Liberty Global, now firmly rooted in the UK, may be regretting the sale of its operations in four other European countries to Vodafone – or at least its shareholders will be, as the two firms’quarterly results move in opposite directions. Liberty Global’s total revenue from continuing operations – left over after the sale of the businesses in Germany, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic – were $2.84bn for its third quarter, a year-on-year fall of 3%. Vodafone, by contrast, enjoyed an instant uptick from acquisition of those Liberty Global assets, reporting revenues up 0.4% year-on-year to €21.9bn ($24.1bn) for the first half of the fiscal year. This was not all just about asset transfer. Compounding the contrast in fortunes, some…