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Originally Posted by Mr K
If they want to invest more in broadband maybe they should take it out of the 20% increase in share price Liberty Global have made in the the last year, rather than fleecing customers more.
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The share price rising doesn't actually give the company any extra cash to use building networks.
Their network equipment suppliers, staff and contractors want paying with cash, not share price increases.
Anyone who feels fleeced can obviously take their business elsewhere.
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What could be done, however, is for the parent company to not start buying its own shares back in order to prop up the share price and instead invest in infrastructure.
However, share buybacks seem to be the in thing at the moment. They may knacker companies in the longer term as they aren't investing as they should be in plant, R&D, etc, but hey it makes shareholders happy in the short term.