
Nick Read
ABOUT 380,000 Irish investors in the original Eircom float in 1999 became shareholders in Vodafone in 2001 when the mobile phone business Eircell was spun off, with shareholders getting €3.6bn worth of Vodafone stock. The latter became the dominant mobile phone force in Ireland, inheriting Eircell’s 1.5 million mobile customers. In recent years, Vodafone has… Read more »
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