Company profile

Future of Vodafone Group

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Rank
178
| Quantumrun Global 1000

Vodafone Group plc is a British global telecommunications company, with headquarters in London. It predominantly conducts services in the regions of Africa, Oceania, Asia, and Europe. Among mobile operator groups worldwide, Vodafone ranked 5th by revenue and 2nd (next to China Mobile) in the number of connections. Vodafone owns and operates networks in different countries and has partner networks in additional countries. It's Vodafone Global Enterprise division that offers IT and telecommunications services to corporate clients in different countries.

Home Country:
Industry:
Telecommunications
Founded:
1998
Global employee count:
111556
Domestic employee count:
16733
Number of domestic locations:
1

Financial Health

Revenue:
$40973000000 GBP
3y average revenue:
$40515333333 GBP
Operating expenses:
$9161000000 GBP
3y average expenses:
$10952000000 GBP
Funds in reserve:
$10218000000 GBP
Market country
Revenue from country
0.19
Market country
Revenue from country
0.15

Asset Performance

  1. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Product and services (Europe)
    Product/Service revenue
    26699000000
  2. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Product and services (AMAP)
    Product/Service revenue
    13179000000
  3. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Common functions
    Product/Service revenue
    1095000000

Innovation assets and Pipeline

Global brand rank:
30
Total patents held:
191

All company data collected from its 2016 annual report and other public sources. The accuracy of this data and the conclusions derived from them depend on this publicly accessible data. If a data point listed above is discovered to be inaccurate, Quantumrun will make the necessary corrections to this live page. 

DISRUPTION VULNERABILITY

Belonging to the telecommunications sector means this company will be affected directly and indirectly by a number of disruptive opportunities and challenges over the coming decades. While described in detail within Quantumrun’s special reports, these disruptive trends can be summarized along the following broad points:

*First off, as Africa, Asia, and South America continue to develop over the next two decades, their populations will increasingly demand greater first world living amenities, this includes modern telecommunications infrastructure. Luckily, since many of these regions have been chronically underdeveloped, they have the opportunity to leapfrog into a mobile-first telecommunications network instead of a landline-first system. In either case, such infrastructure investment will keep telecom sector building contracts going strong into the foreseeable future.

*Similarly, internet penetration will grow from 50 percent in 2015 to over 80 percent by the late-2020s, allowing regions across Africa, South America, the Middle East and parts of Asia to experience their first Internet revolution. These regions will represent the biggest growth opportunities for telecom companies over the next two decades.

*Meanwhile, in the developed world, increasingly data-hungry populations will begin demanding ever greater broadband internet speeds, spurring investment into 5G internet networks. The introduction of 5G (by the mid-2020s) will enable a range of new technologies to finally achieve mass commercialization, from augmented reality to autonomous vehicles to smart cities. And as these technologies experience greater adoption, they will likewise spur further investment into building out nationwide 5G networks.

*By the late 2020s, as the cost of rocket launches becomes more economical (in part thanks to new entrants like SpaceX and Blue Origin), the space industry will expand dramatically. This will bring down the cost of launching telecom (internet beaming) satellites into orbit, thereby increasing the competition terrestrial telecom companies face. Similarly, broadband services delivered by drone (Facebook) and balloon (Google) based systems will add an additional level of competition, especially in underdeveloped regions.

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