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Old 17-04-2019, 08:33   #303
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Re: John Malone/Liberty/VM General News Thread
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
Surprise rival to VM and BT:

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style...fer-price-deal

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I suppose they'll have to weigh up the fact that it looks good to their regulator and will boost their income against the fact that it will help their competitors (including Sky) and remove a USP:

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style...e-update-speed

If they do this though, maybe VM will again* tie it in with access to the missing Sky channels from their TV service, namely Sky Atlantic.

* In the past they negotiated the supply of many missing channels in return for selling their own channels to Sky.
That should be on the cards anyway, given the announcement by Sky in relation to the BT deal last year.

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Originally Posted by Horizon View Post
Malone is getting old and wants to sell. LG is too small on its own now, so either Malone links all his various assets up, or he sells.

I see the cable cos sold off by LG to Vodafone (which gets cleared soon by the European Commission) as the warm up act to come.

Why not?

Comcast is a cable company, by nature.
I don't think it would get through the Competition Commission, Horizon.

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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
It's not a tiny organisation, of course, but it is small in relation to the biggest hitters and therefore needs to become part of something bigger if it wants to compete effectively in this global market.
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