Originally Posted by m419 (Post 35374685)

They've always been in trouble, sometimes acquiring something else and moving into a new sector and disposing of what they are doing wrong can sometimes help.

Originally Posted by m419 (Post 35374685)

They've always been in trouble, sometimes acquiring something else and moving into a new sector and disposing of what they are doing wrong can sometimes help.

Originally Posted by m419 (Post 35374660)

Yes a large cable company like Comcast, there are many cable firms in the USA and Canada.

Possibly Cable and Wireless Worldwide as they have been recently on a spree of buying out large telecoms firms like Thus and Energis. They are always trying to find new ways to compete with larger rivals and to offer businesses complete business telecoms products. They don't seem keen on the residential side of things though after the disaster with Bulldog Broadband.

No carphone warehouse possibly because they own it in France. 3 would not be interested because for a start, many Virgin Mobile customers may be just 2G users and Richard branson will want the new owners to keep the Virgin name and possibly own a share in it just like most Virgin companies. 3 would want to use there own brand.

Vodafone would not be interested either because again they wouldn't want to associate with Virgin not after what happened in Qutar. I don't think they would be allowed to either by the competition commision, possibly Everything Everywhere could take over since they do already have some say in the company.

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35374688)

From Virgin Media to to C&W Cable!

Originally Posted by m419 (Post 35374700)

The Virgin name will remain in replace and act like seperate entity, the idea is that Cable and Wireless Worldwide has a widespread infrastructure and an international one at that, so if it was one company, there would be no piggy backing on BT for certain things. And wouldn't Cable and Wireless like to offer its business customers 100mb broadband ect...

I'm sure C&W still provide emergency services,101 and operator assistance for Virgin Media and T-Mobile users.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35374699)

C&W already did it, 15 years ago Then sold it five years later to NTL.

Originally Posted by m419 (Post 35374705)

It is a different age now, then there was less interest in pay tv and high speed internet. I heard the only reason C&W sold it to NTL was because Telewest wouldn't sell up to C&W.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/394952.stm

Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35374659)

New boxes, not new customers. So if you, as an existing customer, add another TiVo box after the end of Feb, that new box will have a £5 TiVo fee whilst your existing box(es) will keep the £3 fee

Originally Posted by mentalis (Post 35374747)

Looks like a lot of people are not happy about the price rises: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/new...rice-hike.html

Originally Posted by Joedm45 (Post 35374728)

Hi Ben. I assume a 2nd box after Feb will be £5 TiVo + multiroom costs? Is it still £6.50 or has it gone up :confused:

If so then it brings it more or less in line with Sky Multiroom. Bang goes another USP for VM :(

Originally Posted by kop32 (Post 35374751)

As the price hike for the TiVo service will go up by 66% can anyone tell us what is to be included/added to warrant such a significant rise?,I'm sure a few Apps here and there will not be of much comfort to TiVo subscribers added to the price rise of their TV,Broadband and in most cases phone service charges.