as you go to europe, vodafone reaches 12 million people in 12 countries.know what their customers want they're going to be marketing with us. and so you're right. we are following the disney lead bob iger is brilliant in building a global platform and they were on every distributor in the u.s we're on every distributor we're very clear about what they are with their brands. and we're very clear what we are. we're very different than everyone else. but people love our content. and that we do think that having a big direct marketing company helping us and we have already seen it in europe where there is a leader in sports when you get somebody else to drive you, the churn goes down and take goes up so for us it's all about scaling globally and with both verizon and sky in the uk and now vodafone, we think we have a real chance over the next year to get big scale we see what disney's done. and we see -- there is no reason we shouldn't be very big >> we certainly know sky here as part of the comcast nbc universal family, david. it's jon fortt, good morning >>

we are grateful to eu, three, virgin mobile, 02 and vodafone, among others, for supporting this offeress the internet. another area where we have learned lessons is on exams. last year, all four nations of the united kingdom found their arrangements for awarding grades did not deliver what they needed. with the impact felt painfully by students and their pa rents. painfully by students and their parents. although exams are the fa i rest parents. although exams are the fairest way we have of assessing what a student knows, the impact of this pandemic now means that it is not possible to have those exams this year. i can confirm that gcses, a—levels and as—level exams will not go ahead this summer. this year, we are going to put our trust in teachers, not algorithms. the department and quual had already worked up a range of contingency options. while the details will need to be fine tuned in consultation with quual, the exam boards and teaching presented organisations, i can confirm now that i wish to use a form of teacher assessed grades with training and support provided to ensure the

vodafone have a sim card offer but all of those solutions are too complicated.ro rating which means there is a zero rating which means there is no charge for using education websites and we are calling for all of the companies to work with the government to put this solution into place and do it quickly. we had about 285,000 pupils with this yesterday, just ten times more than we had at the start of term in september. today already we are seeing a three times... so the numbers are huge and it's costing poorfamilies a numbers are huge and it's costing poor families a lot of money and we need zero rating as swiftly as possible. what sort of cost are we talking about? if you have a student who is online for two or three hours, what could that potentially cost their parents? the easiest comparison is you think back to roaming charges and you see with video that this racks up very quickly. for the two—week isolation period the numbers are well into the hundreds of pounds if you are reliant on pay—as—you—go data. if you are using a bundle you are going to use that bun

education resources, and in grateful to ee, three, tesco mobile, skype mobile, virgin mobile and vodafoneer as normal. the education secretary will be making a statement shortly. mr speaker, i know many people will ask whether the decision on schools could have been reached sooner, and the answer is that we were doing everything in our power to keep them open because children's education is too vital and they are future too precious to be disrupted until every other avenue, every other option has been closed off, every other course of action has been taken, and that is why schools were the very last thing to close as i have long promised that they would be, and when we begin to move out of lockdown i promise that they will be the very first things to reopen. that moment may come after the february half term, other we should be extremely cautious about the timetable ahead. as was the case last spring, our emergence from the lockdown cocoon will not be a big bang but a gradual unwrapping. that is by the legislation we will vote on later today runs until the 31st of march, not because we exp