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Originally Posted by foreverwar
The Chapter 11 was over four years ago, and was before NTL and Telewest merged, and then the take-over of Virgin Mobile and the re-branding.
That's like blaming BT for any problems O2 have now (even though they are owned by Telefonica) because in 2002 BT owned BT Cellnet.
btw, I agree with you re BT - I think there is enough competition now (but the Operators wanting LLU probably wouldn't agree).
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Ummm I'm saying nothing about the effect it had on their service merely that the end result is that the debt for equity swap meant that the current company didn't pay for its' network. Try reading more closely before coming out with the

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Originally Posted by Me
What with VM going into chapter 11 and swapping the company in return for the money used to build the networks they need all the help they can get, clearly.
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Both had original networks paid for by someone else
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