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Exactly as Sky are reducing a lot of their outlets as well.
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I’ve never understood why they were there anyway
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Virgin Media will freeze its prices this year after scrapping the annual 5% hike
No doubt they'll make it for it with either 2 rises next year or a bumper 10% rise in Autumn 2021. |
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Just what I was thinking when I read the news
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If I was VM, I'd use this as an opportunity to align with Sky's annual rise in April, so that Sport and Cinema customers don't have quite so many rounds of price rises each year. |
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I'm reading the o2 and three mobile merger is back on potentially after the EU court backed down.
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...uk-merger.html What does this mean for o2-virgin media merger?? or will o2 merge with 3 and then merge with virgin media?! surely the courts wont allow that as it shrinks the market even more |
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The reason for it being stopped has been overturned that’s all. O2 have moved on and the joint venture with VM is well on track. Just goes to show though how damaging EU bureaucracy can be to business. 4 years down the line that decision has taken. |
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However as you say the JV between VM and O2 is going ahead, there is very litte concern in respect of competition as O2 doesn't have a fixed line network and VM doesn't have its own mobile network. This will likely go through with little issue, plus I doubt the EU Commission will given an opinion anyway considering we are leaving in the next 4 and a bit months. O2 + Three would have reduced competition, however the JV does not. |
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The old codger is at it again...
AT&T are going to spin off their WarnerMedia assets and merge them with Malone's Discovery. And of course for those conspiracy theorists out there, don't be surprised if this becomes another one of Malone's great tax "planning" wheezes, with as much AT&T debt (acquired when AT&T bought Time Warner) loaded onto the new entity as possible. And if anyone remembers my comments regarding ITV, look out for future action there too. Discovery owns a chunk of ITV and with rising ad sales, ITV could be an attractive buy for the new Warner/Discovery company. Check out my first post of this thread (and my original thread on this linked from the first post of this thread), and throw in Lionsgate and Starz into the cooking pot for good measure too. Also, I would expect Comcast to do a similar thing in the end and spin off its media assets and merge them with someone like Viacom. Remember what's currently going on with VM and O2... read between the lines there. Now, can the old codger do any better than this deal, of course he can! Don't forget Amazon, Apple et all are still waiting in the wings. $150bn companies might sound big to us, but when you're a trillion dollar company, $150bn is not such a big deal, save for a bit of indigestion. Get the rennies out, as the biggies are still to come in the next few years. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/16/att-...discovery.html |
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