LONDON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Mobile phone company Vodafone met expectations with a 1.4 percent rise in revenue inits third quarter, its sixth consecutive quarter of growth, asrecovery in Europe gained pace.
The world's second largest operator reported organic servicerevenue of 9.2 billion pounds, in line with analyst forecasts,on Thursday and said it was on track to deliver full-year coreearnings of between 11.7 billion and 12.0 billion pounds.
Earlier this week Vodafone said it had restarted talks withLiberty Global, the cable company it was considering joiningforces with last year to offer more packages of TV, broadbandand mobile in European markets.
This time, however, it said the talks were limited to theNetherlands. (Reporting by Paul Sandle; editing by Kate Holton)
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