Billionaire Li Ka-shing’s Hutchison Whampoa Ltd has agreed to buy O2, Telefonica’s wireless carrier in the UK, for £10.25bn (€14bn) as consolidation heats up in Britain’s phone market.

Vodafone Ireland has continued to haemorrhage customers, according to its latest interim report, with 29,000 mobile users moving away from the world’s second largest mobile operator in the last three months.

It has been claimed that the National Security Agency in the US has collected up to 200 million text messages a day from across the world.

Telecommunicationsbillionaire Denis O’Brien has ruled out selling shares in Digicel Group Ltd to the public “at the moment”.

Mobile phone and broadband provider Vodafone Deutschland has been the target of a large-scale data theft affecting the personal details of two million German customers.

Irish-based fraud management firm Xintec has secured €900,000 in funding from Kernel Capital through the Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity Fund.

Vodafone last night denied any decision had been made on whether the roles of more than 300 workers will be transferred to the North.

VODAFONE IRELAND is to dispense with the services of 139 members of Rigney Dolphin, the company it has contracted to provide call centre services.

Vodafone says Egyptian authorities forced it to broadcast pro-government text messages during the protests that have rocked the country.

British housebuilders stormed ahead today after Taylor Wimpey cheered sentiment with an upbeat assessment of the UK property market.

The London market held firm today despite sharp falls on Wall Street amid grim US housing and employment news.

Vodafone has today announced several changes to its organisational structure and new senior management appointments.

Wall Street advanced in uneven trading today after a drop in oil prices and an unexpected gain in new home sales encouraged investors to put money back into the market.

Vodafone Group has today announced its interim management statement for the quarter ended December 31 2007 revealing that there were an additional 48,000 user subscribed to their service.

The London market remained grounded in negative territory today despite pulling back from the session's lows in afternoon trading.

The London market continued its rollercoaster ride today, closing deep in the red as hopes of a prolonged revival began to fade.

VODAFONE Ireland increased its customer base by 10,000 to 2.2 million during the three months to the end of June, as group revenue hit £8.3 billion (€12.3bn).

Vodafone is to establish a shared service centre in Budapest to deal with common financial processes and transactions across the bulk of the group.

BRITISH stocks declined yesterday, ending a four-day winning streak. Tesco and Vodafone Group led the retreat.

Vodafone Group will invest £1bn (€1.49bn) in India in the next few years, the Britain-based company’s chief executive said.

BRITISH stocks fell to a four-week low, led by BP as oil prices declined for a third day and Bear, Stearns & Co cut its recommendation on the energy company’s shares.

Japan Tobacco has agreed to acquire Britain’s Gallaher Group for nearly £10bn (€14.9bn), the largest corporate acquisition by a Japanese company, it is reported today.

Vodafone Group today announced the appointment of a new chief executive for Europe.

Vodafone Group has today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the assets of Telsim from the Turkish Savings and Deposit Insurance Fund.

The Vodafone Group has announced that that Attila Vitai will be appointed as CEO of Vodafone's operations in Turkey, subject to the regulatory approval and completion of the purchase of the Turkish mobile operator Telsim.

VODAFONE GROUP has announced three new appointments to the Board of Vodafone Ireland.

VODAFONE IRELAND has won a tender to host a new Centre of Excellence in Dublin.

Vodafone Group Plc announces that Matthew Kirk has been appointed as Director of External Relationships.

Britain’s Vodafone Group offered the highest bid – £3.81bn (€5.6bn) – in an auction today to buy Telsim, Turkey’s second-largest mobile telephone company.

MOBILE phone operator Vodafone is to create 50 jobs in an €8 million investment in a data centre in Dublin.

Denis O'Brien's Digicel Group today announced Stephen Brewer has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Digicel Trinidad & Tobago.

The launch of 3G services to pre-paid customers boosted Vodafone's Irish subscriber numbers by 29,000, the company said today.

MOBILE PHONE giant Vodafone Group is to sell airtime to the Extreme Sports Channel in Britain’s first Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) deal with a television channel.

Mobile operator Vodafone has appointed Teresa Elder as chief executive of its Irish operations.

Vodafone Group today announced that it has reached an agreement with Vodacom, South Africa's leading mobile operator, for Vodacom to market Vodafone's global services.

The offer made by Vodafone’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Vodafone International Holdings BV (Vodafone International), for the shares which Vodafone and its subsidiaries (Vodafone Group) did not already own in Vodafone KK closed for acceptances yesterday.

Ireland continues to have the highest levels of outgoing voice usage per customer in the Vodafone Group's mobile businesses, and the highest data usage in the Group's European mobile businesses.

VODAFONE Group, in which many former eircom investors hold shares, may raise its dividend by 20%, easing investor concern that chief executive Arun Sarin’s expansion strategy may hurt shareholder returns.

Vodafone Group announced today that it has signed a new partner network agreement with Luxembourg's leading mobile operator.

Vodafone Group announced today that Gavin Darby, currently Chief Executive of Vodafone UK, has been appointed chief executive Americas Region with effect from April 1, 2004.

The chief operating officer of Vodafone Group has slammed a proposal by the Irish telecom watchdog, ComReg, to force the UK mobile operator to open up its network to rivals.

MOBILE phone giant O2’s latest accounts show that like Vodafone its Irish customers deliver more revenue per head than any other of the company’s European users.

VODAFONE Group apologised yesterday for unwittingly encouraging two streakers to run into the middle of a Tri-nations rugby match wearing nothing but the phone company's logo.

Vodafone Ireland says that its Key Performance Indicators for the three month period to March 31, 2002, show that its integration into the Vodafone Group, with full re-branding is complete.