Vodafonewatch Report #88 December 2010-January 2011 Snapshot
21 January 2011
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Table of Contents
1 Executive brief
4 Group
4 M&A
4 Polsat owner joins list of Polkomtel suitors
5 Partner Markets
5 Global Enterprise
5 VGE lands more smart metering work
5 LatAm push extended to M2M
6 Technology
6 Authentication push in offing
6 VGE nets Unilever contract extension
6 BT battle
7 Investments and associates
7 People
7 Joosub enlisted to ride out Spain difficulties
7 New Vodafone Malta boss named
8 Investments and associates
8 Joseph to take charge of M‑PESA push — report
10 Investments and associates
10 People movement highlights
11 Investments and associates
11 Suppliers
11 Modcomp trumpets Vodafone IT deal
11 Supplier recruitment highlights
12 Terminals
12 Android dominates VZW’s new LTE device range
12 Terminals
12 Mobile terminal highlights
13 Terminals
13 Android dominates VZW’s new LTE device range cont’d
14 Europe Region
14 Albania
14 Czech Republic
14 3G coverage expansion continues
16 Czech Republic
16 Germany
16 LTE rollout extended to Lower Saxony
16 Operators protest MTR cuts
17 Ireland
17 VfD ties with RWE on network rollout
18 Italy
18 VfIT appeals to Berlusconi over MTR pain
18 Netherlands
18 VfN teams with RTL, Teleena on sub‑brands
19 Portugal
19 Discount brand “in pipeline”
19 Portugal
19 Optimus NGN pact finalised
20 Turkey
20 VfP adds apps to Casa TV
22 Romania
22 Berroeta says Group is in Romania to stay
23 United Kingdom
23 United Kingdom
23 Ofcom relents on UMTS900 liberalisation
23 Arguments turn to 800MHz auction rules
24 United Kingdom
24 Vodafone Business store expansion quietly dropped
25 Africa, Asia-Pacific & Middle East Region
25 Australia — Vodafone Hutchison Australia
25 VHA in disarray after outages, privacy breach
26 Software bugs blamed, but is merger in hand?
28 Privacy breach adds to woe
29 Egypt
29 Egypt
29 VfEg seeking better view of vendor progress
29 OnMobile deal extended to Egypt
30 Competitive pressure on rise
30 Ghana
30 VfG outsources radio network management
31 India — Vodafone Essar
31 India — Vodafone Essar
31 Wipro enlisted to help fixed‑line expansion
31 Known unknowns
32 India — Vodafone Essar
32 Indus trio “close” to 3G roaming deal
32 India 3G auction: final results
32 Metro circles
32 ‘A’ circles
32 ‘B’ circles
32 ‘C’ circles
33 India — Vodafone Essar
33 VfEs teams with ICICI on mobile banking
35 India — Vodafone Essar
35 CGT red tape undimmed
35 Kenya — Safaricom
35 Kenya to promote open access for LTE
35 Portability introduction now scheduled for April
36 M‑travel offering seeks wider market
37 New Zealand
37 Draft MTR cuts announced
38 VfNZ shortlisted for rural broadband scheme
38 New spectrum in play?
39 Tanzania — Vodacom Tanzania
39 Blacklist tool’s impact trumpeted
41 Qatar
41 Mozambique — Vodacom Mozambique
41 Qatar
41 ALU gains fixed expansion work
41 WiMAX notably absent
41 LTE demo, lower impact base stations highlighted
42 South Africa — Vodacom
42 VfQ adds low‑cost BlackBerry offering
42 South Africa — Vodacom
42 Vodacom recruits Rothschild to help sort DRC mess
43 Index
Index
A
AAP Communication Services 28
Accenture 11
Aditya Birla Group
- Idea Cellular 32, 33
- Indus Towers 32, 33
Africa 7, 8, 25, 26, 30, 31, 35, 41
- Congo 8, 41
- Ghana 30
- Kenya 8, 33, 35, 39, 42
- Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) 35
- Government 35
- Lesotho 8
- Mozambique 8, 42
- South Africa 7, 8, 13, 39, 41
- Tanzania 8, 42
- Tanzania Comms. Regulatory Authority (TCRA) 42
Air France 12
Albtelecom
- Eagle Mobile 14
Alcatel-Lucent 5, 12, 25, 39
Americas
- Latin America 5, 29
- USA 5
Apax Partners 4
Apple 12, 13, 19
- iPad 12, 13
- iPhone 5, 12, 13, 19
Asia-Pacific 7, 25, 41
- Afghanistan 8
- Australia 12, 13, 25, 26, 28, 29
- Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) 28
- China 11, 30, 32
- Fiji 8
- Commerce Commission 37
- India 7, 8, 11, 13, 17, 24, 26, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 37
- Department of Telecommunications (DoT) 32
- Intelligence Bureau 32
- Licence Circles 32
- Andhra Pradesh 32
- Assam 32
- Bihar 32
- Chennai 32
- Delhi 32, 33
- Gujarat 7, 32, 33
- Haryana 32
- Himachal Pradesh 12, 32
- Jammu & Kashmir 32
- Karnataka 32
- Kerala 32
- Kolkata 32
- Madhya Pradesh 13, 32
- Maharashtra 32
- Mumbai 11, 32, 33
- North East 32
- Orissa 32
- Punjab 32
- Rajasthan 32
- Tamil Nadu 32
- Uttar Pradesh (West) 32
- New Zealand 5, 26, 37, 38, 42
- Pakistan 24
- South Korea 4
- Sri Lanka 7
AT&T 11, 12
Aurum Producciones S.A. 13
Avior Research 41
Axiata Group Bhd (TM International)
- India (Idea, see Aditya Birla) 32, 33
- Malaysia (Celcom) 6
B
Benzina 16
Bertelsmann Group 18
- Arvato Mobile GmbH 18
- Random House, Inc. 18
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) 31, 33
Bharti Group 7, 31, 32, 33, 35, 41
- Bharti Airtel 7, 31, 32, 33, 35, 41
- Indus Towers 32, 33
Bité Group 5
Blackstone Group 4
Boston Consulting Group 10
Bouygues Telecom 10
Bridgewater Systems 11
BT Group 6
- BT Global Services 6
C
Capgemini 5
Chunghwa Telecom 5
Communications Authority 42
CSP Inc. 11
- MODCOMP Inc. 11
Cygnus IT Solutions 11
D
Datacraft 31
Deutsche Telekom 16, 20
du (Emirates Integrated Tel.) 11
E
Eastern Europe
- Czech Republic 14, 16
- Czech Rail. (Ceske drahy) 16
- Latvia 5
- Poland 4, 8
- Office for Comp. and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) 8
- Romania 14, 22, 23
- Turkey 20
Eaton Towers 30
eBay
- Skype 13
ekerbank T.A.. 20
Electro World 16
EMC
- VMware 11, 31
Emitac Mobile Solutions (EMS LLC) 12
Ericsson 17, 42
Essar Group
- Vodafone Essar
7, 11, 20, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 37
European Union 16
- European Commission 23
F
Facebook 20, 26
France Télécom 10, 11
- Orange Romania 22
FX Networks Ltd 38
G
Gemalto NV 6
- Valimo Wireless Ltd 6
Globus 16
Google 12, 24, 31, 41
- Android 5, 12, 13, 19
H
Hellenic Telecoms (OTE)
- COSMOTE
- Albanian Mobile Communications (AMC) 14
Hewlett-Packard 12
- Compaq 12
High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) 5, 12
Huawei Technologies 5, 12, 13, 14, 30, 32
Hutchison Whampoa 12, 13, 25, 26
- 3 Group
- Australia 26
- UK 23
- VHA Pty. Ltd (see also Vodafone)
12, 25, 26, 28
I
IBM 7
ICICI Bank 33
Indus Towers 32, 33
Infosys Technologies 7
Interspar 16
Italgas S.p.A. 5
Itron 5
K
Key Revolution Ltd, The 6
Kordia 38
Korea Telecom 4
KPN
- E-Plus 16
L
LG Electronics 12
Lloyds Banking Group plc
- HBOS
- Insight Investment 33
M
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) 33
Maxis Communication, Malaysia 33
- Aircel 32, 33
Mediatel 8
Microsoft 10, 24, 31, 41
Middle East
- Egypt 4, 6, 29, 30
- Qatar 8, 23, 39, 41
- United Arab Emirates 12
Motorola 12, 13
MTN 7
N
nCircle 11
Netia SA 8
Nokia 42
Novatel Wireless 12
O
OMV Aktiengesellschaft 16
OnMobile Global Ltd 29, 30
P
Peregrine Projects and Solutions WLL 41
PKN Orlen 4
Polkomtel 4, 8
Polsat 4
Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) 8
- Exatel 8
- Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne (PSE) 8
PortingXS International 35
Portugal Telecom 19, 20
Posta dhe Telekomi i Kosovës (PTK) 14
Powerlan Limited 29
- Clarity 29
Promotora de Informaciones, S.A.
(Grupo PRISA)
- Media Capital 19
Puma AG 13
R
red2 Ltd 41
Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
- Reliance Comms. (RCom) 31, 32, 33
Research In Motion 5, 12, 13, 41
- BlackBerry 5, 12, 13, 41
Reserve Bank of India 33
Rothschild 41
Royal Dutch Shell plc 16
RTL Group 18, 19
RWE AG 17, 20
S
Safaricom 7, 8, 20, 35, 36, 42
- Easy Travel 36
- Joseph, Michael 8
- M-PESA 8, 36
Sagem 12
Samsung 12, 13, 16
Saudi Telecom Company 24
Siemens 5
Singapore Telecom
- Optus (Australia) 26
SK Telecom 4
Sonaecom
- Optimus 19, 20
Stadtwerke Pasewalk 5
State Bank of India 33, 37
Summit Entertainment 13
Supreme Court 32, 37
T
Tata Group 31, 32, 33
- Tata Communications 31
- Tata Teleservices 33
Technology
- 2.5G 38
- 2G 23, 38
- CDMA 12, 14, 32, 33
- EDGE 14
- GPRS 5
- GSM 12, 23, 32, 33
- 3G 11, 12, 13, 14, 23, 26, 32, 33, 35
- Evolved HSPA
(HSPA+/I-HSPA) 22
- 64QAM 22
- HSPA 14, 22, 26
- WCDMA 14
- 4G 12, 13, 35
- Long Term Evolution (LTE)
4, 12, 16, 17, 22, 35, 38, 39
- WiMAX 39
- Bluetooth 13
- BSS 31
- DSL 10
- DTH 10
- Ethernet 39
- Femtocell 12, 13
- Fibre 10, 17, 19, 20, 38, 39
- FM 13, 19
- FTTH 10, 39
- GPON 39
- GPRS 5
- GPS 12, 13
- HDTV 19
- IM 42
- IP 10, 13, 19, 20, 39
- IPTV 10, 20
- M2M 5
- microSD 12
- MP3 13
- MVNO 24
- NGN 19
- PC 5
- Netbook 12
- RBT 29
- R&D 7
- SIM 6
- SMS 26, 37, 41
- Spectrum 23
- 800 MHz 23
- 900 MHz 23
- 1000 MHz 23
- 1800 MHz 4, 23
- 2600 MHz 23, 35, 38
- VDSL 17, 20
- VoIP 39
- Windows 42
- W-LAN 5, 12, 13
Telecom Egypt 30
Telecom Italia 18
- Telecom Italia Mobile 18
Telecom New Zealand 13, 38
Teleena 18, 19
Telefónica Group 16, 23, 29
- Telefónica Europe (O2) 16, 23
- O2 Germany 16
- O2 UK 23
Telkom South Africa 7
Telsis 42
Telstra 26
Tesco 16
Texas Pacific Group (TPG) 4
Tipsport SK, a.s. 16
TransferTo 24
Tunisie Telecom 24
Turkcell (see also Alfa/Curkurova/TeliaSonera) 4
Twitter, Inc. 13, 25, 26
U
Unilever 6
V
Venfin Ltd
- Tracker Network (Proprietary) Limited (TRACKER) 13
Verizon Communications 5, 10, 11, 12, 13
- Verizon Wireless 5, 10, 11, 12, 13
- McAdam, Lowell 10
- Melone, Tony 10
- nPhase 5
- Vodafone Omnitel 5, 12, 13, 18, 20
Vivendi
- SFR (Société Française de Radiotéléphone)
10, 11, 23, 24, 25, 31
- Neuf Cegetel
- Neufbox 10
Vodacom Group 7, 8, 20, 31, 41, 42
- Congo 8, 41
- Group 7, 8, 31
- Joosub, Shameel 7
- Lesotho 8
- Mozambique 8, 42
- South Africa 7, 8, 13, 39, 41
- Tanzania 8, 20, 42
- Uys, Pieter 7
- Vodacom Business 31, 41
Vodafone
- Africa, Middle East, and Asia Pacific Region (AMAP) 25
- Africa 7, 8, 25, 26, 31, 41
- Asia 7, 25
- Australia 12, 13, 25, 26, 28
- VHA Pty. Ltd (see Hutchison) 12, 25, 26, 28
- Egypt 4, 6, 24, 29, 30
- Fiji 8
- Ghana 7, 30
- India 7, 8, 11, 13, 17, 20, 24, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 37, 41
- Indus Towers 32, 33
- Kenya (see also Safaricom)
7, 8, 20, 33, 35, 36, 39, 42
- Mozambique 42
- New Zealand
5, 13, 26, 28, 37, 38, 42
- Qatar (see also Vodafone Qatar) 7, 8, 12, 13, 39, 41
- South Africa (see also Vodacom) 7, 8, 13, 20, 31, 39, 41, 42
- Europe Region 22
- Albania 14
- Czech Republic 14, 16
- Germany
5, 6, 11, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20
- Greece 13, 14
- Ireland 7, 17, 42
- Italy 5, 12, 13, 18, 20
- Malta 7, 22, 39
- Netherlands 5, 18, 19, 20
- Portugal 10, 13, 19, 20
- Romania 7, 14, 22, 23
- Spain 7, 12, 13, 20, 41
- Turkey 20
- UK 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 23, 24, 25, 30, 41
- Executives
- Berroeta, Iñaki 7, 22
- Clegg, Howard 10
- Colao, Vittorio 7, 26, 28
- Collymore, Bob 8, 36
- Combes, Michel 18
- Couto, João 10
- Crook, Danielle 24
- Della Valle, Margherita 10
- Dews, Nigel 28
- Foley, David 10
- Henriques, Joao 10
- Lundal, Morten 10
- Morris, Paul 10
- Pieters, Marten 32
- Román, Francisco 7
- Serdar, Cenk 8
- Shalfoon, Kursten 42
- Sharma, Balesh 7
- Solomon, Liliana 22
- Tunnicliffe, Ken 26
- Whitehill, Kyle 30
- Young, Michael 26
- Ex-executives
- Davies, Mike 26
- Reeves, Andy 26
- Group 5, 6, 10, 12, 22, 26, 28, 31
- Group Marketing 10
- Headquarters 11
- Partner Markets 5, 6, 10
- Austria (mobilkom) 14
- Malaysia (Celcom) 6
- UAE (du) 11, 12
- Strategy
- Total Communications 20
- Vodafone Global Enterprise
5, 6, 10, 31
- VGE Lite 10
- Vodafone Internet Services (VIS) 10
- Investments & Associates
- Americas (see also Verizon Wireless) 5, 10, 11, 12, 13
- France (see also Vivendi/SFR) 10, 11, 23, 24, 25, 31
- Poland (see also Polkomtel) 4, 8
- Products
- At Home 19, 20
- Blacklist 42
- Business 10, 24, 41
- Casa 19, 20
- Farmers Club 20
- Money Transfer 8, 33
- Office 17
- OneNet 24
- o.tel.o 19
- Red 41
- Sure Signal 12
- Telecoms Management 6
- Terminals
- BlackBerry 5, 12, 13, 41
- Vodafone 533 13
- Vodafone TV 20
- Western Europe 18
Vodafone Qatar Q.S.C. 7, 8, 12, 13, 39, 41
Vodafone Telecom, Russia 6
W
Weather Investments
- Orascom Telecom 4, 30
Western Europe
- Central Europe 22
- France 10, 11, 23, 25
- Autorité de la Concurrence 11
- Germany 5, 6, 11, 16, 18, 20
- Bundesnetzagentur für Elektrizität, Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und Eisenbahnen (BNetzA, RegTP, FNA, or German Federal Network Agency) 16
- Greece 14
- Ireland 17
- Italy 5, 18, 20
- Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (AGCOM) 18
- Malta 39
- Netherlands 5, 18, 19, 20
- Portugal 13, 19
- Spain 7
- Turkey 20
- United Kingdom (UK)
5, 6, 10, 11, 23, 24, 25, 30
- Office of Communications (Ofcom) 23, 25
Wipro 11, 31
Woosh Wireless Ltd 38
WPP 17
- Team Vodafone 17
Y
Yahoo! 42
- Flickr 13
Z
Zain (MTC) 7, 35, 41
- OpCos
- Kenya 35
ZTE Corporation 11, 13, 32
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Report: #88
Covering: December 2010-January 2011
Published: January 2011
Next report: February 2011
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