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Vodafone K.K., the Japan unit of Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc , said on Monday it will start a new service next month that will make it easier for users to buy more minutes for their pre-paid phones. Pre-paid phones require customers to buy minutes in advance instead of subscribing to a monthly service. The company said users would be able to load up via cashing machines or Internet banking sites in addition to buying pre-paid cards or accessing Vodafone’s Web site. Vodafone, which is ... introducing a new pre-paid phone by Sharp Corp. , plans to start the new service on Oct. 17. Vodafone’s competitors led by NTT DoCoMo Inc. are moving away from pre-paid phones amid reports about fraud using the phones. The company said it was re-verifying user identification through the end of October to prevent the criminal use of the phones.
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Interim Management Statement for the First Quarter July 19 -- Vodafone Group Plc today announces its interim management statement for the quarter ended 30 June 2007. The key highlights of the quarter
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Vodafone K.K., the Japanese unit of Vodafone Group Plc, will increase spending on high-speed networks this year to improve coverage and services as it tries to keep customers from switching to NTT DoCoMo Inc. and KDDI Corp. Vodafone K.K. plans to spend 260 billion yen ($2.43 billion), mainly on high-speed, or third-generation, networks in the year ending March 31, said Tokyo-based spokesman Matthew Nicholson, confirming a Nihon Keizai report. The company, which buys network equipment from NEC Corp., Nokia Oyj and Ericsson AB, will build 5,400 base stations this year, raising the total by 30 percent. Vodafone Group Plc, the world’s largest mobile phone carrier, is struggling to compete against DoCoMo and KDDI, which together control 97 percent of Japan’s high-speed subscriber market. Vodafone K.K. last year cut its capital investment by a third to 166.7 billion yen.
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