Vodafone on Friday said it would open 150 stores and 1,000 mini-stores across India by March 2015 to market its services.

Kavita Nair, Senior Vice-President, Retail and Digital, Vodafone India, said here the company’s 1,000th retail outlet was launched with the unveiling of a Global Design Store in Ahmedabad on Friday.

Vodafone now has outlets in three formats and, as the largest telecom network in Gujarat, has 1.78 crore customers in the State. It covers 94 per cent of the population in Gujarat and has a 37.64 per cent market share in revenues.

Six angel stores of Vodafone in Gujarat are wholly operated by women, said Brajesh Bajpai, Business Head, Gujarat.

Vodafone owns 9,000 retail touch-points across India, including 1,000 in Gujarat.