Virgin Media O2 explores bid for rival TalkTalk
by Mark Sweney from World news | The Guardian on (#61EWF)
Pay-TV, broadband and mobile company aims to build scale to take on BT and Sky
Virgin Media O2 has explored making a multibillion-pound offer for broadband and the telecoms company TalkTalk in its latest move to build scale to create a new national champion" to challenge BT and Sky.
The pay-TV, broadband and mobile company, which is jointly owned by Spain's Telefonica and John Malone's Liberty Global, is understood to have held exploratory talks with the Salford-based TalkTalk.
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