RIP UK Sky Broadband

[Noctus]

Comcast have just bought Sky Broadband for £30bil apparently. 

 

Swear to god if any other buyouts by Time Warner or Comcast happen over here for other Internet companies and they bring their shite business practices with them, i shall be very angry and do bad things.

 

Thoughts? 

 

https://www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-6222409/amp/Did-Murdoch-lure-Comcast-overpay-30bn-Sky.html?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1#amp_tf=From %1%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fmoney%2Fmarkets%2Farticle-6222409%2FDid-Murdoch-lure-Comcast-overpay-30bn-Sky.html

[Fasauceome]

Comcast on the fast track to becoming the first legal cable monopoly, woohoo.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

f to pay respects

[PlayStation 2]

matt lauer

[Fasauceome]

Just now, valdyrgramr said:

Well, they can just go straight to jail.

Not with all the money they've got. Worst case scenario, they go to rich people jail which is just a resort for 6 months.

There are a bunch of monopolies right now, and none of them are in hot water because the average person doesn't care and they're too rich to get in trouble.

[Fasauceome]

Just now, valdyrgramr said:

It was a monopoly joke.   

too real, it got me

[Sousuke]

Well if Comcast starts messing around with my internet (I'm with Sky UK) then I'll drop them faster than a hot potato. 

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, Sousuke said:

Well if Comcast starts messing around with my internet (I'm with Sky UK) then I'll drop them faster than a hot potato. 

That's sort of the problem Comcast is trying to create, they want you to have no alternatives.

[Morgan Everett]

32 minutes ago, Noctus said:

Comcast have just bought Sky Broadband for £30bil apparently. 

 

Swear to god if any other buyouts by Time Warner or Comcast happen over here for other Internet companies and they bring their shite business practices with them.

 

Thoughts? 

 

https://www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-6222409/amp/Did-Murdoch-lure-Comcast-overpay-30bn-Sky.html?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1#amp_tf=From %1%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fmoney%2Fmarkets%2Farticle-6222409%2FDid-Murdoch-lure-Comcast-overpay-30bn-Sky.html

Bit of advice: I know you’re joking about the murder thing, but some people may read that, decide you’re not, and act accordingly. Just a heads up. 

[Sousuke]

Just now, fasauceome said:

That's sort of the problem Comcast is trying to create, they want you to have no alternatives.

There are loads of Broadband Providers in the UK as the majority of them use BT Lines (ADSL/FTTP) we only have one "Cable" company which is Virgin Media.

 

So it's a problem which they can not cause within the UK. 

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, Sousuke said:

There are loads of Broadband Providers in the UK as the majority of them use BT Lines (ADSL/FTTP) we only have one "Cable" company which is Virgin Media.

 

So it's a problem which they can not cause within the UK. 

not yet, but of course money talks. It's illegal here in the US too but they get away with it anyway.

[Nowak]

Oh no, it's spreading

[Sousuke]

9 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

not yet, but of course money talks. It's illegal here in the US too but they get away with it anyway.

 

I don't get what you mean? 

 

The UK Government has ordered the split of the Openreach business (Deals with the lines directly) with its parent company BT, so if they've ordered that they will not allow Comcast to come along and cause issues with the lines. 

 

In the US the lines (Cable) are owned by their respective companies (AT&T, Comcast etc) whilst 99% of the lines in the UK are owned and operated by Openreach which since its split with BT no longer has any services which run on those lines. All Openreach does is "Rent" the lines to the different companies, Sky included. 

 

So we still have BT, EE, Vodafone, TalkTalk, Plusnet, Post Office etc etc and more. So not 1 company will be able to take over, BT is the nearest thing we have to a monopoly and they aren't too bad.

 

So this is where your prognosis has its flaw. To be 100% Honest with you, I'd have been more worried if Rupert Murdock took over as he'd do more damage than anything else.

[PlayStation 2]

6 minutes ago, Sousuke said:

I don't get what you mean? 

 

The UK Government has ordered the split of the Openreach business (Deals with the lines directly) with its parent company BT, so if they've ordered that they will not allow Comcast to come along and cause issues with the lines. 

 

In the US the lines (Cable) are owned by their respective companies (AT&T, Comcast etc) whilst 99% of the lines in the UK are owned and operated by Openreach which since its split with BT no longer has any services which run on those lines. All Openreach does is "Rent" the lines to the different companies, Sky included. 

 

So we still have BT, EE, Vodafone, TalkTalk, Plusnet, Post Office etc etc and more. So not 1 company will be able to take over, BT is the nearest thing we have to a monopoly and they aren't too bad.

 

So this is where your prognosis has its flaw. To be 100% Honest with you, I'd have been more worried if Rupert Murdock took over as he'd do more damage than anything else.

Eh, Murdoch is on his way out; it's his sons that are more worrisome and frankly, I can imagine the News Corp. properties being more fragmented as time goes on, more specifically their American properties.

[Acid Panda]

well if they come in and reduce prices thats not a bad thing. 

uk regulations are normally quite fast at cutting bushiness off at the legs if they over reach their boundary's. 

also  there are quite a few smaller fibre companies like say gigaclear who came and offered to put gigabit internet to the door. BT sadly got in the way 'wankers'.

but there will be enough competition over here to make things interesting 

[wANKER]

People use Sky Broadband?

[Sousuke]

5 minutes ago, wANKER said:

People use Sky Broadband?

Yes around 6 Million people. 

[wANKER]

1 minute ago, Sousuke said:

Yes around 6 Million poor souls. 

Fixed

[Sousuke]

Just now, wANKER said:

Fixed

Mine is fine, never had a problem with Sky. There are issues with every provider going. 

[Noctus]

2 hours ago, Morgan Everett said:

Bit of advice: I know you’re joking about the murder thing, but some people may read that, decide you’re not, and act accordingly. Just a heads up. 

Edited for those who'd actually think i'd have the money and time to personally do what i said. I'm at that level of rage though. Comcast, stay in the US please. We don't want you.

[handymanshandle]

See, Order 1776 is slowly falling into place. An American is now married into the royal family. We're buying British companies. Soon, we will capture the Commonwealth

[ZcanKal]

4 minutes ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

See, Order 1776 is slowly falling into place. An American is now married into the royal family. We're buying British companies. Soon, we will capture the Commonwealth

Canada is already just Norther Dakota.

[demonix00]

4 hours ago, fasauceome said:

Comcast on the fast track to becoming the first legal cable monopoly, woohoo.

We already have our own legal cable monopoly.

 

It's called Virgin Media

[Tosa]

Petition an ISP from mainland Europe to expand into the UK, maybe? Telenor, for instance. I mean, they're already there in some form, but they don't provide broadband to private customers.

[porina]

2 hours ago, demonix00 said:

We already have our own legal cable monopoly.

 

It's called Virgin Media

Their services are not unique, and alternatives are available. How it is delivered is kinda secondary. Don't like VM, there are many DSL providers and in limited regions, real FTTP connections.