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Old 03-03-2011, 15:16   #78
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Re: Virgin should buy TiVo...

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Originally Posted by mersey70 View Post
You cannot polish a turd, they had a net loss of 223,000 customers in 3 months as I read it.

The churn rate is much more than unhealthy, it is the stuff on bankruptcy when you only have just over 2 million customers to start with, they lost 131,000 in the same quarter a year before so the churn is getting far, far worse.

They have lost well over 20% of their total customer base in a year, it's staggering.

There must be a reason for it, I would imagine the same reasons will apply here.

Until it is the de facto platform here I sadly think it will struggle but genuinely hope I am totally wrong.

I also hope they win their cases if they are justified thugh, the last thing Sky's competitors needs is another dead duck.
I haven't looked at how Tivo are set up but the probability is that Tivo in UK and US are separate entities. I doubt Tivo would be naïve enough to have its foreign operations dependent on its US entity particularly when VM are giving them a partnership for a huge customer base.

My guess would be that the UK partnership with VM would be very lucrative as all Tivo are doing here is technology they already have.
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