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It would appear Sky will use O2's network for its mobile service arriving in 2016 not Vodafone as originally rumoured.

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Interesting, thank you. I think O2 and Sky are quite close, with O2 having sold its broadband base to Sky. And O2 does not compete with Sky's TV offering. I guess similar services may be rolled out in other Sky countries if this is successful here. Does Vodafone have any MVNO agreements left? BT and Asda now use EE, and TalkTalk now uses O2.

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It seems the rumour mill around Vodafone is still rife , I've seen a purchase of Liberty Global mentioned again and DS have an article with an analyst speculating they could make a move for Sky.

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SKy have just inked a massive deal with O2, that wouldn't go down to well with big Red. Would have thought that the Sky MVNO would factor into a Vodafone purchase.

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The FT are reporting Vodafone will move into the multiplay market , saying it has plans to connect its existing fibre BB network to around 1,000 of BT's larger exchanges.

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Cheaper than buying Liberty Global! More info may be known on Thursday when Vodafone unveils it quarterly results.

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And what exactly do they intend to do with the fibre they're connecting?

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Being that your knowledge of all things fibre is far greater than mine I was hoping you'd have a read and try explain it to me.:D

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Add to their mobile offer with home broadband/telephony in the Spring (triple play) to be followed by quadruple play with a TV offering utilising cloud storage by the end of the year. More info to come Thursday, apparently. Whether it will have a significant pay TV element is unknown. Presumably Vodafone can't offer Tivo as its Spanish subsidiary does as VM has UK exclusitivity.

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Some more news on Vodafone's broadband plans.

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The FT has said that BT's acquisition of EE could be announced tomorrow with no issues discovered during due diligence process. The purchase will be financed by issuing £6.3bn in new shares to Deutsche Telekom and Orange and £6.2bn in cash. The latter will be raised via new debt and equity.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9a74a0ec-a...#axzz3QQrHhdOU

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Woah.

That's a hell of a claim. If Openreach are generating that much cash and funding BT's sports rights Ofcom would be very interested in discussing that matter.

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Hmm.

https://www.samknows.com/broadband/llu/bulldog

They already have connectivity to 936 exchanges, so this wouldn't be a massive step.

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Ah but what if those are all only small exchanges ;)

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Then Cable and Wireless were idiots :)

Average premises per exchange 17,484

That's an outdated figure, it'll be higher now.

Unless they do something interesting they'll be yet another company reselling the same BT products. If they started building a fibre access network as they are doing in Eire and elsewhere then I might be interested. I don't really watch TV, am fine having my mobile bill separate from broadband, and don't especially need a land line.