Vittorio Colao
Management
Thank you, operator. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to our Trading Update for the First Quarter 2017-2018. I am here in Italy, Nick Read is in London. Hopefully, everything will work smoothly. I will take you through the highlights, as always; and then, Nick will focus on the trading update, after which I will come back to summarize our strategic progress and then we will move to the usual Q&A. So, let’s start on slide three, with the highlights for the quarter, starting on the left. We have made what I would call a good start to the year with 2.2% organic service revenue growth in Q1. Growth improved in Europe to 0.8%, which is really 1.8% excluding regulation and accelerated in AMAP to 7.9%, which as now excludes India. In India, revenues continue to decline year-on-year, but stabilized compared to the prior quarter. The foundation of our business is our network quality and scale in both 4G and fibre. In mobile, we continue to have the best data network in 14 out of 21 markets and the best voice in all of the 21 markets. We’re pleased to have now reached 98 European homes with fibre including VodafoneZiggo here, of which 36 million are on net; this is the broadest footprint of broadband in Europe. This network leadership supports the healthy performance of our growth engines as shown in the central part of the page. First, mobile data started growing 63% supported by ongoing 4G adoption. We are monetizing this growth through the successful implementation for a second year of more-for-more offers in market-to-market and I’ll cover some later. Second fixed, here we added 300,000 new broadband users, maintaining our position as Europe’s fastest growing operator with the solid convergence -- take-up of converged offers. And third enterprise with 1.5 percentage growth led by market share gains in fixed and the strong growth of IoT services. And finally, the last column is perhaps the most important as it illustrates what our customers think about us. Based on net promoter scores, we are the leader or co-leader in 19 markets with a substantial gap versus weaker third place players and I will cover this as well. So, overall, we continue the good work, and this has been a good quarter. I’ll hand over to Nick for the trading update.