agreed as float day looms

Networks09 Mar 2021 | 2

Vodafone chief gushes over OpenRAN, says commercial deployments to start this year

But still some way to go before standards-based tech can match mainstream products

Networks09 Mar 2021 | 6

London calling: 5G coverage in British capital grew during second half of last year with fastest speeds on Vodafone

O2 regained lost ground, while EE continued to assert its dominance

Networks20 Jan 2021 | 10

Vodafone launches platform that promises to play nicely with dusty legacy IoT kit

What untold treasures could these primitive technologies hold?

Edge + IoT24 Nov 2020 | 4

As nearly everyone stays home for the pandemic, plunge in overseas charges dents Vodafone's revenues

Dare we say... telco fiddled while roam burned?

Personal Tech16 Nov 2020 | 8

Vodafone bets big on OpenRAN as it replaces its Huawei estate in rural Wales and South West England

'The technology works. There's still a lot of development that needs to happen, but it does work'

Networks02 Nov 2020 | 9

UK regulator Ofcom to ban carriers from selling locked handsets to make dumping clingy networks even easier

First you could break up by text – next year you can take the phone with you

Networks27 Oct 2020 | 31

Scre-EE-m if you wanna go faster: BT's mobile network reigns supreme in UK-wide speed and latency tests

But Vodafone's not far behind

Networks25 Sep 2020 | 27

Arm, Vodafone flex their muscles to show Cisco they’re fighting fit on the edge

Telcos won't give up on the dream of becoming enterprise app stores instead of dumb data pipes

Networks06 Aug 2020 | 4

BT: 'Because of the existing underlying supply of the 4G equipment, most of our 5G (NSA) so far is with Huawei'

Vodafone not happy either as telcos complain to defence sub-committee about Huawei removal woes

Networks29 Jul 2020 | 43

Not-so-paltry towers to float: Vodafone reveals IPO plans for mega European masts biz

Firm to list in Frankfurt, could net €10bn to €20bn

Networks24 Jul 2020 | 14

Brit telcos deliberately killed Phones 4u, claim admins in £1bn UK High Court sueball

One-time retailer has a problem: Key evidence is on a lost fondleslab

Personal Tech21 Jul 2020 | 59

UK mobile network Vodafone channels its inner stroppy teen, begs government to cancel upcoming 5G auction

Ugggghhhhh, it's so unfair!

Networks16 Jul 2020 | 16

Rip and replace is such a long Huawei to go, UK telcos plead, citing 'blackouts' and 'billion pound' costs: Are Vodafone and BT playing 'Project Fear'?

Analysis Not sure they spent that much on 'high risk' kit from ZTE and Huawei, coughs analyst

Networks10 Jul 2020 | 89

The good news: Vodafone switches on first full-fat, real-life 5G network in the UK. The bad news: it only got sent to Coventry

Tech stands on own two feet rather than 4G infrastructure

Networks03 Jul 2020 | 43

Police and NHS urge British public not to call 101 and 111 non-emergency numbers after behind-the-scenes kit failure

Vodafone responsible for maintaining system infrastructure

Networks19 Jun 2020 | 16

Namesco email 'scripting error' has last bastion of Demon Internet holdouts scratching their heads

Let's play 'That's Not My Subdomain'

Networks04 Jun 2020 | 17

Vodafone woes far from over for Xiaomi Mi 9 owners amid complaints of leaky batteries and voicemails in Romanian

Dupa ton va rugam sa lasati un mesaj

Personal Tech21 May 2020 | 6

Xiaomi Mi 9 owners furious after dodgy Vodafone software patch bricked their mobes

Updated No calls, no texts, no data

Personal Tech14 May 2020 | 71

O2 be a fly on the wall during BT and Vodafone's video calls: Telefónica's UK biz, Virgin Media officially merge

Multinationals' UK arms pair up to take on Voda and former state-owned telco

Networks07 May 2020 | 54

Vodafone issues a stay of execution for Demon domain hold-outs

Expiration pushed to 1 September due to COVID-19 challenges

Networks30 Apr 2020 | 14

Vodafone chief speaks out after 5G conspiracy nuts torch phone mast serving Nightingale Hospital in Brum

Will someone rid us of these mast-er idiots?

Networks15 Apr 2020 | 128

Oh Hell. Remember the glory days of Demon Internet? Well, now would be a good time to pick a new email address

Sub-domain on the move – you have until 29 May to pick a new one

Legal15 Apr 2020 | 100

UK big five carriers bin wired broadband download quotas for as long as we're all stuck indoors

Keep Calm And Stream Video, on generous new discount plans and payment terms

Networks30 Mar 2020 | 28

Whoa, someone actually texted you in 2020? Oh, nvm, it's just Boris Johnson, telling you to stay the f**k at home

UK lacks formal emergency messaging system, so Big 4 carriers helped out

Networks24 Mar 2020 | 85

UK.gov sits down with mobile big four to formalise plans for rural shared 4G network

£1bn boon to improve coverage across the home nations

Networks09 Mar 2020 | 24

Brit telcos can keep £218m licence fee repayment from Ofcom after penny-pinching regulator loses Court of Appeal case

But will you see your phone bills decreasing?

Networks19 Feb 2020 | 14