Vodafone Dublin News

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said it's concerned that Vodafone and Three's proposed merger could lead to mobile customers facing higher prices and reduced service quality. This comes after a 40-day review into the £15 billion ($18.5bn) merger, set to create the UK's big...

Vodafone has sold its Italian business to Swisscom for €8 billion in a deal which will see Swisscom merge Vodafone with its Italian subsidiary Fastweb. This merger was announced in Europe this week after the Spanish government approved the proposed Orange and MásMóvil merger. Margherita Della ...

Following an increasing number of criminal attacks at Vodafone’s Bracknell data center, the company is now making plans to upgrade security at this facility. Vodafone has received permission from the Bracknell Forest Council to install new security fences and gates, reconfigure the car park, a...

Vodafone, this week revealed that it has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy firm RWE to procure the output from the Kaskasi offshore wind farm, 35km off the coast of Heligoland. Following the terms of this agreement, Vodafone will procure 250GWh of energy each year, w...

Vodafone and UAE data center firm Edgnex announced their plans to form a joint venture in order to build a new data center in Turkey. This project is a $100 million data center in Izmir; a city in western Turkey on the coast of the Aegean Sea. It was also be Vodafone’s second in Izmir and sixt...

Iliad Group, owned by French tycoon Xavier Niel has submitted a proposal to Vodafone to merge the two telcos in Italy. In its offer, Iliad valued Vodafone Italia at €10.45 billion and is to receive €500 million in cash and 50 percent of the new business as part of the proposal with Vodafone re...

Vodafone has confirmed the sale of its Spanish business to UK investment firm Zegona for $5.3 billion. Once the transaction is completed, Vodafone will get about €4.1 billion in cash and up to €0.9bn in the Redeemable Preference Shares. Margherita Della Valle, chief executive of Vodafone, said...

Principal Asset Management bought two data centers located in Dublin, Ireland, that are leased. Principal European Data Centre Fund I has made its fourth and fifth investments in Europe, this time in the capital of Ireland, according to IPE Real Assets and PropertyEU. The company has acquired ...

Vodafone has signed a PPA with Iberdrola for 410GWh of annual solar spread across Spain, Portugal, and Germany, as part of the company's wider net-zero ambitions. The renewable energy comes from three solar plants, the Velilla solar PV plant located in Palencia, Spain, the Cedillo PV plant lo...

Savills is looking for buyers for the Network Portfolio, a collection of six buildings totaling 260,000 square feet. The portfolio is reportedly worth $128.3 million. The properties are leased to Vodafone Enterprise UK through April 2032. They generate $7.8 million per year in total passing re...

The Dublin, Ireland, two-story data center developing application has been retracted.  SDC Piperstown II Ltd submitted a request to Fingal County Council on January 17, 2023, for permission to build a data center on a 20-acre site in Piperstown, Dublin. But this has since been dropped, for no ...

Vodafone has announced that it is deploying solar panels at a mobile telephone exchange site in Gloucester, England, to cover approximately 12% of the site’s annual energy consumption requirements. This is in line with its wider energy efficiency goals and 2027 net-zero pledge.The telecoms pr...

Reportedly, Vodafone Group is contemplating proposals for its Spanish business, which could fetch as much as $4 billion. As first revealed by Bloomberg, potential purchasers, including Apollo Global Management, are showing interest in the operator's Spanish unit. According to sources familiar ...

Vodafone has announced the signing of a new PPA with Centrica and Mytilineos for solar power in the UK. The 10-year deal signed by the companies will see the telco procure energy from five solar farms in Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Dorset. In total, the energ...

According to reports, in the wake of the Dublin data center moratorium over grid issues, 21 new data centers are planned outside of the greater Dublin area. Sixteen of these facilities are large-scale data centers, while a further five smaller-scale data center projects are being discussed wit...

Following the Irish government's approval of the terms and conditions of ORESS 1, a huge auction for offshore wind, 2.5GW of renewable energy could be added to the grid, enough to power 2.5 million Irish homes with green electricity. According to reports, at least three offshore energy auction...

Vodafone has announced the sale of some of its stake in Vantage Towers to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and KKR while also creating a new joint venture with them. Per the deal, the tower unit is worth €16.1 billion ($16.1bn). The sale also sees Vodafone receive €3.2 billion ($3.2bn) ...

Vodafone NZ has sold off its tower infrastructure business. The deal is reportedly worth NZ $1.7bn ($1bn). One of the owners of Vodafone NZ- Infratil said the conditions for the transaction has been met and the sale was completed in the first week of November. Co-investors in Vodafone NZ- Infr...

According to Bloomberg, Investment company KKR is the frontrunner in the race to acquire Vodafone’s tower arm unit, Vantage Towers. The unit is worth a stunning $14 billion. KKR is competing with Cellnex Telecom for the acquisition. Vodafone is trying to sell off its 82% stake in the business ...

After much back and forth, South Dublin County Council (SDCC) is now complying with the government's order to scrap plans to ban data centers in the area, despite serious concerns about the environmental impact of additional facilities and the extra pressure the would place on the grid. This c...