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Originally Posted by Pierre
Correct, came as a surprise to everyone involved. But like I say announced the same time as the BT Sport deal, so either they needed the cash to fund the BT deal, or as part of the negotiations they agreed not to compete with BT off-net, either or both.
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I won't argue with Pierre because he's much closer to events than most of us.
I fuind the cash reason more plausible than the non-compete negotiation. BT Sport AFAIK is not part of BT Openreach nor part of BT Wholesale. Because of the enforced arm's length relationship between those entities and BT Retail, I would question that BT would throw that into a negotiation.