Europe Pressures Weigh on Vodafone

According to the UK mobile phone group–Vodafone, it is reported that its slightly better than expected first-quarter results. However, Vodafone’s performance was greatly influenced by the economic downturn in southern Europe and the regulatory pressures in northern Europe.
The company generated £11.7bn of revenue in the first quarter of its 2011-12 financial year, which is up [...]

Analyst Attacks Vodafone’s ‘Depressingly Thin’ Talent Pool

Vodafone, the UK’s third-largest company, has a ‘worrying lack of commercial savvy’ and a “depressingly thin” talent pool.
In an unprecedented open letter to Vodafone’s chief executive and board of directors, Robin Bienenstock, a analyst at Bernstein Research, said Vodafone had the potential to become the “most compelling transformational story” in the telecoms industry, but warned [...]