As part of the Tech Club Speaker Series at London Business School, Chris Lane, Director of Corporate Strategy for the Vodafone Group gave a fascinating presentation on Wednesday May 5th, Chris covered Vodafone’s roles in the history of mobile service as well as its part in adopting new standards and a bit on its plans for the future. Mr. Lane also provided an insightful view on how the move from voice to data over the mobile network is not necessarily a bad thing for mobile operators, explaining that operators want to sell us “buckets” of minutes+text+data, and as long as we keep paying the right price for the “bucket” it doesn’t really matter what we do (minimal impact on profitability for the operator).
Mr. Lane also answered questions from the audience as to past decisions made by Vodafone such as entering the mobile market in Ghana and his view of various strategic aspects of the company. Chris Lane’s presentation was followed by Vodafone HR person Paul Powell who briefed the audience on Vodafone’s culture, internships and full time opportunities, scholarships to prospective MBAs and answered related questions.