Vodafone came out with its half year results to end of September, with revenues off 3.9%, but blaming most of it on currency fluctuations, and taking the opportunity to impose a huge $6.4 billion impairment, which will make it show a loss and give it strong future tax reserves. But under all the financial shenanigans it claims that for the first time in a long time organic service revenues were up in local currencies – just 0.6% in Europe and more like 7.4% outside Europe. But the truth is that gains in video and broadband drove most of these gains, not purely cellular, something highlighted by the UK where its video strategy has yet to get off the ground, which…