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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