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Originally Posted by mattboothers
Sorry to intrude but Why wont they.. Virgin Media was aloud to buy ntl:Telewest. Why cant Sky buy Virgin Media?
EDIT: Actually to stop this thread from going off-topic again I have created a new thread for this issue!
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...l#post35118239 |
As legislation stands at the moment any bid by Sky for Virgin media would be thrown out by the monopolies and merger commission.
News Corps bid for the 60% of Sky they don't own, has already got the EU and the UK government investigating as they own The Times,Sunday Times and the Sun newspapers.