各国电信商介绍-跨国公司Vodafone(英) Vodafone Group plc (the name stands for VOice-DAta-FONE) is a multinational mobile phone operator with headquartered in Newbury, Berkshire, England. It is the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world by turnover, with equity interests in 27 countries and Partner Networks (networks in which it has no equity stake) in a further 27 countries. At 30 September 2022 Vodafone had 171.0 million proportionate customers in 27 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 is the second largest mobile telecoms group in the world behind China Mobile. The six markets where it had more than ten million proportionate customers were: Germany; United States; Italy; United Kingdom; Japan; Spain. In the U.S these customers came via its minority stake in Verizon Wireless, and in the other five markets Vodafone had majority controlled subsidiaries. Vodafone is listed on the London Stock Exchange as Vodafone Group (LSE: VOD.L) and New York Stock Exchange, symbol VOD. Vodafone in Europe Vodafone currently operates in the following countries in Europe. The proportionate customer numbers are for 30 June 2022: customer numbers are for 30 June 2022: Country Network Name (former) Ownership Proportionate Number of Customers Status Market Share Official Website Other Local Competitor/s Albania Vodafone 99.9% 670,000 Subsidary 48% .vodafone.al AMCAustria A11 0% - Partner 39.4% .a1.net T-Mobile, One, Telering, 3Belgium Proximus 25.0% 1,077,000 Affiliate 48.7% .proximus.be Base, MobistarCroatia VIPnet1 0% - Partner 46% .vipnet.hr T-Mobile, Tele2Cyprus Cytamobile-Vodafone 0% - Partner .cytamobile-vodafone.com AreebaCzech Republic Oskar Vodafone 99.9% 1,949,000 Subsidary 18% .vodafone.cz Eurotel, T-MobileDenmark TDC Mobil 0% - Partner 41.4% .tdcmobil.dk Sonofon, Telia, 3Estonia Elisa Oyj (Radiolinja) 0% - Partner .elisa.ee Tele2, EMTFinland Elisa Oyj (Radiolinja) 0% - Partner 30% (2022) .elisa.fi Sonera, FinnetFrance SFR 43.9% 7,101,000 Affiliate 36% .sfr.fr Orange, Bouygues TlcomGermany Vodafone (D2) 100% 28,259,000 Subsidary 37% .vodafone.de T-Mobile, E-Plus, O2Greece Vodafone (Panafon) 99.8% 4,160,000 Subsidary 35.7% .vodafone.gr Cosmote, TIM Hellas, Q TelecomHungary Vodafone 100% 1,797,000 Subsidary 21.44% .vodafone.hu T-Mobile, Pannon GSMIceland Og Vodafone 0% - Partner 32% (2022) .ogvodafone.is Sminn, Viking WirelessIreland Vodafone (Eircell) 100% 1,981,000 Subsidary 54% .vodafone.ie O2, Meteor, 3Italy Vodafone (Omnitel) 76.9% 17,499,000 Subsidary 35% .vodafone.it TIM, Wind, 3Lithuania Bit (mobile operator) 0% - Partner .bite.lt Tele2, OmnitelLuxembourg LUXGSM 0% - Partner 64% (2022) .ept.lu Tango (Tele2), VOXmobileMalta Vodafone (Telecell) 100% 170,000 Subsidary 55% (2022) .vodafone.com.mt Go MobileNetherlands Vodafone (Libertel) 99.9% 3,860,000 Subsidary 23% .vodafone.nl KPN, T-Mobile, OrangePoland Plus GSM 19.6% 1,545,000 Affiliate 33% .plusgsm.pl Orange Polska, Netia Mobile, EraPortugal Vodafone (Telecel) 100% 3,663,000 Subsidary 34.3% .vodafone.pt TMN, OptimusRomania Connex-Vodafone 99.1% 5,203,000 Subsidary 46% .vodafone.ro Orange, Cosmote Romania, Zapp MobileSlovenia Si.mobil-Vodafone1 0% 350,000 23.4% Partner .simobil.si Mobitel, VegaSpain Vodafone (Airtel) 100% 11,840,000 Subsidary 29% .vodafone.es movistar(Telefonica”s mobile arm), Amena,Sweden Vodafone (Europolitan) 0% - Partner 16% (2022) .vodafone.se Telia, Tele2, 3 Spring MobilSwitzerland Swisscom 25.0% 1,008,000 Affiliate 62% .swisscom-mobile.ch Orange, TDC, Tele2United Kingdom Vodafone 100% 15,489,000 Subsidary 24% .vodafone.co.uk O2, Orange, T-Mobile, 3, Virgin Mobile* Local company with more than 50% being owned by the parent company is considered a Subsidiary; Ownership of less than 50% makes the local company an Affiliate. Local companies without ownership at all are Partners. History 1985-01-01: First phone call on Vodafone United Kingdom”s analogue network. This event was staged, due to a network failure; the first calls actually being made the next day. The first call was made to Vodafone head office - which was at that point above a curry house in Newbury, where the company remains today (but now in a custom-built HQ building).October 1991: Racal Telecom is demerged from Racal Electronics and becomes Vodafone Group.June 1992: Vodafone Germany”s (still as Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH) network went live.July 1992: Vodafone United Kingdom”s GSM network went live.September 1992: Vodafone Sweden”s network went live.October 1992: Vodafone Portugal”s (still as Telecel, Comunicaes Pessoais, SA) network went live.July 1993: Vodafone Greece”s n