Thread: Will virgin tap into bt?
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Old 24-05-2015, 02:52   #22
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Re: Will virgin tap into bt?
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet View Post
Thing is the only option to expand coverage past the existing areas would either be to pay TalkTalk Wholesale, who are unlikely to want to deal with VM, or BT Wholesale.

Both are expensive per Mbit/s.

VM's cable network usage is running at about twice the average BT Wholesale punter. No way they could pay the bills with that level of usage on an off-net product.
They don't have to pay either TalkTalk or BT Wholesale, after all, the point of putting their own equipment in exchanges was to bypass exactly that. Vodafone are doing the same now, going straight to the Openreach handover point so they can deliver IPTV have to pay BT Wholesale zilch. You'd still have to pay OR line rental but as that's just a dumb ethernet pipe VM wouldn't have to pay BT for any for multicast or data usage.
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