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Media Boy UK 04-10-2021 14:21

Sky could partner with Virgin Media for fibre build
 
A Sunday newspaper report that suggested the Comcast-owned pay-TV operator was preparing to partner with Virgin Media O2’s fibre rollout.

However, the source quoted in the Sunday Telegraph said that Sky was likely to keep its options open by using both Virgin Media and BT.

https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2021...r-fibre-build/

Jaymoss 04-10-2021 14:49

Re: Sky could partner with Virgin Media for fibre build
 
would love to see some decent competition against VM as I loathe them as a company but stuck with them for the BB

OLD BOY 04-10-2021 15:10

Re: Sky could partner with Virgin Media for fibre build
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Jaymoss (Post 36095767)
would love to see some decent competition against VM as I loathe them as a company but stuck with them for the BB

Loathe them? Why? It’s just a company providing a service to you. Is it a reliability problem and you have no alternative? I know some areas are problematical as they rely on legacy systems.

1andrew1 05-10-2021 01:01

Re: Sky could partner with Virgin Media for fibre build
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 36095763)
A Sunday newspaper report that suggested the Comcast-owned pay-TV operator was preparing to partner with Virgin Media O2’s fibre rollout.

However, the source quoted in the Sunday Telegraph said that Sky was likely to keep its options open by using both Virgin Media and BT.

https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2021...r-fibre-build/

Only Openreach has universal coverage, so Sky would still have to use them for a lot of the country even if they signed a deal with VM02.

Jaymoss 05-10-2021 01:20

Re: Sky could partner with Virgin Media for fibre build
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36095769)
Loathe them? Why? It’s just a company providing a service to you. Is it a reliability problem and you have no alternative? I know some areas are problematical as they rely on legacy systems.

The over inflated prices for existing companies, their whole contract policy, their untrained CS, over biased on new installations and not existing customers unless you re-negotiate another contract. Plenty more but do not want to bore you

The service is great for me but the as I said it is the company I have issues with

Hom3r 11-10-2021 18:03

Re: Sky could partner with Virgin Media for fibre build
 
It is going to be very expensive for one operator to cover the entire country.


What they need to do is get together and split the areas and share their resources.


I mean phone towers can be shared by multiple providers, even if say it was build by BT.


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