Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
 

Oh I dunno..I've had a few episodes over the years of Docsis 3 being in congestion at peak times, but they've generally been solved in a few months. Frustrating at the time of course, but I'd still take that solution over a shared connection in the long term.

The current problems with error-319 on Sky & HD shows especially, could do with being sorted.. but that's quite obviously an asset-specific issue.

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About time. But quite why they haven't gone down the route or city and regional advertising years ago I don't know.

In the US if you're watching (for example) Nationals Geographic channel in New York, you get New York ads placed in instead of some of the national ads. They've done this for donkeys years over there. Nice revenue generator.

Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
 

There are regional stations around the UK and they do often show different ads. Back in Belfast, we had UTV instead of ITV. Programming was nearly identical but the ads and local news was different.

Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
 

That's not what I was describing at all though.

Imagine you're watching a national channel, such as ITV2, Discovery Channel or Sky News but 50% of the ads are local to where you are. The cable companies insert local adverts in the US, it's not done by the broadcaster.

Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
 

Virgin Media Reports Preliminary Fiscal 2016 Results.

http://www.libertyglobal.com/pdf/pre...2016-FINAL.pdf

Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
 

Interesting that whilst VM increased its internet base by 214,100 customers, its TV base fell by 36,400.

Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
 

Sky have a more compelling TV offering at the moment, and have been aggressively pricing it - market economics.

Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
 

Virgins great strength is its broadband and will continue to be IMO long into the future Andrew.

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They are doing very well in terms of broadband. It's likely their fantastic offer on 50mb towards the end of 2016 helped towards their additions:

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...-prosecco.html

"Similarly they’re no doubt mindful of the success that their on-going £18 per month special offer has been having for the standalone 50Mbps broadband package (£32.25 after the 12 month discount), which has been challenging the similarly priced ‘up to’ 17Mbps (ADSL2+) packages of rival ISPs."

On the TV front it's the same old story. Stagnant.

2010 - 3,729,600 TV customers

http://dtg.org.uk/news/news.html?id=3745

2016 - 3,729,100 TV customers

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...and-users.html

If they keep running their cables out offering prosecco broadband and attractive bundle prices I can certainly see their TV uptake rocketing. I'm very interested in their cheap fast broadband.

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Vodafone chief says Liberty deal is still ‘attractive’

https://www.ft.com/content/3699ceec-...8-3700c5664d30

Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
 

For Vodafone maybe, but not LG.

Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
 

Agreed. I suspect Vodafone is trying to talk up its share price!

Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
 

God, I wish they'd just **** already.

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I Know lol

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From a VF perspective the deal makes sense. From a consumer perspective it will have ramifications in some markets like Germany. Here in the U.K. It might even force the regulators hand where they push VM to open the cable network to other competitors a la Openreach.