Vodafone is planning to close its £755m final salary pension scheme to roughly 4,000 of its employees, becoming one of the largest employers to propose such a move in an attempt to control the costs and risks of retirement benefits.The company sent
NEW DELHI - Mobile phone giant Vodafone Group Plc has sought an extra two months to reply to a 1.21 billion pounds Indian tax claim over its purchase of India's third-largest mobile operator. Vodafone had been told late last month to explain by Nov
LONDON - Vodafone on Tuesday said net profits soared 125 percent during its first half, adding that it planned to double annual cost savings to two billion pounds. Profit after tax soared to 4.82 billion pounds in the six months to September 30 com
LONDON - British mobile phone giant Vodafone on Tuesday said net profits soared 125 percent during its first half, adding that it planned to double annual cost saving to two billion pounds. Profit after tax soared to 4.82 billion pounds in the six
Vodafone is accelerating its £1bn ($1.66bn) cost-cutting plan, the group said on Wednesday and unveiled a similar package up to 2012, as it continues to battle cost inflation, the downturn and competitive pressures in many of its main markets.The wo
The government of Ghana on Tuesday night said it would renegotiate Vodafone’s $900m (£550m) purchase of a leading local telecoms group after an official review into alleged “irregularities in the deal.The dispute is a potential blow to the world’s b
Vodafone faces a fight over one of its prime African acquisitions after an official review in Ghana challenged the legality of its $900m (£557m) purchase of a leading local telecoms group.The mobile phones group bought a 70 per cent stake in previou
Vodafone on Tuesday announced it would start selling Apple’s popular iPhone in the UK from early next year, in a move that should bolster efforts to turnround the mobile operator’s ailing British business.It means there will be three UK mobile opera