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Old 17-06-2014, 12:36   #10
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Re: Huge network investment

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Originally Posted by Top banana View Post
Had been hearing rumours that Liberty were going to invest huge amounts on VMs network for a couple of weeks. VMs CEO has now confirmed the news.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/city-n...kridge-3704765
Really?

He says they are investing that amount, present tense. Last quarter they spent about 65mln on network upgrades, this was down on the same period in 2013.

Scalable infrastructure
41.2 44.5
Upgrade / rebuild
23.6 23.5

Looks to me like he's including all capital expenditure, including CPE and leased property, in his numbers.

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Originally Posted by Top banana View Post
No but now it's been mentioned I assume more detail will be outlined in the common weeks. From what I can gather they completely rebuilt the network in Southern Ireland as part of investment there
They had to. A lot of it was one-way only, amps dangling off the side of houses, it looked more like the Rediffusion cable build than a modern HFC network and had no fibre in most of it at all. The business case was to be able to sell digital TV, 2-way services and telephony. There is no business case to spend as much on VM's network.
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