The Decline of Vodafone and Challenges in Telecom Industry

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Exploring Vodafone's decline and struggles in the telecom industry against online services like WhatsApp, the chapter highlights missed opportunities, poor strategic decisions, and the need for 5G investments. Vodafone aims to simplify its structure, focusing on key markets but faces obstacles like competition regulators and job cuts. The chapter also touches on office environment changes and challenges in managing listed historical buildings in the UK.

America’s central bank left rates untouched, to widespread market delight. Why is this economic cycle confounding expectations so much, and how to bring it to a gentle end? We look at the modern fortunes of Vodafone, a once-mighty telecoms firm that is slimming down to get healthier (11:21). And why Britain’s system for protecting its historic buildings from change…needs to change (16:10).

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