Slighty old news and some may know already but it seems Sky want to buy the parts of Everything Everywheres network it has to sell aspart of the T-Mobile Orange merger.
Or perhaps buy up 3uk which is a better idea I think, I really like this idea and would snap up a Sky mobile for a quad-play one bill. Thoughts? This wouldnt be a piggy back virtual network like VM but a proper Sky mobile network.
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Pay-TV giant Sky is in negotiations with mobile giant Everything Everywhere over launching its own mobile service, according to a newspaper report.
Sky already offers broadband and landline services to customers, on top of its core offering of satellite television.
But cable-based rival Virgin Media is able to offer a 'quad-play' service as it operates Virgin Mobile, made possible via a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement, involving a provider 'piggy backing' on a mobile network.
The Sunday Times yesterday (May 27) reported that Sky is in talks with Everything Everywhere about buying a portion of spectrum that the mobile firm has to sell as part of the joint venture deal between Orange and T-Mobile.
Sky would be able to build its own network after buying the spectrum, but the paper noted that shareholders will most probably be concerned over the £3 to 4 billion cost attached to that strategy.
The satellite firm could instead look to purchase an existing network operator, such as the UK arm of Hutchison Whampoa, after the firm said that it may pull out of Britain if the planned 4G auction does not favour the smaller operators.
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