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The polling industry is an utter failure. Almost all of them called it wrong 3 times in a row. There's now way to dress that up at all.

I look into it more... but please don't quote the guardian. They are the leftist of the leftist left :-)

But I agree, my knowledge on Italy and the EU is very small. I haven't researched it much.

Pokerchips, I put it to you that the polls are preposterous. They've gotten it wrong on the Tory Majority, Brexit and Trump... 3 in a row. I now give about as much weight to polls as I do me winning the Euromillions 5 times in a row.

DanielH, Please put your emotions away and discuss Vodafone shares and all the macroeconomic factors affecting it. Including how Brexit could affect the stock price. Would be interesting to know if you actually think Brexit could affect Vodafone shares or not?

Bye bye, don't let the door hit you on the way out... now do the right thing and call a general election before you go, so the five star movement can take power and get Italy out of the EU too. Get this failed experiment ended quicker so we can all get on with our lives, and trade Vodafone shares affected by all this political stuff.

The main reasons are "Brexit, India and the billing issue". But uncertainty fuels drops more than bad news. When the uncertainty goes, the share price will go up. But until that happens, I will trade it and limit risk by using technical analysis. I'm one of the small number of people who are consistently profitable. So if that makes me a know it all, great.

Macd turned positive on the hourly. Small speculative Tranche.

The hourly however is still showing a strong downtrend at 32.7 on the ADX and 27.7 on the -Di.

I won't touch it until it's under 30 on the "Daily" RSI, if that doesn't come I won't take the trade. -Di is 25 on the ADX and Di indicator. But ADX is only 12.6, so the downtrend is weak and unpredictable. MACD has recently turned positive on the hourly, but it hasn't been reliable for getting the bottoms with IAG recently. And all 3 bollingers are pointing down on the hourly anyway. So I reckon to take as much risk as possible out of a swing trade with IAG, patience is needed with the understanding that it might not reach under 30 on the RSI based on the ADX showing a weak downtrend on the daily. I'm watching various other stocks just now, I also went long on VOD earlier @ 190.6p

Yeah if our gutless politicians actually implement what the people voted for a the referendum, then I hope Openreach's monopoly gets slaughtered. So far we've had Theresa May holding back too long, and allowing that rich hedge fund manager to go to court to get the MP's voting on Brexit even though it was the MP's who agreed the country should have the vote on Brexit in the first place. And now that parasite Tony Blair is sticking his ore in, wants to come back to politics, said Brexit could be stopped. Theresa May has a lot to answer for, if Article 50 was just invoked immediately, the above wouldn't have time to cause problems. 2 years is enough negotiating time in my opinion if enough resources were allocated. Anyway, rant over lol

If they can sort something out with the pension issues as mentioned by smasher then it wouldn't be "their own" engineers, it would be the same engineers already working for open-reach in all but company name. It can't go on the way it is, it will have to change or the UK will be miles behind other countries for a lot longer.

Majority of telephone lines* with the exceptions of Virgin media and a few small players.

Ah sorry I started replying before I had finished reading your comment haha.... A massive number of people could be affected jobs wise, or they could simply port over to the new provider pretty much fully trained, so in effect just switch companies. Wouldn't be that much chaos in the exchanges as the majority of the workers would already have worked in the exchanges.

Smasher, I've been 2nd and 3rd line technical support for a very big telecoms provider, my area of expertise was broadband a few years back. Right now the BT Openreach network is 100% not open to other providers. If you're referring to other providers putting their Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer's in BT's telephone exchanges, this is as far as it's gotten. The majority of BT telephone lines are owned by BT, not any other provider. The network has been partially opened, but even then when you put an order in for fixed line broadband or home phone with a provider that provider places an order with BT Openreach, who then charge that provider for connecting the line to the DSLAM at the telephone exchange. No other engineers other than BT openreach are allowed in the telephone exchange. So the service level agreement, the time it takes to get the customer connected is at the mercy of how well BT Openreach is coping with the demand. And a whole multitude of problems that can occur on top of the normal connection process. My point is if BT Openreach is broken up and providers are allowed to carry out their own technical connections, and there's no longer a monopoly on the whole sale line rental from BT... then providers will be able to increase their margins, they will also be more inclined to invest in the network to create newer, more exciting and better products if their is a demand for them, and again make more money. Right now BT Openreach's only incentive to invest is the threat of being broken up. If they have a monopoly they can simply increase earnings by hiking the wholesale costs of their lines up. If their lines are open to competition then they would have to be more competitive which would be good for customers.

It's not that bad as broadband is reasonable for most people in the UK. Not South Korea or Japanese standards, but fit for purpose for most. It will effect the customer experience for some time yes I agree. But I don't see it affecting profits. If the wholesale price goes up, it goes up for all providers, so all will increase their prices.

All the big providers at the mercy of BT Openreach are not going to suddenly go quiet about this. They are going to highlight every faily BT Openreach has. If they fail to invest this will be highlighted, if they cause major problems due to that failure to invest this will also be highlighted. The big providers like Sky and TT are going to hound the government regulators constantly until they get sick enough of it to actually break BT Openreach up. It's like the EU, there's a good chance it's going to get broken up... it's just chipping away a bit at a time until it does.

If BT reduces it's investment that doesn't mean the amount Talk talk or any other provider charges suddenly drops. It just means the UK suffers from lack of development in comparison to other countries, until the government finally realise BT Openreach needs broken up.

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I hope BT restricts it's investment in the UK. That will only strengthen the case for the Exchanges to be opened up to allow competitors access to them. Then we'll have less waiting time for provision of new landlines and broadband connections, more investment from multiple companies and we'll finally start to see some proper investment. I used to work for a national broadband provider in 2nd and 3rd line support. The amount of times we hit a brick wall trying to deal with BT Openreach was unbelievable. Can't want for them to be broken up.