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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
If VM was to be sold, it would not be a bad idea, even if it did have ' Murdoch' if Sky bought it, look at what it would achieve, You would get all the Sky channels back, all the people that live in places that cannot have a dish would benefit, and it would be cheaper, What would make it even funnier, is if Sky had RB as its main director  |
*if* Sky bought the VM cable service (which, afaik, is *not* for sale or even being valued), they would have an effective monopoly on Pay TV. Now, assuming that the Competition commission don't intervene (which they would probably be required to), Sky wouldn't lower prices. Why would they? They'd have no competition.
On the contrary, I think you would find their prices going up massively.
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Originally Posted by m419
Cable and Wireless: Would allow the company to retrieve back a residential and small business customer base and would be able to offer Cable internet to its existing business customers. Cable and Wireless would definately continue to use existing Virgin and NTL:Telewest business brands and thats what Virgin Enterprises want! Although France Telecom are after Cable and Wireless, so if Cable and Wireless did acquire Virgin Media and France Telecom acquires Cable and Wireless, then we would probably see everything be rebranded to Orange! How does Orange Media sound???
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Orange media sounds absolutely awful. Everyone I know who has had Orange Broadband or an Orange Mobile has had problems..
As for C&W showing an interest? Based upon the past, I wouldn't expect any interest they show lasting long.. They already bought a lot of cable companies in 1999, which they had disposed off by 2003-2004. Then, they bought Bulldog, kept the network and sold off everything apart from the network. Bulldog is still trading, but it is as a unit of Pipex, which is part of Tiscali.