FT: Virgin sells national broadband customers

[Media Boy UK]

FT.co.uk says on Tuesday:

TalkTalk has also acquired close to 100,000 National broadband customers from Virgin, which wants to offer only superfast internet access, for an undisclosed fee.

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No link due to FT being an pay web site.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

FT.co.uk says on Tuesday:



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All the old National customers now with good old Talk Talk

[Stop It]

Originally Posted by Sirius

All the old National customers now with good old Talk Talk

Considering how bad the VM national service was, that may not be a bad thing. I had to use it back in 2011/2012, the issues I suffered then seem not to be fixed either. Talk Talk can't be any worse!

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Sirius

All the old National customers now with good old Talk Talk

They should breathe a sigh of relief really. National have always been very much second class citizens and the service for those not on the Vodafone network was in many cases banal.

Generally a positive. Be interesting to see how the migrations from Vodafone to TalkTalk LLU go though.

Not sure what you mean by the Vodafone network, can you explain.

[BenMcr]

Vodafone bough Cable & Wireless' LLU network, which National used for some customer connections

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Vodafone bough Cable & Wireless' LLU network, which National used for some customer connections

Crikey, that must have been a long time ago?

[qasdfdsaq]

Not really. Just two years.

[Pierre]

It was the old " Bulldog" brand IIRC.

But VM have not wanted it for some time now, as it doesn't fit with their super fast broadband image.

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Originally Posted by BenMcr

Vodafone bough Cable & Wireless' LLU network, which National used for some customer connections

They didn't just buy the LLU, they bought all of Cable And Wireless (except the Caribbean and Channel Islands bits)

They are now going to be offering TV using the ExC&W fibre backbone, which is an a amalgamation of Mercury, Energis, Thus, Fibrenet & Yourcoms fibre backbones.

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Not really. Just two years.

Really, must have missed that one, can't recall reading anything about it

[qasdfdsaq]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17810568

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Originally Posted by Pierre

They didn't just buy the LLU, they bought all of Cable And Wireless (except the Caribbean and Channel Islands bits)

They are now going to be offering TV using the ExC&W fibre backbone, which is an a amalgamation of Mercury, Energis, Thus, Fibrenet & Yourcoms fibre backbones.

As well as running business and 4G services over it.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Pierre

They are now going to be offering TV using the ExC&W fibre backbone, which is an a amalgamation of Mercury, Energis, Thus, Fibrenet & Yourcoms fibre backbones.

Yes read this yesterday , wonder if they'll have any success its already a pretty crowded market.

[Horizon]

Originally Posted by Pierre

It was the old " Bulldog" brand IIRC.

But VM have not wanted it for some time now, as it doesn't fit with their super fast broadband image.

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They didn't just buy the LLU, they bought all of Cable And Wireless (except the Caribbean and Channel Islands bits)

They are now going to be offering TV using the ExC&W fibre backbone, which is an a amalgamation of Mercury, Energis, Thus, Fibrenet & Yourcoms fibre backbones.

Everything goes in circles.....

With Vodafone and Liberty competing against each other for cable tv assets, how long can it be before these two companies come together?

Hence the circles comment, as Cable & Wireless (as it was then) was one of the major parts that now make up VM today. I'm pretty sure some parts of my telephone service, if not all, use C&W's backbone, especially 999 services.

As for the 100k, yep, they needed to go. They didn't have access to a cable service, so it just muddled VM's brand keeping them on.

[jb66]

I hope staff members can get staff rates on talktalk

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by jb66

I hope staff members can get staff rates on talktalk

I'm sure TalkTalk staff can. Probably be a while before the Virgin National brand is completely extinguished and migrated to TalkTalk's systems so I imagine things won't change initially.

Once it is migrated I see no reason why TalkTalk would give discounts to the staff of a competitor, so...