Vodafone Australia - Archive 2009

Synopsis

This report has been archived. Vodafone Australia is owned by Vodafone Group Plc and won Australia’s third mobile carrier licence in 1992 and began operations in 1993. It is now the third largest mobile carrier in Australia after Telstra and Optus. Early in 2009 Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Ltd and Vodafone Australia agreed to merge their Australian mobile telecommunications businesses. The merged entity will operate under the name VHA with products marketed under the Vodafone brand with the option to continue to operate the 3 brand. This report provides details on Vodafone’s operations up until the time of the merger.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Vodafone and Hutchison merge australian operations.
• 3. Company information
  • 3.1 Operating statistics
  • 3.2 Financial results
• 4. Market analysis
  • 4.1 Vodafone – Hutchison merger is good news for competition
  • 4.2 Before the Merger - Vodafone holds steady
  • 4.3 Regional expansion
• 5. Mobile access network
  • 5.1 3G and High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) network
  • 5.2 Managed network services
  • 5.3 IT transformation project of its back-end systems
  • 5.4 Crown Castle acquires Vodafone towers
• 6. Products and services
  • 6.1 Consumers
  • 6.2 Business
  • 6.3 Partnership with AAPT for fixed –mobile convergence SME product
• 7. Reselling agreements
  • 7.1 Crazy John’s
  • 7.2 Allphones
  • 7.3 Brightpoint partnership
• 8. Company history
• 9. Related reports

• Table 1 – Vodafone – Direct and MVNO mobile subscribers – 2006 - 2009
• Table 2 – Vodafone – 3G subscribers – 2007 – 2009
• Table 3 – Vodafone – Total voice minutes – 2005 - 2009*
• Table 4 – Vodafone revenue – 1996 - 2009
• Table 5 – Vodafone – Monthly prepaid / post-paid / blended ARPU – 2004 - 2008

• Exhibit 1 – Vodafone Australia at a glance