Thread: FT: Virgin sells national broadband customers
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Old 13-11-2014, 10:43   #23
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Re: FT: Virgin sells national broadband customers
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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
C&W had a very nice Enterprise Business that Vodaphone wanted, just that it came with a Hugh outdated worldwide fibre network.
Indeed, but it also gave them the dubious honour of being the only UK mobile operator to own their own fibre and backhaul.

Though in the end they, and everyone else, still rely BT/Openreach a hell of a lot, especially up in Scotland where VM have a very limited footprint.

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet View Post
C&W's 'crappy' network is the most extensive fibre network, BT excepted, in the country. Vodafone wanted the ducts and fibre to backhaul their mobile masts. Nothing at all to do with consumer fixed-line services but being able to deliver more content via mobile at a lower price thanks to owning rather than having to rent capacity.
^^ This.
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