Britain is an important market, and One2One is one of the opportunities there.

Britain is an important market, and One2One is one of the opportunities there,

I realize that the best telecom portfolio Vodafone can buy is the Mannesmann portfolio, ... However, we at Mannesmann have another constituency -- to the Mannesmann shareholder. Our shareholders don't want (Vodafone's combination of) low-growth and minority participation in the United States.

They would be making a very, very severe mistake,

almost the most stupid thing we could do.

We do not talk to anybody, and we will not talk to anybody on a white knight thing,