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Vodafone due to see '£20bn loss'

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mzqa395
mzqa395 Posts: 376 Forumite
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5025128.stm

Mobile phone firm Vodafone is expected to reveal annual pre-tax losses of about £20bn and announce hundreds of jobs cuts, Sunday newspapers reported.
Cost cutting - part of wider changes - could mean 6,000 workers would lose their jobs, said the Sunday Telegraph.

About 500 could be axed at the group's Newbury headquarters, the paper said.

The firm has been under increasing pressure to improve its sales growth. In February, the firm warned its assets were overvalued by as much as £28bn.

The firm has already said it expected sales growth to fall in 2007.

"We believe Vodafone has room to announce 10% headcount cuts and 15% cost savings in IT and network operations through outsourcing," said banking firm Lehman Brothers, reported The Sunday Telegraph.

New strategy

It is expected Vodafone's new strategy will target landline users to switch to using mobile phones, as well as offering customers high-speed internet access over landlines.

The firm will extend a low-cost mobile service to European customers, including the UK, newspapers said.

The service, already available in Germany, allows customers to use their mobiles to benefit from rates similar to those on landlines if they are within 2km of their homes.

Dividing business

The firm is overhauling its operational structure in an attempt to exploit changes in market and customer trends.

Vodafone has said that simplifying its business would give it a clearer focus and an increased emphasis on managing costs.

Both the earnings and strategy are set to be announced on Tuesday.

Vodafone was not immediately available for comment

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  • mzqa395
    mzqa395 Posts: 376 Forumite
    Predict most people nowadays use: O2 Tmobile 3
  • LongDongDave
    LongDongDave Posts: 405 Forumite
    mzqa395 wrote:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5025128.stm

    Mobile phone firm Vodafone is expected to reveal annual pre-tax losses of about £20bn and announce hundreds of jobs cuts, Sunday newspapers reported.

    Blame the fools who bought Mannesmann.
  • withabix
    withabix Posts: 9,508 Forumite
    mzqa395 wrote:
    Predict most people nowadays use: O2 Tmobile 3

    Largest UK user bases are still Orange and Vodaphone IIRC.

    These two networks have the largest business user base and widest UK coverage - try using 3, O2 or T-mobile when you're off the beaten track in the north of Scotland for example!
    British Ex-pat in British Columbia!
  • Browntoa
    Browntoa Posts: 49,602 Forumite
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    they are also looking to offer "fixed line" packages via some sort of tie up with BT (they are partners in BT Fusion)

    I bet this is just a "clear the decks" write down of everything but the kitchen sink so the share price recovers long term
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