Hutch renamed to Vodafone in India

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Hutch and Vodafone logo Today, in India, Hutch becomes Vodafone. Now, the pink color logo of Hutch will be replaced by Vodafone Essar’s corporate red colored one.

In 2005-06, the Orange brand in Mumbai was phased out to introduce Hutch. The company also changed the colors of its logo from orange to pink last year.

After acquiring 67 per cent of stake (around Rs. 250 crores) in Hutchison Essar from Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa, Vodafone Essar is expecting to touch over 35 million customers across 400,000 shops and thousands of Hutch’s own employees along with employees of its business associates.

Asim Ghosh, MD, Vodafone Essar, said “We’ve had a good innings as Hutch in India and today marks a new beginning for us, not as a departure from the fundamentals that created Hutch, but an acceleration into the future with Vodafone’s global expertise.”

Vodafone CEO and Vice-Chairman Arun Sarin of the joint venture Vodafone Essar will be landing in India for the meeting that would discuss branding exercise, expansion plans, spectrum requirements for its expanding subscriber base and future plans.

We can now perhaps expect cheap mobile phones in the country with the brand-name of Vodafone.

117 Responses

  1. Anurag Gangal

    When will Vodafone mobile services be available in Jammu and Kashmir?

  2. anil

    Through hutch we are satisfied more bcz of changing name we are feeling bad.its better to keep name as hutch

  3. Amit

    To download vodafone logo. Send Vodafone as sms to 56565. Only for NOKIA users

  4. bino ajith.d

    Hi evrybody,i am bino from south tamilnadu.i am lived in a small village from k.k.districkt.there too peoples using in a hutch.this one so many specilities and best service.so we are using VODAFONE-thank you

  5. yadwinder singh

    hi vodafoe!

    well come to punjab. i m using hutch since it came to our town..
    i m a villzr n hutch having a good coverage area througout punjab .
    it gave gud service \..

    as i use hutch n still vodafone.. so i know all its technical errors,i think wich u dont know. which r harmful with your business plan. i want to convey it 4 u .4 this u shuld talk to me.
    hope u wil contect to me ..
    gud luck.

  6. K.SUDARSAN

    Dear sir,

    At present I am using V800-vodofone mobile set. I couldn’t get the vodofone logo in my phone. My service provider is HUTCH. In my cell phone pre-installed settings with regard to vodofone live, vodofone vide, etc.but I couldn’t operate it. Kindly suggest the ways and means.

    with regards
    Ever yours,
    K.sudarsan

  7. Ajith

    I am belongs to the part of India, Kerala. I am a subscriber of Hutch mob since long time. Hutch was provided a better service to the customers I believe. Hope VODAFONE will also do much more service to the customers than Hutch. We hearty welcome VODAFONE in india.

  8. Amit

    I am leaving in village there was no tower of hutch but when named changed now there is tower of vodafone this is to increase the number of custmers in my villege means fast services provider to the custemer

  9. jijo abraham

    hutch is now vodafone but! this companydonotpublish any offers that is very bad!!!!!!!!!!!!

  10. DIPANKAR BANERJEE

    looking for contact email id of marketing head in kilkata

  11. Mohammad Liyaqhat

    Hi Vodafone,

    Welcome to Hyderabad. I m belongs to Hyderabad & i m subscriber of Hutch mobile since 3 yrs. Hutch was good service provider. Ihope Vodafone to good service provider. Welcome yo India Vodafone

  12. milind chaudhari

    hi vodafone welcome to faizpur in maharashtra,
    iam belong to maharashtra and i am leaving i n faizpur village , in the village vodafone coverage is very good

  13. Deepak mahapatro

    I am the user of vodafone.now i am in mumbai.But when will it comes to orissa which is my native place.

  14. veerendra

    plz publish new offer on the vodafone tel-com sit where customers are comfortable to take their plan pre-paid or postpaid telcom circlewise.

  15. veerendra

    Plz publish new offer or plan on vodafone site tel-com circlewise

  16. sowjanya

    hi vodafone i belong to hyd.my request is iam not getting voafone on my mobile

  17. ved prakash

    plz publish the total information about GPRS AND INTERNET service

  18. v.p.sachdev

    i am from ahmedabad and using prepaid service of vodafone.i need email id of customercare manager of ahmedabad or gujarat.
    thanks and regards
    sachdev

  19. skyguy

    i m a costomer of hutch from last three year, it is a good connection.

  20. Shahbaz

    Hello vodafone
    i like your service very much and its internet service faster and better than hutch
    thank you for a better service

  21. Mahesh Kulkarni

    SMS are been not sent from my vodafone postpaid card, i put the card in different hand sets but not resulted,please advice.

  22. Mahesh Kulkarni

    it’s very difficult to get your customer care executive on 111.

  23. Maneesh

    Shall we change Postpaid connection to prepaid, without change in Number.

  24. varma

    I want to know how to send pager alerts through net to a vodafone mobile. i am unable to send pager alerts to my vodafone mobile. how can i use this paging?

  25. VIKAS GANDOTRA

    When will be vodafone operative in jammu, Also how to get Franchisee of Vodafone in jammu or have space to provide them for Branch/ Customer Care Center/Call Centre.

  26. faijur

    my sim has a validity of two years, so any plan is not actvateted in it. i want to actiate Re.1 STD plan ote same sim plz reply as soon as possible

  27. ARV

    Sir,
    Humble requested, change costumer care polices because whom ever working in care center most of number doesn’t behavior what need for costumer. Their behavior are the worst.

  28. M.Ch.Shiva Prasad

    i am a costomer of hutch from last three year, it is a very good service

  29. jamna rawat

    dear fodafone ! i have been using your service since march 2007. in punjab u were providing different services, specially for youths u had been a great service provider in term of different plans and tariffs. but in uttarakhand u don’t have much plans or tariffs for massages. i request u to introduce new plans for prepaid customers so that students like us may be able to afford your services. THANKS

  30. jamna rawat

    dear fodafone ! i have been using your service since march 2007. in punjab u were providing different services, specially for youths u had been a great service provider in term of different plans and tariffs. but in uttarakhand u don’t have much plans or tariffs for massages. i request u to introduce new plans for prepaid customers so that students like us may be able to afford your services. THANKS

  31. Vinod.S

    EAST r WEST VODOFONE s Best Network

    NORTH r SOUTH OTHER NETWORK r Waste

  32. SAMIR

    TO,
    MANAGER.

    THERE ALWAYS BE A PROBLEM FOR GPRS ACCSESS AT NIGHT HOURS..
    I AM HAPPY WITH NETWORK AND OTHER SERVICES BUT GPRS PROBLEM BOTHERS ME MUCH..
    PLEASE WORK OUT THIS PROBLEM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

  33. vinod kumar M

    Vodafone has drawn the amount through my credit card for two post paid connections with out issuing SIM Card
    for which i applied 3 months before.

    iam not getting proper reply from them, i requested to refund deduted amount through the credit card, they said they will give waiver.

    Can any one help me in this regard???????????

  34. vinod kumar M

    Iam prepaid customer, I have some problem with postpaid connection, how can speak to the postpaid customer care ?

  35. asishkumar

    I am presently persuing with MBA.I’ve good expirience in netwok company.I want to wok in vodafone company.please give asistance to face
    an interview to get a well opportunity.asish kumar mondal.

  36. syed kareem

    i am a costomer of hutch from last 8 year, it is a very good service
    but vodafone not good service, reason hutch is lowest call rates high validety
    but voda fone is higest call rates, lowest validity and no offers
    hutch costomer care execitives are very good respons but vodafone costomer care execitives is no respons

  37. Isha

    Hi,

    I want to work with Vodafone. I am an HR with IT company.

    I am using Vodafone from the day I started using GSM services.

    Isha

  38. Sahil Gandhi

    Hi….. I sahil gandhi pursuing my MBA from University Of Pune with marketing specilisation looking forward to build my career with Vodafone, please help me out in suggesting the right process to get in. Thank you.

  39. Parthasarathy

    I will be leaving on a monthlong tour to Austalia & New zealand.I may require a card with global roaming facility for a month.Pl suggest aproduct & its source of supply and the cost.

  40. BNSINHA

    Hi vodafone
    please arrange to give me the information about networking in Bihar
    please give some e-mail addresses of marketing of vodafone Patna, Samastipur,Muzafferpur.

    We also want co-operate for world class sevice provider to our ruler INDIA

  41. FAIZAL K S

    i am customer for hutch from last year they not give unlimited internet service like airtel pls introduse plan like that i expect it from VODAFONE

  42. sandeep

    Hi,

    I am sandeep from dhanbad(Jharkhand).
    vodafone
    please give me the information about networking in Jharkhand
    if networks are not available then service is when provided by vodafone
    i still waiting from a long time to till date

  43. nani

    i am nani from last 4 months i am using vodafone but i am not satisfied with vodafone customer services because they will not providing real information.

  44. Prashant Rana

    Hi Vodafone!!!!!!!!!!

    Please try to give some information before deducting a money from the balance otherwise it is just becomes useless cellular network in india out of other network.

  45. Kunal Kanti Tarawal

    very desatisfaied with service. call drop occures frequently. no solution found from coustomer service executives.can not make call above 2 or three minutes and it showes “network rejected”, some time suffered with cross connection. Plz give any soln.

  46. prem

    i like vodafone…………….but the thing i dont like is i am continously getting the cal from the customer care regarding their scheme …..so you try to avoid that…..then get me an sms pack like other networks.

  47. girish

    Hi vodafone.

    My name is Girirsh.S, I m a customer of Hutch now Vodafone since three long years. The caption which hutch used to say i.e., “Hi” was very much pleasant. As a vodafone. I request you to find a better word than “HELLO” which can replace “Hi”. Such that it sounds pretty good. As n when we call the customer care or whenever we meet an Vodafone Outlet.

  48. Jishma Vasu

    sir,
    I am a MBA student from ICFAI in Kannur,Kerala. i have a project based on promotional strategies of Vodafone in Kannur District. So kindly requesting to help me by providing sufficient datas. Especting ur response soon. thanking u.

  49. Jaya Prakash

    Dear Vodaphone team
    I am a subscriber of Hutch (Vodafone) for past 2 years bearing 3 mobile connections. Yesterday I couldn’t able to make any out going calls (even to customer care) and gives a message “submit your application form with your photo graph and address proof”, which was already given while purchasing the SIM cards and using without any problem for all these days. How can you block the service to my number without any prior information to me? When called to customer care, he replies that the hutch dealer didn’t provide your application form to us, so you please provide the application form with photograph and address proof to any vodaphone customer care office.
    If the dealer didn’t submit the application form, you have to ask him or you have to take action against him.
    You didn’t communicated this to me all these days or atleast before blocking the service to my number and suddenly you have blocked the service to my number.

    How can you do this?.

    Regards
    Jaya Prakash.R

  50. r agarwal

    as i heard that voda fone is soon going to launch in orissa .so please tell the concerned person to whom i contact in orissa so that i can get my work out .

  51. MD. MOAZZAM

    as i heard that voda fone is soon going to launch in jharkhand .so please tell the concerned person to whom i contact in jharkhand so that i can get my work out

  52. arun pillai

    hey tis is Arun pillai here.. I’m frm mysore… and usin vodafone (hutch) frm past 5 years………………

    it’s just cool

  53. rakeshsriram

    im living in hyderabad. really the vodafone service is stupid, if we want to speak in mobile we shud get on to top of the roof or we shu stand on the road.. if we move a little bit that call will be disconnected… im unable to change my service because i have 6years of validity.. really im so frustated with this stupid vodafone.. i & all my friends call vodafone as stupid vodafone..

  54. srikanth

    i want to buy vodafone mobile so i want to know the basic starting price and the tariff of the usage

  55. srikanth

    i want to buy the least price mobile phone to buy from vodafone so what is the price

  56. Archana

    this is the worst network and customer service i hav ever seen in my life…..so bad…so yakky and wat not to say more………..my god i donno knw…………….

  57. zain

    sir,
    my no got miss palce.now some body is using my no.right now iam in uae.so cant contact this number.when iam calling time,not picking phone also.so plze i want call details of my mobile .no .9846296907.i will be reach india after 1 year.so plzz mail me about the details& which network this number is using also.
    thanks.

  58. atanu

    I have two connection of vodafone but i m not satisfied with it.When we recharge then the service charge will deduct, after that if u want reduce ur call rate then recharge power card. WHY? So why u cut the service cherge.U look the neubour country Bangladesh,there is so cheap,nd lots of good offer.U only do ur business.Pls think about that.

  59. anand

    vodafone simply super and it’s network covered in all areas. iam use

  60. Anthony Dass

    I have three lines connected with Vodaphone. On the 9th December 2008 at 1200hrs I had requested for a duplicate bill copy thru my email address which was provided to the officer (Reshmi) on the telephone. Till today that is 10th December 1300hrs have not received the duplicate copy of the bill. I had made a call 3 times and each time one officer answers and say sorry we will send it to you in 2 hrs time and when I started shouting the officers pretend to say sorry I can’t hear you and disconnects the line.

    See how efficient Vodaphone is. I regret taking the three lines and also I have all my staff to take up the lines as corporate lines. What a stupid mistake I have made.

    Thank you for Vodaphone to make the customer’s suffer. And also change the word “customer care service” of yours to “giving customer trouble service”. That is very appropriate for your services.

  61. Bineesh

    I am using hutch fon for two year now vodafone. in my mobile i cannot get custumer care. i had complainted many tims but they did’t take any action please don;t do like this………

  62. pavan

    i m using vodafone since 2 months,
    its good but thr is a lot of prob vth signals…
    kindly help me
    try 2 lay a tower in balanagar which is in hyderabad (andhra pradesh) pin:500042

  63. Mriganka

    Dear Sir,

    i am mriganka from guwahati(Assam),i want the e-mail id and contact number of marketing head for vodafone in north east,i am interested to open a customer service point so plz send me the details

    thank you

  64. James

    I want to now how do i get the tower in our area(Tolichowki) as i have space to install tower at a height of 40 feet

  65. Neeraj Bhardwaj

    hi, i am from SOLAN a beautiful fast growing town of HIMACHAL PARDESH and im listening from last 6 months that VODAFONE is also coming HIMACHAL PARDESH, so plz tell me when it is to be launch in HIMACHAL PARDESH,and i also want to work with u and will give a good response to u, i want to be the distributer of ur postpaid conections or agency of SOLAN district and plz also give me the number of ur employee who has got the charge of HIMACHAL.

  66. Chuanga

    Having nearly 20 years experience in electronic media, we would like to diversify our business with your esteemed company. We have a good space to offer at Zarkawt (the heart of the city)
    Please contact for business partners

  67. Sundaresan, Advocate, Tirupur.

    I am in Tiruur, Tamil Nadu, and I was a customer of BPL, which was taken over by Hutch and later taken over by Vodafone. I am happy about it. But I expect more services from Vodafone, like more clarity, more coverage, instead of usual ringtone, song tunes to all, (personalised caller tunes are different) and more.

  68. Doo Dah

    Whats wrong with all you dumb fucks!! This site does not belong to vodafone and your writing such as dear vodafone, i mean whats going on people.

  69. kopaniyabharat

    please check the my village covrage and please the your tower in my village
    my add.
    to.vavadi
    ta.dhrangadhra
    dist.surendranagr

  70. Faruk

    please give me the phone number and the email id of Vodafone Office at Guwahati,Assam.

  71. BANTI

    Sir,
    Currently working as distributor for a good mobile sector at kahalgaon in bhagalpur district in bihar. Kahalgaon is a subdivision with all mobile towers and ha got reach in part of Jharkand and other side of ganga i.e katihar, purnia which is about 9 k.m air distance erom kahalgaon. Kahalgaon has got population of 4 lacs with a N.T.P.C in town and has got huge rural population.
    We have sufficient funds and man power to control business of mobile lines.
    Please contact us if you need a good distributor at kahalgaon. We have a person worked in top multinational company and have detail knowledge of the area.
    with regards
    Navin

  72. devaram kharol

    shall we change postpsid conection to prepaid,without change in number

  73. Gulshan Kumar

    Vodafone,s welcome to Himachal Pradesh

    Gulshan Kumar

  74. ROHIT SANGRA

    hutch is visting bin jammu and as a coomunication engineer im looking for a job in

  75. rizwana

    i like vadofone………pls make 30p add ons in to ten paise

  76. Arun

    Hi i’m using vodafone. i want to cantact customer care.So pls send me the customer care no for chennai.

  77. Anoop Nambiar

    Example for excellent service.
    I am having a CUG mobile connection, The line disconnected due to non-payment of bill by the earlier user of this no. I paid it. But even after 20 days the line is still not restored !!.

  78. Anoop Nambiar

    Example for excellent service !!
    I am having a CUG mobile connection from VODAFONE. The line was disconnected due to non-payment of bill by the earlier user of this no. I paid it. But even after 20 days the line is still in disconnected condition.

  79. dolly sawanee

    I kindly request vodafone to take care of customer support, customer care executives are really pathetic and they do not know what is customer service they are rude and their behaviour is pathetic please teach them the atticates and values while attending calls, and does vodafone care for customer satisfaction all the matrix come only aftr that if vodaphone understands the actual meaning of customer care, it would be a great help if this is taken care of and last but the most important if the customer wants to talk to the supervisor the executives becoem very rude and irate please help the customers thanks.

  80. prithviraj

    customer care in vodafone is very good…………… compare to other companies………. vodafone is better …….. they are giving offers frequently……….. they are repecting there customers

  81. Mahendra Bagaria

    Dear Vodafone Team,

    I wish to bring to the notice of the concerned authorities of Vodafone Essar Spacetel Ltd. in India that my R.C.C. building (G+1) was selected for the roof top tower in our area and accordingly they got an agreement signed by me with a monthly rent of Rs. 5,000/- subject to an enhancement of 15% after every 5 years. However, it is almost a year but neither the rent has been paid to me nor the construction work has begun. I request the concerned authorities to kindly look into the matter and do the needful. Thanks.

  82. AMAR SINGH PARIHAR

    HI,
    I AM AMAR AND USING VODAFONE POSTPAID SERVICE . I THINK VODAFONE IS TOO BETTER THAN OTHER.

    THANK U

  83. Sreejith

    I m Sreejith and using Vodafone prepaid service. It is better than other networks. But GPRS charges are too high. On April 1, I got a message for offering unlimited dowloadings. I just inter in to the link by accident, and open those page only 15 seconds. But I lost 90 Rupees.

    Now I m going to deactivate my GPRS service

  84. pankaj

    vvodafon has stopped customeercare service from 111????????????

  85. christian jayesh

    pls……… my cell is china model . not china number is hand set.., to vodafone is a setting in GPRS…. to send to my mail id i am waiting for your ans… VOdAFONE CARE TO MY QUATION……………. What do u ?

  86. vedraj

    hello,glad to hear that v’fone is launching its communication sector in j&k im intrstd in franchise.nd i hv a big space on rent fr office or other business purpose at udhampur city of j&k.my contact no. 09419294333

  87. emdem

    I am based in Delhi and had been a very satisfied Post-Paid customer of Hutch for the past 4 years, and never even considered switching to any other service providers. I was more excited to hear about the news that Vodafone intended on buying out Hutch in India, as I expected nothing less from such a big company – new plans, better signals, better network, more add-on services, etc…

    The buy-out did happen, as expected, and Vodafone started taking control of everything. So much so to my disappointment, the signal starts dipping from Week One. I had been noticing this week after week, months after months and it continues till date.

    I have no clue what kind of business they’re really interested in. Why do they come here in the first place when they can’t deliver something up to the satisfaction of their customers? It’s in fact a big SHAME on the very poor performance of such a big company! A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT TO MOST OF THE SUBSCRIBERS TOO.

    I am already getting very frustrated over this and want them to know that for every disappointment that they bring (and that they couldn’t rectify), they’re soon going to lose faithful customers, like me, one by one. Who would want to stick to something that is not much of help to you anyway? After all, if they call it business, we call it customer satisfaction and if neither won’t compromise, the other will have to find something better – i.e., leave.

  88. RAJESH MISHRA

    This is a big deal by voda fone in INDIA , i am in BHOPAL please start your service in bhopal , We are wating you.
    THANKS

  89. Pramod Baghel

    Vodafone is one of the best orgni. to work with and also the service of the Company is V Good in comprasion with the Other Operator.

    Best Of Luck to the Vodafone Team.

  90. tunge

    plz give me vodafone office office no., email id, and office in charge no. or emal id. of assam

  91. dhiraj

    kindly give me the customer care number of vodafone in jammu. n i also want 2 know that who is the head of vodafone in jammu. is he of d rank of ceo or area manger give his cel no. please do reply

  92. debasish

    i need the hr email add of vodafone for assam. can i get it from u people. plz.

  93. Ashok S. Muravane

    Dear All Concerned,

    I am very sorry to state that, I am totally unhappy with Vodafone network, at least in Bangalore, specially when it became Vodafone from Hutch.

    I had complained to Nodal Officer here, who ends up giving only stereo type answers, whatever mail I write to him. Vodafone is unable to find solutions to my problems.

    I am seriously thinking switching over to other service provider, as early as possible.

    They are unable to sort out my problems.

  94. umesh kumar keshri

    Airtel, Aircel, BSNL and Reliance have already established their towers in PITHORIA, Dist. RANCHI, JHARKHAND. It will be great pleasure for us if you provide your network here. If you are willing to establish your tower, I can provide you the required space. Please send me the address and contact no. to whom I must contact for this purpose.