We need to have a fact-based risk-assessed review, people are saying things at the moment that are not grounded, I'm not saying that is the case for the U.S. because I have not met them directly myself so I have not seen what evidence they have, but they clearly need to present that evidence to the right bodies throughout Europe.

Nick Read

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Financially there's been a heavy burden through unsupportive regulation, excessive taxes and on top of that we got the negative supreme court decision.

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This is reflected in our return to top-line growth in the second quarter, which we expect to build upon in the second half of the year in both Europe and Africa.

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OpenRAN improves the network economics enabling us to reach more people in rural communities and that supports our goal to build digital societies in which no one is left behind.

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Vodafone is obviously a very high-quality anchor tenant and we've got very high-quality assets, and these opportunities don't come around there often, so people are very, very keen to pursue it with us.

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Given the scale and quality of our infrastructure, we believe there is a substantial opportunity to unlock value for shareholders while capturing the significant industrial benefits of network sharing for the digital society.

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This is a window of opportunity where 5G is launching into the ma... by Nick Read

This is a window of opportunity where 5G is launching into the market.

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Vodafone transforms into Europe's largest fully-converged communications operator, accelerating innovation through our gigabit networks and bringing greater benefits to millions of customers.

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Our service revenue growth came under further pressure - Spain remains a challenging market, South Africa experienced headwinds - plus clearly the German auction has risen to higher levels than expectation on top of extensive coverage obligations, which require capex.

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Twelve months back we had a good degree of headroom, by November we had sufficient headroom, and the headroom has been compressed in the last six months.

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It will delay 5G in Europe by probably two years, it structurally... by Nick Read

It will delay 5G in Europe by probably two years, it structurally disadvantages Europe.

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We are engaged with all (European) governments at the moment and we'd like them to arrive at a common set of understandings.

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We don't want multi-layers because then we'd be very slow and cumbersome, this should be for all vendors.

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You will see more of these going forward. by Nick Read

You will see more of these going forward.

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