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TheDon · 05-11-2010, 17:12

Not a cat in hells chance.

On another note though, why would Sky want to buy VM? It makes no sense for them to do so.

Sure the cable platform might be superior to satellite, but is that benefit worth it when you look at the difficulties of running two very different platforms side by side, with customers getting a different service based on which they were connected to?

Sky only need a decent return path, they aren't going to spend billions buying VM just to get a return path, it makes FAR more sense for them to just use BT infinity. They only need to be able to provide around 10mbps of bandwidth to do anything that VM can do, and whilst that would be on a connection shared by the domestic broadband it's not too hard to QoS it so the STB always got what it needed.

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TheDon Inactive Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,567	Re: Can Sky Buy Virgin Media? Not a cat in hells chance. On another note though, why would Sky want to buy VM? It makes no sense for them to do so. Sure the cable platform might be superior to satellite, but is that benefit worth it when you look at the difficulties of running two very different platforms side by side, with customers getting a different service based on which they were connected to? Sky only need a decent return path, they aren't going to spend billions buying VM just to get a return path, it makes FAR more sense for them to just use BT infinity. They only need to be able to provide around 10mbps of bandwidth to do anything that VM can do, and whilst that would be on a connection shared by the domestic broadband it's not too hard to QoS it so the STB always got what it needed.