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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Vodafone are alarmed as they'll be the smallest of the major mobile network operators soon. 3/O2 will be a far larger mobile operator, BT/EE a larger operator in every way.
They know they're going to have to spend some serious cash to keep up with the Joneses.
Liberty Global is an option, but then I've heard rumours of another interested party in that one that is potentially a better fit, and Liberty's more recent corporate structuring work would make it far easier for this party to acquire the group and divest where required.
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I think a lot of these rumours eminate from interested parties who pitch them to the companies concerned in the hope that they will get some of the work.
The suggested break-up of Liberty Global sees the European arm merging with Vodafone and the Latin American businesses going to Comcast. I don't think Vodafone has many other options in the UK. It could of course purchase TalkTalk and operate it as a budget brand in a similar same way to which BT operates PlusNet but it would still have to introduce its own premium broadband/TV offering. TalkTalk would give it a head start and economies of scale in purchasing content but may just complicate matters.