2023年3月22日

Virgin Media O2 (VMO2)據報道探索收購寬帶提供商Cityfibre可能價值£30億。這是據英國《每日電訊報》,它所學到的報道,邁克之間發生了首次會談薯條,自由全球首席執行官(Virgin Media的母公司O2)和Cityfibre老板格雷格•梅斯。倫敦CityFibre是前提的纖維寬帶供應商在英國至少60個城市包括倫敦和紐約,包括沃達豐和TalkTalk向電信提供服務提供者。VMO2收購?上個月CityFibre宣布計劃裁員400人——或五分之一的勞動力——為了降低成本。在2021年它損失了將近£50米。CityFibre全光纖網絡網絡達到200萬戶,但它希望到2025年達到800萬的屬性。據英國《每日電訊報》,收購虧損的業務將有助於Virgin Media O2擴大其網絡,滿足其目標的整個網絡升級到完整的纖維。據說Cityfibre估計有50%的網絡與維珍媒體O2的網絡。一個來源報道說Cityfibre可以命令超過£30億的價格標簽。 VMO2 and Cityfibre declined to comment to the Telegraph. Joint venture Virgin Media O2 is jointly owned by Liberty Global and Telefonica, after Virgin Media (owned by Liberty Global) and mobile operator O2 (owned by Telefonica) agreed in 2020 that they would form a 50:50 joint venture . The joint venture combined Virgin Media’s broadband, TV, mobile and landline services with the mobile operations of O2, which is the UK’s largest mobile platform. The two firms undertook the merger, so the combined entity could present a more significant challenge to BT ( which owns EE ) going forward. It should be noted Virgin Media’s network covers roughly 53 percent of UK homes , as its network reach tends to be more centred around towns and cities, and not in more rural locations or villages.