Arun Sarin
Arun Sarin
Arun Sarinis an Indian-born American telecommunications executive...
delivered environment good performance
Vodafone has delivered a good operational performance in a challenging environment.
consider economic europe industry innovative level measures needs
Europe needs a stable, pro-competitive economic outlook, coupled with a willingness to be innovative at the micro level and consider measures which will give industry more flexibility.
compete continue customer demand few grow last level mobile order potential retail seen service stimulate together true work
As we have seen over the last few years, service interoperability has unlocked the true potential for mobile. While we, as mobile operators, need to compete at the retail level, we must also continue to work together at the service interoperability level in order to stimulate customer demand and to continue to grow our industry.
service wire
As was evident, mobiles are better than the wire service here.
continue enable step
This is an important step forward. It will enable us to continue to outperform our competitors.
acquire almost customers decline half margin quarters retain spending three year
Almost three quarters of our margin decline in the first half of this year is because we are spending to retain and acquire customers there.
board stay united view
We (Vodafone board members) are united in the view that we need to stay in Japan,
calls huge opportunity percent wireless
Only 25 percent of the world's calls are now on wireless networks. That's a huge opportunity for us.
leadership trained
Leadership is experiential... it's really a trained art.
margins
The place where our margins are really being impacted is in Japan,
surprises
Those were the big surprises for our shareholders,
company confident hard increasing obviously previous relaxed return sure
We are confident that we can return this company to its previous height..., ... We are relaxed about where we are, where we are going. Obviously we are working very hard to make sure that we are increasing the profitability.
company falling investment turning
Falling margins, which is really investment in customers, is very much a part of turning the company around,
company falling investing margins turning
Falling margins are very much part of turning the company around. You can't turn around without investing in customers.