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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
I believe that VM did want to go FTTC but hadn't the critical mass to make the sums work - especially given the headstart that their competition has.
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Incorrect, the "fibre project" as it was called was fully fined and well under way with many exchanges fibred to and kit installed.
The whole project was then cancelled out of the blue, and the kit that was installed started to be removed.
This all happened exactly at the same time the BT Sport deal was announced. Make of that what you will.............
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Originally Posted by Kushan
Interesting, so Virgin is now focussing on expanding their cable infrastructure rather than supplementing it with FTTC? I guess that makes sense in a way.
Then again, didn't LibGlob say something about focussing on getting existing customers to spend more rather than trying to expand to get more customers?
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That was also the original VM model, and has been successful so far.
A modest amount of homes (around 50,000) are added on-net each year nationally.
I don't know if Liberty intend to increase that number, it's very expensive so I would doubt it.
However, Liberty need to grow and maximise their European operations to the level that VM are operating at.