Vodafone Australia

Company profile
Vodafone Australia operates a GSM digital mobile network that covers 92 per cent of the Australian population. Vodafone's Globalstar satellite service, launched in May 2000, offers 100 per cent geographic coverage of Australia with an integrated GSM/satellite handset. The company offers GPRS (General Packet Radio Services) on the network to its customers and continues to upgrade its network to allow the company to deliver mobile Internet services at data transmission speeds which are significantly faster than the existing GSM networks can deliver. In March 2001, the company bid 253.5 million to secure a national licence of 2 GHz spectrum for the delivery of third generation (3G) mobile telephony services. Vodafone Australia has more than 2 million customers, which is approximately an 18 per cent share of the Australian mobile market.
