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Vodafone is coming to the Philippines?!

A new telco is coming to town and its name is Vodafone. Arguably the largest telecoms company in the world (based on revenues) and the 2nd largest in terms of subscriber base, Vodafone Philippines has started putting up their accounts for the Philippines in preparation for the official launch.

Though this is not official yet, Vodafone’s Twitter and Facebook accounts have been set up to reflect their Philippine presence.

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Vodafone is present in over 30 countries worldwide and with 40 other partnerships with other telcos. They have operations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the United States. In the Philippines, Vodafone lists Smart as one of its partners (probably for roaming?).

Vodafone is into the fixed line services, mobile phone service, internet and digital TV. Will post more udpates once we get a confirmation.

Hat tip to @jonjongoco.

Update: It is possible this could be a partnership with San Miguel which already owns 75% of Eastern Telecoms, and also owns Liberty Telecom and Bell Telecom.

According to San Miguel’s website:

San Miguel’s fledgling telecommunications business has seen the addition of Bell Telecommunications Philippines, Inc., our second telecoms platform after Liberty Telecommunications Holdings, Inc. Bell Tel will give San Miguel entry into the wireless voice, data and video connectivity business, expanding the scope of the company’s telecom offerings. At present, Liberty has signed on an estimated 70,000 subscribers to its internet broadband and WiMAX services. In December 2010, San Miguel acquired a stake in Eastern Telecommunications Philippines, Inc.

It is possible the partnership with Vodafone will be focused on voice services with Vodafone as the official name carrier.

Note: I’d like to go back to my Top 10 predictions for 2012 and write off #7.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

70 Responses

  1. Avatar for Neil Dennison Neil Dennison says:

    Please, could you let me know if this Vodafone incursion to the Philippines is confirmed.
    If it is, why is it only having 3G???

  2. Avatar for aimee aimee says:

    bakit di ko ma openline vodafone ko

  3. Avatar for Bryan Bryan says:

    Please anything just to get out of globe. they suck big time!

  4. Avatar for MsD MsD says:

    hi, can you give me location of vodafone service center (Phils) i need to request to configure my unit (vodafone 555 blue)
    thanks

  5. Avatar for Bob Bob says:

    It’s Smart… http://smart.com.ph/corporate/newsroom/SmartMobileServicesVodafone.htm

  6. Avatar for nexusboy nexusboy says:

    San Miguel Corp should just operate their new mobile network RIGHT NOW! i can’t wait any longer.. it’s just Smart and Globe these days, and these two craps are claiming they’re NUMBER ONE! what the heck!

  7. Avatar for Mel R. Mel R. says:

    It could be that Vodafone is just opening a back-office/call center operation here, just like TELUS (Canada’s 2nd largest Telco) and not have any actual local operations in the PH.

  8. Avatar for Niknok Niknok says:

    Welcome to Vodafone!

    We hope you’re here to kick some telco butts, provide better services, and not collude with the “competition”.

  9. Avatar for john john says:

    Yup, this is as true as Maria Ozawa’s FB casting call! Yeah!!!! Lezgo!

  10. Avatar for Anonymouse coward Anonymouse coward says:

    i had infos from a very reliable grapevine – a team of corporate lawyers, they started documenting and registering and stuff since 2007. But it looks like its materializing soon. most probably next year because marketing research is not yet done.. oops.

  11. Avatar for Jason Jason says:

    I think, they have been registered the 2 domains: vodafone.com.ph (registered by Vodafone Group Plc, ) and vodafone.ph (registered by Vodafone Group Services Limited).

    SOURCE: http://kabayantech.com/2012/02/vodafone-philippines/

  12. Avatar for Jason Jason says:

    They have their own YouTube account!
    http://www.youtube.com/vodafonePhilippines

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