{"id":486551,"date":"2010-03-29T14:08:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T18:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-03-29:article\/419-questions-arise-on-what-to-do-with-vodafones-stake-in-verizon-wireless"},"modified":"2010-03-29T14:08:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T18:08:47","slug":"vodafone-is-looking-for-ways-to-juice-its-stake-in-verizon-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/486551","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Is Looking For Ways To Juice Its Stake In Verizon Wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vodafone (NYSE: VOD<\/a>) has an on-again, off-again relationship with Verizon Wireless. Despite owning 45 percent of the largest U.S. wireless carrier, Vodafone hasn’t been happy with the returns on its investment. <\/p>\n

On some level, Vodafone should feel pretty good that it owns 45 percent of the largest U.S. wireless carrier. But Verizon Wireless hasn\u2019t paid a dividend to Vodafone since 2005, and instead has used the unit\u2019s proceeds for other purposes, including paying off debt associated with last year’s purchase of Alltel (NYSE: AT<\/a>). As an annual ritual, Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ<\/a>) and Vodafone are now holding informal talks on next steps. The possibilities include combining the two phone companies, having one carrier sell its stake in Verizon Wireless to the other, or starting to pay dividends, according to Bloomberg<\/a>, which quoted people familiar with the situation.\n<\/p>\n

While a merger with Verizon could make sense for both parties, it will be a few more years before they are using the same network technologies.  Verizon Wireless’ U.S. network has worked on CDMA, while Vodafone’s network has been primarily based on GSM technologies. Going forward, both will transition to LTE for 4G. Meanwhile, Verizon and Vodafone, the largest carrier in the world, have launched a handful of devices together that have chipsets that are compatible with both companies’ phones, so that customers can travel between the U.S. and Europe.\n<\/p>\n

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Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) has an on-again, off-again relationship with Verizon Wireless. Despite owning 45 percent of the largest U.S. wireless carrier, Vodafone hasn’t been happy with the returns on its investment. On some level, Vodafone should feel pretty good that it owns 45 percent of the largest U.S. wireless carrier. But Verizon Wireless hasn\u2019t paid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}