NTL to merge with Virgin???

The Sunday Times has the story, NTL to merge with Virgin,
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...903898,00.html. Does this
mean we will get NTL style customer disservice on our mobile telephones now?

I can't see the point of this triple or quad play business, there is such a
thing as having all your eggs in one basket.

S. Althaf

"Clueless" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> The Sunday Times has the story, NTL to merge with Virgin,
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...903898,00.html.
> Does this mean we will get NTL style customer disservice on our
> mobile telephones now?
>
> I can't see the point of this triple or quad play business,
> there is such a thing as having all your eggs in one basket.
>

The article cited is very unclear as to who is expected to do what
to whom e.g.

"SIR Richard Branson is to combine Virgin’s mobile phone business
with NTL..."

....

"It was not clear last night whether NTL intends to make a cash
offer for Virgin Mobile..."

Clueless wrote

> The Sunday Times has the story, NTL to merge with Virgin,
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...903898,00.html. Does this
> mean we will get NTL style customer disservice on our mobile telephones now?
>
> I can't see the point of this triple or quad play business, there is such a
> thing as having all your eggs in one basket.
>

Any company that gets into bed with Branson, soon learns to regret it.
Branson is prolly after cash to prop up his other ailing businesses.

MinusNet wrote:
>
> Any company that gets into bed with Branson, soon learns to regret it.
> Branson is prolly after cash to prop up his other ailing businesses.
>

That's been the standard response to Branson for as long as I can
remember and yet curiously he and Virgin are still here and apparently
doing well (unless you read the Sunday Times)

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

Tony Raven wrote

> MinusNet wrote:
> >
> > Any company that gets into bed with Branson, soon learns to regret it.
> > Branson is prolly after cash to prop up his other ailing businesses.
> >
>
> That's been the standard response to Branson for as long as I can
> remember and yet curiously he and Virgin are still here and apparently
> doing well (unless you read the Sunday Times)
>
>

http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?...&id=2107652005

Heard of Virgin Nigeria the 419 airline?

MinusNet wrote:
>
> http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?...&id=2107652005
>

That just says that when the franchise comes up for renewal they are
going to restructure the franchise.

> Heard of Virgin Nigeria the 419 airline?
>

What of it? Its now flying to 6 destinations from Lagos

Heard of Virgin Atlantic - consistently voted the best longhaul carrier
- or Virgin Blue which now has around 30% of the Australian domestic market?

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

Tony Raven wrote


> > http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?...&id=2107652005
> >
>
> That just says that when the franchise comes up for renewal they are
> going to restructure the franchise.

They lost the franchise.

> > Heard of Virgin Nigeria the 419 airline?
> >
>
> What of it? Its now flying to 6 destinations from Lagos

This week, maybe.


> Heard of Virgin Atlantic - consistently voted the best longhaul carrier
> - or Virgin Blue which now has around 30% of the Australian domestic market?
>

Good. Best place for Branson is the other side of the world.

"MinusNet" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Tony Raven wrote
>
>
> > > http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?...&id=2107652005
> > >
> >
> > That just says that when the franchise comes up for renewal they are
> > going to restructure the franchise.
>
> They lost the franchise.
>
> > > Heard of Virgin Nigeria the 419 airline?
> > >
> >
> > What of it? Its now flying to 6 destinations from Lagos
>
> This week, maybe.
>
>
> > Heard of Virgin Atlantic - consistently voted the best longhaul carrier
> > - or Virgin Blue which now has around 30% of the Australian domestic
market?
> >
>
> Good. Best place for Branson is the other side of the world.
>

What have you got against him?

Mikael Armstrong wrote


> >
> > Good. Best place for Branson is the other side of the world.
> >
>
> What have you got against him?
>

He's a fucking crook. He should have gone to prison when he was 21,
when he fiddled the taxman out of £50k - others would have. Lucky for
him, his family have good connections.

Read - Branson by Tom Bower

MinusNet wrote:
> Tony Raven wrote
>
>
>>> http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?...&id=2107652005
>>>
>> That just says that when the franchise comes up for renewal they are
>> going to restructure the franchise.
>
> They lost the franchise.
>

No they didn't. It comes up for rebid in 2007 when it will be
restructured and Virgin will be rebiding. They only "lose it" in the
sense that Crosscountry in its present form will end then but it will be
replaced by another franchise Virgin have said they will be bidding for.

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham