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The European Union's highest court ruled on Thursday that all-you-can-watch video products offered by Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom in Germany violated the bloc's rules on roaming and net neutrality.

India on Thursday proposed scrapping a controversial law that taxed companies retrospectively and said it will refund disputed amounts, a move that could potentially settle its multi-billion-dollar tax cases with Cairn Energy and Vodafone.

UK's Vodafone Group said on Friday it intends to launch additional share buy-back programmes over the next eight months to partially offset the increase in the company's issued share capital due to maturing of a convertible bond programme.

Vodafone executive Andrea Duilio has emerged as a top candidate to lead the Italian operations of European pay-TV company SKY, two industry sources told Reuters on Friday.

Ericsson said on Thursday it had won contracts from Vodafone to supply 5G core equipment for its standalone network in the UK and 5G core network in Germany.

Vodafone said on Monday that it has chosen Samsung Electronics as vendor for 5G network equipment and virtualised solutions in Britain, marking the entry of the South Korean company in Europe.

Vodafone's Italian unit has secured conditional approval from Rome to use equipment made by China's Huawei in its 5G radio access network, two sources close to the matter said.

Vodafone said it would increase investment in the mid-term because it saw growth opportunities in its markets in Europe and Africa.

Vantage Towers, the infrastructure unit of Britain's Vodafone, on Monday reported modest growth in underlying revenue and core profit that was in line with its own guidance in its first full-year results since floating on the Frankfurt stock exchange.

Vantage Towers, the infrastructure unit of Britain's Vodafone, on Monday reported modest growth in underlying revenue that was just shy of expectations in its first full-year results since floating on the Frankfurt stock exchange.

Mobile operator Vodafone Group Plc and Alphabet Inc's Google Cloud entered a strategic partnership to jointly develop data services, Vodafone said on Sunday.

Shares in Vodafone's Vantage Towers rose on Thursday in Germany's largest stock market debut since 2018, benefiting from strong investor appetite for infrastructure assets with stable returns.

Vodafone has priced shares in infrastructure unit Vantage Towers at 24 euros each, valuing the firm at 12.1 billion euros ($14.5 billion) in one of Europe's largest initial public offerings this year, Vantage Towers said.

Vodafone is expected to price shares in infrastructure unit Vantage Towers at 24 euros ($28.60) each in Europe's largest initial public offering of 2021, bookrunners on the deal said on Wednesday.

Vodafone Group's infrastructure unit Vantage Towers has covered the books on its initial public offering of shares in Frankfurt at a revised price range of 24 to 25 euros per share, a bookrunner on the deal said on Tuesday.

The bookrunners for the flotation of Vodafone's Vantage Towers narrowed the price range to 24-25 euros per share on Tuesday, adding that the book was covered through the new range and it would close on Wednesday at 1300 GMT.

Vodafone Group's infrastructure unit Vantage Towers has covered the books on its initial public offering of shares in Frankfurt at a revised price range of 24 to 25 euros per share, a bookrunner on the deal said on Tuesday.

* Towers in demand as European telecoms operators restructure (Updates with base deal books covered)

* Company aims to tap investor appetite for infrastructure (Adds largest European telecoms IPO in 17 years)