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Originally Posted by Alan Fry
Tata Communications (part of the Tata Group, which owns Land Rover and Corus) is planning to launch a bid for C&W Worldwide, it will end up as a bidding war between Vodafone and Tata. Still no news on VM!
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/0...8210B320120302
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A takeover of TalkTalk, C&W Worldwide and Everything Everywhere will not give VM a monopoly, because it will still have fewer customers (business and residential) than BT and will have less mobile customers than Vodafone/O2/3!
TalkTalk’s IPTV service could be massively improved by VM so it can reach the other 50% of the UK where it does not provide its TV service!
TalkTalk will not be running VM services, but the other way round, the TalkTalk, C&W Worldwide and Everything Everywhere will dissapear and be replaced by the "Virgin Media" and "Virgin Mobile" brands!
Everything Everywhere biggest issue is that there is a lack of integration and it uses 3 brands (Orange, T-Mobile and Everything Everywhere). Virgin Mobile is a small player in the Mobile Market, so buying the company will make it a serious play in the UK Mobile Market!
A takeover of TalkTalk, C&W Worldwide and Everything Everywhere will on the other hand make VM a powerful player in the phone, TV, Mobile and Internet markets in the UK! |
They wouldn't have the money for that anyway. Everything Everywhere is worth many billions to start off with.
And I will tell you one last time, Virgin Media is not interested in IPTV, it is crap! HD is very limited,bandwith is limited and costs a lot of money to roll out and maintain.
Virgin Media has made arrangements with fujitsu to provide a similar but better service. Virgin Media also prefer to expand there existing network wherever they can where it is seen as commercially viable.
That would be a lot cheaper than acquiring or merging with rival firms.
Virgin Media finds it fairly easy to grab customers and again would be cheaper than acquiring or merging with rival firms.
IPTV is unrealistic and I don't think it is a suitable alternative.
What you are suggesting is what NTL and Telewest did in the past and got them into serious financial problems, Cable and Wireless Worldwide is still doing it and has got them no where! Taking over Thus thinking that will solve there problems.