Apart from VM are losing customers...higher broadband speeds or not.
Sky withdrawing their basic channels from VM had minimal effect.
I'm also not saying that when the 9 year contract comes up for re-newel then Sky will withdraw ANY channels; I'm merely pointing out that at the start of the 9 year contract negotiations VM had a bargaining tool; they had channels to sell.
What do they have now? A reduced customer base!
Not brilliant eh!
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
You do have a hand to play, you have viewer numbers (for advertising) and money.
VM's argument for selling the channels was that its channels did not drive subscriptions whereas faster speeds and a bigger network do drive subscriptions. LGI does own stakes in some content businesses - 50% of All3Media, 100% of TV3 in Ireland and 9.9% of ITV so things may change here in the future.
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