19-11-2014, 15:27
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UPC Ireland and VM
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19-11-2014, 16:49
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Re: UPC Ireland and VM
Not really. It was one of the first questions asked when Liberty bought VM.
UPC Ireland used to be NTL Ireland.
I still know many of the people at UPC from the NTL days and we still work closely together on certain things.
Don't know what this may lead to though.
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19-11-2014, 17:28
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Re: UPC Ireland and VM
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Not really. It was one of the first questions asked when Liberty bought VM.
UPC Ireland used to be NTL Ireland.
I still know many of the people at UPC from the NTL days and we still work closely together on certain things.
Don't know what this may lead to though.
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I will rephrase, interesting move to people who dont have the benefit of your insight.
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19-11-2014, 18:11
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Re: UPC Ireland and VM
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Not really. It was one of the first questions asked when Liberty bought VM.
UPC Ireland used to be NTL Ireland.
I still know many of the people at UPC from the NTL days and we still work closely together on certain things.
Don't know what this may lead to though.
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Have Liberty made any soundings about moving operational management of network out of the UK NMCs into the Netherlands yet?
Merger of at least some parts of the Irish operation into the UK one would make a fair amount of sense.
Either way it's all unlikely to have any visible impact on VM customers as it would be Ireland into UK - an 855,000 homes passed operation is considerably easier to merge into a 12.6 million homes passed operation than the reverse.
EDIT: I still remember looking at the network that ntl had sold UPC and wondering if they knew what they had in store as far as upgrade bill went. Clearly they did! Dublin was always decent. Cork, Limerick and Galway were somewhat shoe-horned into handling broadband, in a fashion, the rest a one-way MATV platform; everything besides Dublin needed rebuild though.
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UPC Ireland’s customers are located in five regional clusters, including the capital city of Dublin, and the cities of Cork, Galway, and Limerick. Its cable network is 87% upgraded to two-way capacity, with 88% of its cable homes served by a network with a bandwidth of at least 750 Mhz.
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19-11-2014, 19:11
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Re: UPC Ireland and VM
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Have Liberty made any soundings about moving operational management of network out of the UK NMCs into the Netherlands yet?
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Nope, I predict that would probably never happen.
They have aligned some parts of the business into a more European centric channel.
things like Architecture for example.
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Merger of at least some parts of the Irish operation into the UK one would make a fair amount of sense.
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This would make perfect sense and I could certainly see management of the Eire operations moving to Langley.
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20-11-2014, 15:30
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Re: UPC Ireland and VM
I read somewhere that UPC Ireland may need to close in the coming years (Cant find link).
As Ireland are set to resell their broadcast streams by 2020.
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22-11-2014, 08:39
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Re: UPC Ireland and VM
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Originally Posted by Media Boy
I read somewhere that UPC Ireland may need to close in the coming years (Cant find link).
As Ireland are set to resell their broadcast streams by 2020.
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I don't understand that at all I'm afraid
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12-01-2015, 14:20
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Re: UPC Ireland and VM
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0UR2B920150112
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LONDON, Jan 12 (IFR) - Liberty Global is reorganising its European businesses, merging UPC Netherlands with Ziggo, and UPC Ireland with Virgin Media, according to sources close to the matter.
Virgin Media meanwhile is raising £300m of secured bonds and £625m-equivalent of unsecured bonds to back its acquisition of UPC Ireland.
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12-01-2015, 14:48
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Re: UPC Ireland and VM
Wonder if folding it into VM's corporate structure means that UPC Ireland could use the 'Virgin' brand?
They only dropped 'ntl' from the branding in 2010
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12-01-2015, 15:00
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Re: UPC Ireland and VM
Personally can't see it happening in the short term, it would be potentially confusing if 'Virgin Media' did two different sets of products e.g. TiVo in one country and Horizon in another. Especially for those in Northern Ireland with relatives in the Republic of Ireland (and vice versa)
Although watch me now get proven wrong.
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12-01-2015, 18:42
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Re: UPC Ireland and VM
Stuff like that isn't beyond the norm in Ireland, I think we're all used to things just being a bit different across the border.
For example, Tayto crisps.
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12-01-2015, 19:01
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Re: UPC Ireland and VM
What on earth are tayto crisps
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12-01-2015, 19:13
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Re: UPC Ireland and VM
Tayto is a crisp manufacturer based in Northern Ireland.
Tayto is also a crisp manufacturer based in the Republic of Ireland.
The two are completely unrelated to each other. Other than they both make crisps.
EDIT: Apparently Tayto (NI) is the 3rd biggest crisp manufacturer in the UK, they own Golden Wonder and a few others. TIL.
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12-01-2015, 19:15
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Re: UPC Ireland and VM
And both have big smiley potato faces on their homepage
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12-01-2015, 19:22
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Re: UPC Ireland and VM
Indeed. I can tell you that they both taste very different from each other, or at least there's enough of a distinction for you to have a preference. So we're used to the "Same but not the same" thing when it comes to crossing the border.
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