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Originally Posted by Sirius
We were all chatting in work about this at dinner yesterday and the consensus is its a good move.
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I hope you're right. I suppose it all depends how 'hands off/on' Liberty are.
I've no idea how much Cisco charge for the bits of kit that go in the 'exchanges' but I imagine their not quite an off the shelf item so how much discount is available for bulk prchases. CPE bits however I'm sure could be considerably cheaper if you've >20 million customers than 5 million.
Rival TV companies might be more willing to do business with a pan-european company than national comapny, but do English language channels do as well in Europe as foreign language channels do here? I know there are such things as subtitles and dubbing but I'd imagine the cost of multilingal subtitles is quite expensive.
So I think what I'm trying to say is that there could well be a positive impact on the technoligy and less on the TV channels, but an improved more robust future proofed network can't be a bad thing.
Cheers
Grim