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the company s performance has not been good enough . 0ur international business correspondent, theo leggett, joins us. theo, what has vodafone been getting wrong? the business simply hasn t been performing well enough and hasn t been for several years. vodafone is a very big company. it has operations across europe, it also has a significant operation in africa as well. but it is in the older markets, the european markets, where it has seen its profits stagnate or decline. it has been losing broadband subscribers in germany, its biggest market. it hasn t been living up to its own or investors expectations and that s why the chief executive has decided that change is urgently needed. she wants to strip away some of the fat in the company make it a bit leaner. in terms of where those job cuts are going to fall, that is quite key. it is going to be in europe and the uk and in the uk because the head office is here. there will be significantjob cuts. the company