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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
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Short term, no. Virgin Mobile pay their fees to EE and get their services as per whatever terms of the contract the two companies have. But of course if Vodafone do buy Liberty, it will be buy buy Virgin Mobile. Perhaps someone like Talktalk might take over Virgin Mobile if it were up for sale.
As I said on the "Vodafone Media" thread, we'll end up with three or four media/telecoms companies each having a mobile and fixed line phone services, tv and broadband as well as other media assets.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Vodafone can't buy "Virgin" they would have to buy Liberty Global, which they have already said doesn't fit in with their plans because there are a lot of Liberty companies in countries where vodafone have no interests.
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I wouldn't read too much into that. They can say one thing one moment and change their tune the next.
Vodafone has said they want to launch tv services next year. The Germans are waving the regulatory stick over ownership of cablecos in Germany. So, Vodafone may look to buy Liberty and widen their remit from mainly being a mobile operator to a quad play media/telecoms company.
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Originally Posted by Russ
I'm quite surprised none of our 'connected' members knew this was coming (unless of course they did but were "sworn to secrecy"), not sure I trust BT to run a mobile network seeing as they bought out of one over 10 years ago. Still they will be able to offer a fixed line too so let's see how it goes.
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I've been saying for a while that I think BT will buy ITV, so if it happens, you know where you read it first.
But its no secret that BT wanted back into mobile, the only reason it got rid of O2 to begin with was debt. Talking of which.... BT going to war with Sky over football rights won't be good for their long term cash reserves. There you go, another thing you seen first here! And of course all the "experts" are saying buy BT shares....which is the biggest red flag there is.