Vodafone knew full well what was approaching and has been hell bent on hyping up its telco TV service this year – hoping to glaze over the inevitable event of its subscriber base falling off a cliff. Video losses for the quarter ended September tallied 72,000 across Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, hit hardest in Spain to the tune of 66,000 cancellations– making it a total drop of 98,000 in the country over the last two quarters. Without premium soccer rights, the European telco’s core TV business has been left vulnerable, a situation Orange and Telefónica in Spain have taken full advantage of. “Going forward, unless football rights are available on profitable terms, we intend to focus our…