As for the name of the Vodafone mobile phones, it is derived from ‘voice data phone’ that was chosen by the enterprise in order to ‘illustrate the offer of voice as well as data services over mobile phones.

In the year 2006, Vodafone mobile phones had customers in a range of 260 million across the stretch of five continents and twenty five countries (read markets). In the light of these facts and figures, Vodafone mobile phones could be easily categorized as the second largest mobile telecom group in the entire world, with China Mobile the only one ahead of the Vodafone enterprise.

Regarding the shares of the respective telecommunication companies, Vodafone owns about forty five percent of Verizon Wireless, which qualifies as America’s largest mobile telecommunication company. As for Vodafone magnitude of stake in the Asia-Pacific, it was in the July of 1993 that BellSouth (which is a New Zealand network) went live and later on in the October of 1993 that Vodafone Mobile phones inaugurated its division of Australia. Later on in the July of the year 1994, the Fiji network of Vodafone mobile phones also went live.

Many such acquisitions took place during the stretch of the decade of the nineteen nineties. For instance, in the November of the year 1998, the Vodafone enterprise acquired (read purchased) Bell South (New Zealand) and the purchased edition of the organization is referred to as Bell South New Zealand. A year later in 1999, it was J-Phone that launched the J-sky mobile internet service, which was a direct response to DocoMo’s i-Mode service. It was in the year 2000 (in the month of December) that the J-Phone’s network went live.

Many such acquisitions and mergers continued later on as well and every single one of them has further stamped the superiority of Vodafone in the international telecommunications market.