Daniel McConnell

You're our business guru here much more so than I. The newsroom will not accept that title, but thank you.

But we kind of again mentioned it in the introduction about Vodafone being that sort of market leader.

Are they at risk, do you think, your assessment, are they at risk of being toppled from that market leader position given that the industry is competitive or do you think they just need to kind of...

will always sort of nudge ahead.

And I thought, again, for me, one of the interesting parts of the interview was, you know, she's talking about the innovations, you know, the kind of the next, you know, the 5G, the fibre, the satellite.

I mean, when they said that they did the satellite call into Ireland, I mean, you're just intrigued by, like I'm intrigued just by the logistics and the mechanics of that.

But like, and then she's obviously talking about eradicating the blast, because Ireland has obviously given its terrain, there's probably black spots still in this country, despite they're here 25 years, there are still black spots.

So the idea of having a satellite means you could actually get a call from anywhere.

But it is mind-boggling when you think of the scale of Vodafone, not only here in Ireland, but the global.

And she even got into her relationship with Vodafone corporates on high.

The level of money that's required to invest by way of keeping ahead of the competition, of making sure, but also brought in the idea of how important are the retail shops and how important will they be going forward.

I presume they're very important for the consumer business and still having that.

you know going in having that face to face customer experience and getting your kid or getting yourself signed up will it all be done remotely in the future all online in the future who knows but I would have thought it's invaluable to have the Vodafone brand on a high street not only in Dublin on Grafton Street but to have it in you know Wexford Town Carlo etc elsewhere well I mean like

Very good.

Well, that's it for this week.

My thanks to Sabrina Casalta for Vodafone for being our guest.

My thanks to Peter.

We will be back next week with another fabulous guest, Paul Johnson, former British ambassador to Ireland and now head of the Irish University Association.

Until then, we wish you Godspeed and good luck and take care.

Good morning, Clare.