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Old 15-12-2014, 23:33   #14
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Re: BT to buy EE - impact on VMobile?

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Originally Posted by Horizon View Post
You may have misunderstood the point he was making.

Virgin Media provide backhaul capacity (fibre lines) for EE. It's nothing to do with Virgin Mobile. And he was saying that BT bid against VM and lost the contract to provide that backhaul capacity to EE. But if BT take over EE, BT may look at that backhaul contract in "unfavourable" terms and may wish to ditch VM.
Misread it but I agree that BT would want to bring those in-house. Maybe there would be a break clause if the supplier (VM) changed owners; very unlikely the other way round.
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