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Vodafone stock watchers have 3 things to track today: India relief, buybacks, and Feb. 5

Vodafone stock watchers have 3 things to track today: India relief, buybacks, and Feb. 5

Vodafone shares fell 0.7% to 102.9p Friday, despite a recent Berenberg upgrade citing improved cash flow and a stronger balance sheet. The drop followed news that India capped Vodafone Idea’s annual dues at $13.79 million for six years; Vodafone holds a 16% stake in the carrier. Vodafone also bought back 1.36 million shares Thursday as part of a €500 million programme. Investors await the Feb. 5 trading update.
9 January 2026
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Vodafone Idea share price jumps today after ₹5,836 crore Vodafone Group deal and AGR moratorium headlines

Vodafone Idea share price jumps today after ₹5,836 crore Vodafone Group deal and AGR moratorium headlines

Vodafone Idea shares jumped 6% in Mumbai after the company announced a revised settlement with Vodafone Group promoters, unlocking ₹5,836 crore via cash and shares. Vodafone Group said it would settle the liability with €219 million in cash and 3.28 billion shares. India has granted Vodafone Idea a partial moratorium on $9.76 billion in AGR dues, deferring repayments by a decade, according to a government source.
1 January 2026
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Most Active UK Stocks Today (10 December 2025): HSBC, BP and Tesco Lead London’s Volume Surge

Most Active UK Stocks Today (10 December 2025): HSBC, BP and Tesco Lead London’s Volume Surge

Lloyds, Vodafone, HSBC, and Barclays led UK trading volumes Wednesday, each moving millions of shares by mid-morning. The FTSE 100 rose 0.2% at 08:30 GMT, while sterling climbed above $1.33. BP, Tesco, and Volution Group also saw heavy activity, with Volution jumping over 7% after a strong update and acquisition news. German and French indices slipped.
10 December 2025
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Vodafone Group (VOD) Stock Outlook 2026: Dividend Revival, Safaricom Deal and Split Analyst Views

Vodafone Group (VOD) Stock Outlook 2026: Dividend Revival, Safaricom Deal and Split Analyst Views

Vodafone shares have rebounded 44% year-on-year in London, closing near 93.9p, with the U.S. ADR at $12.47, close to its 52-week high. H1 FY26 results showed revenue up 7.3% to €19.6bn, but operating profit fell 9.2% to €2.2bn. The company raised full-year guidance and increased its dividend for the first time in years. Credit agencies remain cautious despite the recovery.
8 December 2025
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Vodafone Stock on 5 December 2025: Safaricom Deal, Spain Exit and Dividend Reboot Put VOD Near 52‑Week Highs

Vodafone Stock on 5 December 2025: Safaricom Deal, Spain Exit and Dividend Reboot Put VOD Near 52‑Week Highs

Vodafone shares traded near 52-week highs on December 5, 2025, after a year of major restructuring, including exits from Spain and Italy and a merger with Three UK. The company raised its dividend and shifted focus to Africa, with Vodacom set to acquire an extra 20% stake in Kenya’s Safaricom. Shares in London closed around 95.3p, up sharply year-on-year, but GAAP earnings remain negative.
5 December 2025
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Vodafone (VOD) Stock on 3 December 2025: Near 52‑Week Highs, Dividend Hike and €500m Buyback Fuel Turnaround Hopes

Vodafone (VOD) Stock on 3 December 2025: Near 52‑Week Highs, Dividend Hike and €500m Buyback Fuel Turnaround Hopes

London – 3 December 2025 – Vodafone Group Public Limited Company is suddenly behaving like a classic “boring telco” that remembered it can move fast. The shares are near 52‑week highs, the dividend has just been raised for the first time in eight years, and a fresh €500m buyback is running in the background while management talks up multi‑year growth. Here’s what’s happening with Vodafone stock today, what has changed in 2025, and how analysts and models now see the risk–reward. Vodafone share price on 3 December 2025 Heading into Wednesday’s session (3 December 2025): In other words, Vodafone stock
3 December 2025
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Vodafone (VOD) News Today – 27 November 2025: UK 5G Upgrade, €1.6bn Vodafone Spain Windfall, India Bond Deal, and Fresh Analyst Calls

Vodafone (VOD) News Today – 27 November 2025: UK 5G Upgrade, €1.6bn Vodafone Spain Windfall, India Bond Deal, and Fresh Analyst Calls

Vodafone Group Public Limited Company (VOD) is back in the headlines today, 27 November 2025, with a cluster of developments spanning the UK, Spain, India and Eastern Europe. From a major UK network upgrade at VodafoneThree, to a €1.6bn shareholder return tied to Vodafone Spain, to high‑yield funding moves at Vodafone Idea and fresh analyst commentary, investors have plenty to digest. Key Takeaways for 27 November 2025 Below, we break down what each of today’s stories means for Vodafone shareholders and the wider telecoms landscape. VodafoneThree: UK Network Upgrade Accelerates Post‑Merger A major UK development today comes via VodafoneThree –
27 November 2025
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Vodafone Group PLC (VOD) Extends Buybacks as India Uncertainty Eases: Key News & Stock Moves on 26 November 2025

Vodafone Group PLC (VOD) Extends Buybacks as India Uncertainty Eases: Key News & Stock Moves on 26 November 2025

Vodafone Group PLC (LON: VOD, NASDAQ: VOD) continues its €500m buyback programme, edges higher in London, and gains a boost from improving sentiment around Vodafone Idea. Here’s what VOD investors need to know on 26 November 2025. London, 26 November 2025 — Vodafone Group Public Limited Company is back under the spotlight today as it logs another “Transaction in Own Shares” RNS, sees its London stock nudge higher, and rides improving sentiment around its Indian affiliate Vodafone Idea after fresh clarity on long‑running AGR dues.London South East+2Hargreaves Lansdown+2 At the same time, analysts and industry writers are digesting Vodafone’s stronger
26 November 2025
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Vodafone Group plc news today (19 November 2025): share buyback update, £3bn lawsuit risk, dividend countdown and growth outlook

Vodafone Group plc news today (19 November 2025): share buyback update, £3bn lawsuit risk, dividend countdown and growth outlook

London-listed Vodafone Group plc (LON: VOD) is back in the news on 19 November 2025 as investors digest fresh share‑buyback activity, an approaching ex‑dividend date, and ongoing legal and strategic developments that could shape the telecom giant’s next leg of its turnaround. Vodafone share price today: rally cools but gains hold Vodafone’s shares traded around 92.7p in London on Wednesday, edging lower by roughly 0.4% on the day after a strong run since its half‑year results earlier this month. The stock’s intraday range on 19 November sits between about 92.4p and 93.4p, with daily volume a little over 6.6 million shares.  Investing Despite today’s pause,
19 November 2025
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Why New Zealand’s Most Remote Farms Now Have Faster Internet Than Many City Homes

Why New Zealand’s Most Remote Farms Now Have Faster Internet Than Many City Homes

By 2025, about 69–70% of New Zealanders have fiber-optic internet at home. The Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) program had reached 87% of the population by the end of 2022. By mid-2023, fiber uptake reached 73% of premises passed, with fiber lines accounting for about 70% of fixed broadband connections. Spark, One NZ (formerly Vodafone NZ), and 2degrees collectively serve roughly 73% of the broadband market on the open-access UFB fiber network. Standard residential fiber plans offer 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps, Hyperfibre reaches 2–8 Gbps in some areas, and about 30% of new fiber subscribers choose gigabit speeds. 4G mobile coverage
21 August 2025
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August 2025 Tech News Roundup: GPT-5 Rocks AI, Pixel 10 Debuts, SpaceX Sets Launch Record & More

August 2025 Tech News Roundup: GPT-5 Rocks AI, Pixel 10 Debuts, SpaceX Sets Launch Record & More

OpenAI released GPT-5 on August 7, 2025, with a 256,000-token context window and added GPT-5-mini and GPT-5-nano variants. OpenAI published open-weight models GPT-OSS 120B and GPT-OSS 20B under the Apache 2.0 license on August 5, 2025, to run and fine-tune locally and counter China’s open-source progress. Anthropic expanded its Claude model to a 1,000,000-token context window, enabling analysis of entire codebases (over 75,000 lines of code per prompt). SpaceX achieved its 100th launch of 2025 on August 18, sending 24 Starlink satellites to orbit with a Falcon 9 booster on its ninth flight; the company plans up to 95 annual
20 August 2025
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From Satellite Struggles to Starlink: Inside Solomon Islands’ Internet Access Revolution

From Satellite Struggles to Starlink: Inside Solomon Islands’ Internet Access Revolution

The Coral Sea Cable System is a 4,700 km submarine fiber‑optic link completed in late 2019 and brought online in 2020, connecting Solomon Islands to Papua New Guinea and Australia with an initial 200 Gbps capacity and up to 20 Tbps total. Since going live, the Coral Sea cable has allowed ten times more data at the same price for users in Honiara and provincial capitals. Our Telekom launched 4G/LTE in Honiara in 2017, Bmobile-Vodafone followed around 2018, and by 2025 4G is present in parts of Guadalcanal, Malaita, Western, and Choiseul, with 50 remote villages lit in 2024–2025 via
17 August 2025
No Signal? No Problem – Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell Satellites Are Eliminating Dead Zones

Direct-to-Cell Revolution: What It Is and When It Will Work in Your Country

In August 2022, SpaceX and T-Mobile announced a partnership to add Direct-to-Cell texting via Starlink satellites, enabling roaming coverage for remote areas using SpaceX’s constellation. SpaceX launched the first Direct-to-Cell–equipped Starlink satellites in early 2024, and by mid-2025 there were about 400 such satellites in orbit. On January 8, 2024, SpaceX successfully sent a text message from a regular smartphone via a Starlink satellite through T-Mobile’s network. Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell service is expected to start with texting in 2024, add voice calls in 2025, and deliver modest data speeds later. AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 prototype uses a ~700 square-foot phased array
14 August 2025
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The Truth About Internet Access in Slovakia: How Fast, How Cheap, and Is Satellite the Future?

The Truth About Internet Access in Slovakia: How Fast, How Cheap, and Is Satellite the Future?

FTTH/B fiber is the dominant fixed broadband in Slovakia, delivering up to 1 Gbps download and hundreds of Mbps upload, with typical latency 5–20 ms, and by 2022 about 66.8% of households were covered by FTTP, with gigabit targets by 2030. DSL remains in use where fiber is not available, offering ADSL up to 8–20 Mbps and VDSL up to 50–100 Mbps, and as of late 2023 about 53% of households had ADSL/VDSL access. Cable Internet via DOCSIS 3.1 (UPC/Vodafone) provides up to 500–1000 Mbps down and 50–100 Mbps up with 10–30 ms latency, and about 17.9% of households are
11 August 2025
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Portugal’s Digital Revolution: Complete Guide to Internet Access and Satellite Services

Portugal’s Digital Revolution: Complete Guide to Internet Access and Satellite Services

By mid-2023, fixed fiber passed over 92% of Portuguese homes, with end-2023 FTTH/B connections totaling 3.24 million households versus about 1.3 million on cable. By June 2023, 5G coverage reached about 98.1% of households (low-band), and rural 5G coverage jumped to 87.5% by mid-2023 from 20% in 2022. As of June 2023, 97.6% of households had at least one fixed broadband connection, and 94.2% had access to Very High Capacity Networks (gigabit fiber or cable). The fixed broadband market is dominated by MEO (around 40%), NOS (about 35%), Vodafone (roughly 20%), and Digi/Nowo, collectively controlling about 96–97% of subscriptions. In
27 July 2025
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Inside Vanuatu’s Digital Leap: How Satellite Internet Is Transforming Island Connectivity

Inside Vanuatu’s Digital Leap: How Satellite Internet Is Transforming Island Connectivity

Vanuatu is a Y-shaped archipelago of roughly 80 islands with a population of about 330,000, of which nearly 74% live in rural areas. A 7.3-magnitude earthquake in late 2024 severed Vanuatu’s sole international submarine cable, the Interchange Cable Network (ICN1), causing a nationwide internet outage. The ICN1 is a 1,280 Gbit/s submarine fiber cable connecting Port Vila to Suva, Fiji, and its 2014 launch expanded national bandwidth by more than 200x. A second international cable, SMART TamTam, is under development to link New Caledonia to Vanuatu and is expected online around 2025, providing redundancy and climate-sensor capabilities. Since the 2014
24 July 2025
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Stock Market Today

BAE Systems share price: Buyback update and Launchpad incubator set up Feb 18 results

8 February 2026
London, Feb 8, 2026, 08:54 GMT — Market closed. BAE Systems plc (BAES.L) shares last closed up 1.2% at 1,879 pence on Friday, with about 5.6 million shares traded. The London Stock Exchange is shut on Sunday and the stock will reopen on Monday. (Investing.com) That next session lands with BAE’s full-year results due on Feb. 18, a date investors treat as the next real price setter. Traders are watching for guidance on 2026 sales and cash flow, and how much cash the group plans to send back to shareholders. (investors.baesystems.com) BAE has also put a new idea on the
Barclays share price jumps into earnings week: what to watch before Tuesday’s results

Barclays share price jumps into earnings week: what to watch before Tuesday’s results

8 February 2026
Barclays shares closed up 2.71% at 479.1 pence on Friday, ahead of full-year results and a targets update due Tuesday. Barclays and NatWest have both submitted offers for Evelyn Partners, with a deal announcement possible this week, according to Reuters. Mary Francis will retire from the Barclays board in May. Investors are watching for signals on costs, credit quality, and capital returns.
Rolls-Royce share price ends week higher on buyback update as RR.L eyes turn to results

Rolls-Royce share price ends week higher on buyback update as RR.L eyes turn to results

8 February 2026
Rolls-Royce Holdings shares closed at 1,229p on Friday, up 1.78%, as the FTSE 100 gained 0.59%. The company reported buying 742,570 shares on Feb. 5 as part of its £200 million buyback, bringing total repurchases to 12.66 million shares. Rolls-Royce will attend the World Defense Show in Riyadh, noting over 80% of its Saudi workforce are nationals.
Vodafone share price: Buyback kicks off, but Germany recovery is the next test for VOD.L

Vodafone share price: Buyback kicks off, but Germany recovery is the next test for VOD.L

8 February 2026
Vodafone (VOD.L) bought 27.1 million shares this week as its new buyback began, with the stock closing Friday up 1.47% at 110.6p after a sharp drop the day before. Investors remain focused on Germany’s service-revenue growth and the pace of buybacks ahead of Monday’s open. The company maintained full-year guidance after reporting 5.4% group service revenue growth in Q3, with Germany up 0.7%.
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