Vodafone Group Public Limited Company provides mobile telecommunication services worldwide. It offers mobile voice, messaging, data, and fixed line services; back-up services; machine-to-machine connections; and financial services, such as money transfer, airtime top-up, and bill payment, as well as sells smartphones and tablets. The company also provides hosting and cloud services, including fully managed hosting solutions, as well as cloud computing, co-location, server and website hosting, storage, and security. It serves approximately 404 million customers worldwide. The company sells and distributes its products through approximately 15,000 Vodafone branded retail stores, a network of distribution partners, and third party retailers, as well as the Internet. Vodafone Group Public Limited Company was founded in 1984 and is based in Newbury, United Kingdom.