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Originally Posted by muppetman11
Thinking out loud
Could we not see Sky purchase Hyperoptic ?
Would there be any benefits ? And would there be any benefits ?
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Doubtful, minimal and minimal.
Hyperoptic lease their network outside of the apartments from BT and others. They lease their network hardware the customers connect to that's in the basements of the apartments. They have no real overlap with Sky's existing operations.
Sky purchased the O2/Be customer base with the intention of taking their customers on O2/Be hardware in exchanges and moving them over to their own ADSL hardware in the exchanges. This allowed Sky better economies of scale within the exchanges and to make this change wasn't much more than a bunch of orders to BT to do lift and shifts to rejumper lines and increase capacity on their own kit.
Sky have no equivalent for the Hyperoptic product. The only saving initially would be in being able to connect the Hyperoptic buildings to their existing backhaul in BT exchanges and use their own national network. As the Hyperoptic circuits between buildings and exchanges ran to term they could perhaps also replace some of these with the network they bought from Easynet.
Not sure what'd be in it for Sky. Covering a hundred thousand MDU premises isn't really their thing.
EDIT: Inevitably now I've said that Sky will acquire Hyperoptic on Monday.