Vodafone Italy
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| Type | Società per azioni |
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| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Ivrea (TO) |
Area served | Italy |
Key people |
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| Products | Mobile and fixed telephony, Fibre optic communication, ADSL |
Number of employees | 6,771 (2016) |
| Parent | Vodafone Group Plc (100%) |
| Subsidiaries | VEI S.r.l. |
| Website | www |
Vodafone Italia S.p.A.[1] is an Italian telephone company, which has approximately 26,000,000 mobile customers with a market share of 29.5% (placing itself behind Wind Tre and TIM) and 2,300,000 customers on fixed lines with a market share of 10.2% (behind Telecom Italia and Infostrada).[citation needed] Vodafone Italia is a fully owned subsidiary of Vodafone Group Plc (100%).
History[]
In December 1995, Omnitel Pronto Italia S.p.A. launched its services in Italy. Omnitel was a mobile operator, and Infostrada (then owned by Wind Telecomunicazioni) was a fixed-line operator. They belonged to Olivetti and represented the first telephone alternative to monopolists TIM and Telecom Italia.
Original majority owner Olivetti sold its interest in Omnitel and Infostrada to the German consortium Mannesmann (which had been a minority shareholder since 1997) after Olivetti's took control of Telecom Italia (and thus TIM). In 1999, Mannesmann took control of Omnitel with a 53.7% equity stake.
The following year, Vodafone purchased Mannesmann, thus taking control of Omnitel and creating the joint-stock company Vodafone Omnitel N.V., legally resident in the Netherlands. The Vodafone brand was introduced as Omnitel-Vodafonein 2001 and made the primary brand as Vodafone-Omnitel in 2002. The current name Vodafone Italia was introduced in 2003, dropping "Omnitel" altogether. Vodafone Italy introduced the new Speech mark Logo on 10 June 2007.
The company slogan varied from that of the international Vodafone campaign (Make the most of now) and was Life is NOW, but now is the same global one power to you. The company website was known as 190. it, as 190 is the customer care number for Vodafone Italy. Starting from July 2008, the company URL changed from "190. it" to "Vodafone. it". The company's spokesmodel from 1999 to 2006 (for both Omnitel and Vodafone) was the Australian model Megan Gale, which rose to fame thanks to these advertisements.[2]
Since taking over the company, Vodafone has introduced its suite of services in Italy, such as Vodafone live!, UMTS/HSPDA services, and has collaborated in partnership to launch Mobile virtual network operators for other corporations.
In 2007, like in Spain, Vodafone Italy bought the Italian branch of Tele2,[3] renaming later as in 2010, adding fixed-line network offers.
On 16 December 2013, Vodafone Omnitel N.V. changed its name to Vodafone Omnitel B.V. and became a limited liability company.[4]
On 23 November 2015, Vodafone Omnitel B.V. moved its legal residence back to Italy, changing its name to Vodafone Italia S.p.A. and became a joint-stock company again.[5]
On 5 June 2019, Vodafone Italia launched its commercial service with 5G technology, limited to certain areas of Bologna, Milan, Naples, Rome and Turin.[6]
The strategic plan Spring Vodafone provides coverage of 150 major Italian cities with their own fiber-optic network (FTTC or FTTH depending on location), to achieve by the end of 2016 25% of the Italian population as users, or more than 7 million Italian households and businesses.
Network and coverage (Italy)[]
Mobile network[]
The mobile network of Vodafone Italy is made (since updated to 03/31/2016) from 19,919 physical sites, of which:
- 17,613 base transceiver station GSM (2G)
- 18,989 base transceiver station LTE (4G)
Through which it was possible to achieve the following coverage of national mobile network:
| Network | Full Speed | Coverage | System | Update | |||
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| Download ↓ | Upload ↑ | Cities | Population (%) | Technology | Frequencies used | ||
| 2G | 99.8% | GSM / GPRS / EDGE | 900 MHz / 1800 MHz | February 2017 | |||
| 4G | 150 Mbit/s | 50 Mbit/s | 7,100 | 97.3% | LTE | 800 MHz 1800 MHz 2100 MHz 2600 MHz |
2021 |
| 225 Mbit/s | 1,500 | LTE-Advanced | |||||
| 4.5G | 550 Mbit/s | 75 Mbit/s | 8 | Three-Carrier 256-QAM | |||
| 800 Mbit/s | 2 | Quad-Carrier 256-QAM | |||||
International roaming[]
In addition, Vodafone Italy has signed international roaming agreements in 241 countries, including Russia and India, for a total of 731 operators.
Of these, about 150 operators allow you to reach the 4G-LTE coverage in 100 countries worldwide (updated on 06/30/2016).
Fixed network[]
| Technology | Full Speed | Coverage | Typology | Update | |
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| Download ↓ | Upload ↑ | ||||
| ADSL | 20 Mbit/s | 1 Mbit/s | dnp | WLR | |
| ADSL2+ | 52% of the population | ||||
| Fibra FTTC (VDSL2) |
100 Mbit/s | 20 Mbit/s | 1,152 cities | VULA | December 2017 |
| Fibra FTTH | 1 Gbit/s | 200 Mbit/s | Bari, Bologna, Cagliari, Catania, Genova, Milan, Naples, Padua, Palermo, Perugia, Turin and Venice |
GPON | December 2017 |
Thanks to the use of:
- 1,254 sites ULL and 326 sites SLU
- 19,000 ONU (cabinet) in fiber optic (FTTC)
Customers (in Italy)[]
Mobile Telephony[]
28.87 million mobile lines (for a market share of 29.4%)
19.51 million mobile lines consumer (25.6%) and 
9.39 million mobile lines business (42.7%);- 18.67 million mobile lines rechargeable (25.4%) and 10.15 million mobile lines prepaid (41.1%);
19.51 million mobile lines consumer (25.6%) and 9.0 million lines of 4G network
Fixed Telephony[]
2.31 million of total fixed lines (for a market share of 10.4%), of:
- 2.12 million fixed line broadband ADSL and fiber (for a market share of 13.6%).
- 700,000 fixed line fiber
M2M[]
5.8 million SIM (of which 47% is used in applications of info-mobility and Smart Card)
Source: Osservatorio trimestrale sulle Telecomunicazioni (Aggiornato al 30 settembre 2015)
Public Image[]
Spot Music Discography[]
References[]
- ^ "Chi siamo". www.vodafone.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-06-20.
- ^ Un'australiana di 23 anni la ragazza dello spot con i tasti del telefonino come impronte digitali Archived October 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Page 19 (16 April 1999) - by Veneziani Maria Teresa, Corriere della Sera
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-08. Retrieved 2010-01-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2016-09-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-12-01. Retrieved 2016-09-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "5G COMMERCIAL LAUNCH - Vodafone Italia switches on 5G in 5 cities". 2019-06-05. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
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