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Originally Posted by telfordcable
If sky want to have virgin cable - they will get it anyway !
If virgin take sky to court, and it will be sky to win head down easy !
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If anyone seriously thinks the regulators however weak they are (very) will allow sky to take over virgin medias network.
Then i would suggest those people also believe in the tooth fairey.
Its just not going to happen the largest competitor to sky (as regards the tv,bb) being taken over by sky get real please.
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Originally Posted by Womble
Although I think its all hot air from Murdoch, it does raise an interesting point. If BT had to open up their network because it was built with public money, then why not Virgin Media?
Go back to the beginning and you'll find plenty of public money pumped in to NYNEX, United Artists, Bell Cable Media etc etc
Just a thought!!
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The only problem i can see with your point being, if public money did get invested originally, and i am not sure it did,as the cable laying in our area seemed to be financed from money abroad.
But even if public money were used, do virgin media not have to pay it back which is a very large part of the reason they are in so much debt? No money has been given freely out of the public purse for the network it all has to be paid back. So as such, unlike bt which was nationalised for many years before privatisation,public money has not as such been used for cables infrastructure.