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Good point.

We can only guess, but I reckon the high interest loan is to keep things simple for a future investor to come in. If the shares has been diluted it would have meant less of the pie per £. 15% gives its own return while leaving the company ready for investment. How do you see it?

I'm expecting the shares to hit 20p if funding is secured. Assuming no dilution, which there might be. But even so, it's the pivotal moment. Everything else seems positive. Added 32k shares today. I'll maybe add more this year

As the follower of a team who keep changing their manager, and noting their constant decline, I disagree. This was never an overnight fix. She disposed of units that cost her predecessor his job and credibility. She's got a good program to streamline the business. She's got the 3 merger which is out of her hands and she's got the impact of losing the German housing associations to recover from. She's cut the dividend andis delivering a share buyback. These would still be the same issues whoever the chief executive is. There are signs of recovery from a long decline, but it's going to take time.

Do everyone a favour and squabble in private.

The CMA want guarantees around the 11bn, wholesale access for smaller retailers and mechanisms to prevent monopoly pricing. All sees reasonable. I suspect the proposals are light on binding commitments.

Who's Irene?

I've been burned before by IPOs on the AIM. It's always the same thing- will they get the finance to go into production. I do think Cornish Metal will be OK. Financial support is hard to get, and by this Christmas they will still need 2 years worth of money. But they have several advantages. They have already gone a distance in reopening the mine, they have solid industry input and they are strategically Important for any UK government. I do hope Labour see it.

If funding is secured then the share price will rise quickly. If not, sharks will move in and our money is in jeapordy. On balance, I couldn't add any more shares than I've got, but I'm holding in the belief that the odds are slightly in favour of success

Mind if I add mine? 77.4p

Just to add, once again the BT price is influencing the Vodafone price. They rarely move in different directions. I'm fact they move almost in synch. BT is spiking, Vodafone is rising.

How do you know where the support level is? Is that based on the last time it fell? If so, if support levels off the price at say 76p, we could maybe agree that the share price range has moved up?

Someone bought 20m shares overnight, now there are several large trades - undisclosed whether they are buy or sell. I suspect these are shorts

Hi Mole man. I don't agree with your comments which seem isolated and anecdotal. No welcome will ever deliver perfect reception. I doubt Starlink can build up satellites to the extent that they deliver mass connectivity. They are always going to be niche players. Their strength is connectivity in remote places, like Inmarsat. The buyback make good sense and we can see the effect on the share price. Vodafone are underpriced. Until the last few days there has been no recognition of the good work done in disposals, in Africa, in Eatern Europe and elsewhere. They are in growth and have a deliverable strategy on cost reduction. AI is going to play a huge part in their future. You are right that the UK network isn't great right now. But that's the whole business case for merger with 3 Mobile, with £11b promised for modernisation if the merger is approved. I also think there is too little focus on Africa where Vodafone really have a strong proposition and great numbers. This share price could have doubled by the turn of the year.

Sure is a mystery. I think Vodafone will rise and rise. An H2 statement showing further growth plus approval for the merger could trigger a big rise. Germany remains an issue but the whole company looks well pruned and ready to grow

Does anyone have a view on the comparative prospects of BT and Voda? They are tied together in so many funds, they are almost like stepsisters.

Interesting that Vodafone rose on a bad day for tech stocks in America. Vodafone could be seen as a safe haven for a lot of investors

No news is generally bad news, especially when they aren't yet trading. The only thing that matters this year is finance. If they get it the price will soar. If not it'll become a junk stock

No news is generally bad news, especially when they aren't yet trading. The only thing that matters this year is finance. If they get it the price will soar. If not it'll become a junk stock

I go between BT and Vodafone, trying to surf the peaks and troughs to increase my shareholding. Just now, to me, will prove to be the perfect historical opportunity. Both stocks are undervalued. To me, Vodafone is ahead of BT in terms of performance, and I like what the board are doing. Yet it's BT who attract all the investment. I'm there just now, simply because the stock rises and falls by a margin of 5% every few weeks and it's easy to make profits accordingly when the average trend is upwards. What I don't understand is why Vodafone stays in the doldrums. All these share buybacks have hardly moved the price at all. I'm moving back to Vodafone before the H1 results, because I expect them to show increased growth. By contrast I expect BTs H1 to be flat at best. Then the 3 announcement a month later. Surely ... surely that highlights an undervalued stock to the world and it rises 50% in a quarter. It's hard to fathom

I think your last paragraph is very wide of the mark. The products you expect to BT to sell can also be sold by altnets, especially over 5g and 6g. If this Sky deal can hit the SP almost 10%, imagine the drop if the regulator approves the merger of Vodafone and 3. They are promising a budget of £11 billion to make mobile as good as fibre. There is so little margin for error with BT. They have one national market, competition all pecking away at them, and their main defence is cost saving.