Taking advantage of a press conference in London, the operator took stock of its activities and as reported in its edition of the newspaper day economic Les Echos, the heart of the activity of the operator moved the Eastern Europe.

But Eastern Europe is not the only target of Vodafone, which is also very interested in the high-potential market in India.

In early 2007, he also bought for 7.5 billion euros giant Indian telephony: Hutchinson Essar. Read this article about our ambitions on the Indian Vodafone.

According to market research conducted by the operator, the Indian market is very promising estimates that the turnover of the telecom market (fixed and mobile) in India will increase from 22.3 billion in 2006 to 54.1 billion dollars by 2011.

In the area of telephony, the European market begins to reach saturation, and this is the main reason why the Briton is looking to the markets of emerging countries. Today, a quarter of the turnover of Vodafone is done in these countries.

Questioned by Les Echos, the Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Arun Sarin said: "emerging countries account for a third of gross operating surplus (EBITDA) of the group by 2012."

In terms of market share, India now occupies the top spot with 37 million customers, just ahead of Germany and its 33 million customers. And this figure does not go Indian stop there since the motive is not yet truly democratized in the country.

Thus it is estimated that nearly 7 million Indians adopt the mobile every month. Today India has 213 million users of mobile terminals, and by 2010 they should be 500 million for a population of more than 1 billion people.

Finally, to conclude on the news of Vodafone, the operator has won the second mobile phone licence in the Qatar before AT & T and Verizon. The amount of the acquisition was not disclosed, but it is an important victory for the British account prevail in the region.