On Tuesday, telecommunications bigwig Vodafone said that it plans to bring about an improvement in mobile coverage in remote areas of the UK, by fixing 100 mobile `not-spots.'

A former Vodafone Australia executive has been appointed by OPTUS for the position of head of its network operations. He will have the responsibility to expand its 4G mobile footprint.

Vodafone group is looking forward to acquire the German cable operator to expand its broadband and TV market. According to reports, Vodafone Group Plc approached Kabel Deutschland Holding AG to discuss the plans of acquiring the German cable operator.

In spite of more than £5 billion turnover last year, Vodafone has not paid any UK corporation tax this year. This has happened for second year in a row as the company admitted not paying the tax in 2011-12 also.

Vodafone has recorded its first ever downfall in the annual revenues as the recession in southern Europe sighted its taking falls up to 17%.

Along with the overburdened finances, the major British mobile phone company said that it will reinvest in the upcoming month's £2.1bn dividend from US subsidiary Verizon Wireless in the business rather than giving back the cash to the shareholders.

According to recent reports, Telekom Austria has announced launch of several Vodafone services to its customers in Austria and Croatia. Telekom Austria's A1, is Vodafone partner in Austria and Vipnet is Vodafone partner in Croatia.

New Vodafone technology - dubbed Global SIM - will apparently open up international markets for New Zealand-based security and surveillance firm Mi5 Security; making the Kiwi exporter the first company in the country to offer North America and Europe connectivity for all its devices with one single SIM card in each device.

In a Tuesday statement, Telecom New Zealand (TNZ) said that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Vodafone New Zealand and Australia's Telstra, for building a $US60 million trans-Tasman submarine cable which would link New Zealand with Australia and would strengthen the country's Internet connectivity with Asia.