VODAFONE GROUP PLC

This company is engaged in the provision of mobile communications. It was incorporated in 1984. The registered business office of the company is based in Newbury, United Kingdom.The company offers various handsets; voice and messaging services; data services comprising Internet, email, music, games, and television; and fixed services, including fixed voice and fixed broadband solutions. It also offers value added services, such as Vodafone Email Plus and Windows Mobile Email, which provide enterprise customers with real time handheld access to email, calendar, and address book; Vodafone PC Backup and Restore that enable users to remotely store data automatically through their Internet connection; Vodafone Money Transfer system; and roaming services. In addition, the company's enterprise services include Vodafone One Net, which combines fixed and mobile communications in one system; Vodafone Unified Communications, which provides one interface for various communications, access emails, share documents and files, access calendars, hold Web and video conferences, and exchange instant messages; and enterprise mobile voice connections.The company owns and manages approximately 2,100 stores selling services and providing customer support, as well as operates approximately 7,600 Vodafone branded stores to sell its products and services through franchise and dealer arrangements.It is a global company with operating subsidiaries in the United States, Portugal, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, Spain, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Malta, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Romania, Turkey, Albania, South Africa, Australia, India, Lesotho, Mozambique, Egypt, Japan, Ghana, Fiji, the United Republic of Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Poland, and Qatar.