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Lavo, what about yourself? Have you got a shout-out you'd like to make?

So what I would want to mention is that Autoslovakia is a part of the Etisalat BPF group, and it is actually very nice to operate in a group which is kind of smaller but but super focused on innovation with all our other countries where we have yetels and settings as a providers of the network and i wanted to shout out to actually a wonderful team which we have in slovakia because i spoke a lot about the success of o2 And none of it would be possible actually without an amazing set of colleagues where we are really focused on innovation, focused on making things possible, even with very limited resources.

So working around the constraints, finding new ways.

And we have this really motto, which I truly embrace, is that our job is here to simplify the customer's lives with innovative solutions, which we really believe in.

He got caught when it was leaked in 17-18.

So that shows that when they need money, they go and tell Etisalat to send money.

In that, Etisalat will be told that you only gave 5% of it, the rest is being given by the family.

Everybody knew this is happening.

Everybody knew this is happening also with Romana Brahmavich.

Number one, it's both customer and business facing.

It's sort of a cheap and easy proxy, if you like, for consumer behavior because Do is UAE focused, whereas its main competitor, Etisalat, yes, now Etisalat again, also has divisions in other countries.

It's a little bit easier sometimes to drill down and see what's happening in the UAE as opposed to what's happening in the region, although Etisalat, Etisalat has over the last wee while been breaking out its UAE numbers and for that we appreciate it.

So if we go straight to sort of the biggest proxy, if you like, Q3, the mobile customer base growing just over 3% year over year.

Fixed customer base, so that is people who want wireless at home, whether that's your internet, watch your telly and all the rest of it, saw a slightly higher growth of just over 5%.

Piers is away again, so you've just got me.

So I wanted to talk to you today about Etisalat.

Many of you will know Etisalat.

It is an Emirati telecommunications company.

It's the 16th largest in the world.

And I've got huge, huge, huge respect for them.

But here's what has happened.

Etisalat in February 2022 became E&.

... meant that they could never Match the financial requirements under Financial Fair Play from UEFA.

What perhaps gave the game away, so to say, is the commercial deals with companies from the United Arab Emirates, and obviously the two most prominent ones are Etisalat, a telecoms company, and Etihad, which also has the naming rights of Manchester City's stadium.

Um, so those deals were, as we later found out, grossly inflated.

And you see the same modus operandi, uh, at PSG in Paris, where, for example, you had a deal between the club and the Qatar Tourism Authority that was worth around $120 million, um, on, uh, per year.

Today, we're diving into a fascinating development in the telecom sector.

Etisalat UAE and DataRobot have expanded their partnership to scale an agentic AI workforce across Etisalat's operations, marking a leap forward from their previous focus on predictive machine learning.

That's right.

The integration of the DataRobot Agent Workforce Platform into Etisalat's on-premises AI ecosystem is a key part of this expansion.

It allows for the development and deployment of predictive, generative, and agentic capabilities under a unified enterprise framework.

This means that sensitive data and workloads remain within Etisalat's self-managed infrastructure, ensuring control and AI sovereignty.

The move is not just about generating insights anymore.

It's about enabling AI agents to take action in business processes at scale.

Kieran, kind of picking up on what Rob said about the funding circle.

Manchester City, according to our information, are basically gonna argue that this was genuine commercial revenue because it was topped up by the Abu Dhabi government, and the Abu Dhabi government are the owners, the controllers of these sponsors like Etisalat, Etihad Airways, Abu Dhabi Tourism.

And of course, the redacted panel report says very clearly that that was concocted after the event, and they still believe that it was essentially the owner's money or his vehicle, Abu Dhabi United Group.

Now, there's other cases out there, particularly 2015, when Etihad were embroiled in an aviation case, and they argued that they paid all of the sponsorship money themselves.