16:13 03/03/2012 London broker comment corner
London broker comment corner; Goldman Sachs upbeat on BT, BSkyB, Virgin Media and Talk Talk
Saturday, March 03, 2012
http://bit.ly/zRO3db By SpikeyDT
17:19 02/03/2012 Proactive Wrap..........................................
END OF DAY NEWS WRAP
Friday, March 02, 2012
4.48pm
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14:29 02/03/2012 Goldman Sachs bullish on UK's major telecoms stocks..
Goldman Sachs bullish on UK's major telecoms stocks
12:41 pm by Philip Whiterow
http://bit.ly/yqo7k6 BT/ By SpikeyDT
22:24 12/02/2012 Virgin Media gears up for death of group viewing By Katherine Rushton, Media, telecoms and technology editor 8:45PM GMT 12 Feb 2012 http://tgr.ph/yTtmHk
Virgin Media gears up for death of group viewing
By Katherine Rushton, Media, telecoms and technology editor
8:45PM GMT 12 Feb 2012
http://tgr.ph/yTtmHk By SpikeyDT
18:07 08/02/2012 First profits at Virgin Media
First profits at Virgin Media
08 February 2012
Virgin Media turns its first profit as it benefits from customers upgrading to premium services
http://bit.ly/wXlvD2 By SpikeyDT
21:40 27/01/2012 This Is Money..
MARKET REPORT:
By GEOFF FOSTER
27th January 2012
http://bit.ly/wxrvKN By SpikeyDT
9:25 22/01/2012 Neil Berkett in BBC Trust attack
Virgin Media chief Neil Berkett in BBC Trust attack
By Katherine Rushton, Media, telecoms and technology editor
10:00PM GMT 21 Jan 2012
http://tgr.ph/y53aMs By SpikeyDT
20:56 18/01/2012 Mid week London broker comment corner..
Mid week London broker comment corner; Vodafone, BT, Virgin Media, Inmarsat, Telenet, Liberty Global
Thursday, January 19, 2012 by Proactive Investors
http://bit.ly/yeWUeW By SpikeyDT
20:36 24/12/2011 This Is Money the battle continues
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-2077704/IAG-swoops-bmi-bargain-basement-deal.html
 IAG swoops for bmi with a bargain basement deal
By ROB DAVIES
Last updated at 10:04 PM on 22nd December 2011
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British Airways owner IAG has cemented its dominance of Heathrow with a bargain basement deal for bmi, brushing off fierce objections from rival bidder Virgin Atlantic.
IAG will pay Lufthans a £172.5million for the airline, just two years after the German carrier was forced to pay £223million for founder Sir Michael Bishop’s 51 per cent stake when he exercised an option to sell.
The price-tag will be reduced even further if Lufthansa is unable to sell bmi regional and bmibaby, the loss -making airline’s low-cost division, before the acquisition is sealed.

Cut-price deal: The agreement takes IAG's share of landing slots at Heathrow from 45 per cent to 53 per cent
Lufthansa has agreed to take on bmi’s £180million pension deficit as part of the agreement.
IAG boss Willie Walsh said it had taken ‘difficult negotiations’ to reach a deal that takes the carrier’s share of landing slots at Heathrow from 45 per cent to 53 per cent.

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He said IAG would use the slots to add more long-haul routes to the ‘economic powerhouses’ of Asia, citing China, Vietnam and Indonesia as target destinations.
He said restructuring bmi, which lost £153million in 2010, would inevitably lead to job losses but insisted that new routes would ultimately compensate in part.
‘Obviously bmi failed and if it had been shut down the slots would have been sold to airlines around the world and the jobs. . .would have been exported to foreign airlines,’ he said.
Walsh added that IAG (up 4.8p to 149.9p) had a ‘good case’ to get the deal past European competition authorities, pointing out that the sale of bmi regional and bmibaby would help satisfy antitrust concerns.
City analysts said approval was by no means a ‘foregone conclusion’ but was unlikely to prove a major obstacle.
Walsh, famous for his pugnacious style when battling unions at British Airways, hit back at allegations by Virgin tycoon Sir Richard Branson that the deal ‘screws the travelling public’.
‘To suggest that this is somehow bad for competition is a nonsense,’ he said.
‘Everybody know his [Branson’s] sole concern is him. We’re not going to be distracted.’ He suggested the entrepreneur was simply looking for ‘public sympathy’.
Virgin lodged a lower bid for bmi than IAG, believing uncertainty over receiving competition clearance would persuade the German airline to part with its subsidiary for less.
Lufthansa is now seeking buyers for bmi regional and bmibaby to ensure the value of the deal – due to complete early next year – is not cut.
Walsh said he believed the airline would have no trouble selling the regional business, but pi tched the chances of a swift bmibaby sale as no better than ‘50/50’.

Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-2077704/IAG-swoops-bmi-bargain-basement-deal.html#ixzz1hUDZUTXH
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6:19 13/12/2011 The Scotsman
Virgin ready to gate-crash BA’s BMI bid to clinch slots at Heathrow
13 December 2011
http://bit.ly/tkTbhM By SpikeyDT
17:42 27/07/2011 Virgin Media plans bumper cash return
Virgin Media plans bumper cash return
Created: 27 July 2011 Written by: John Hughman
http://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/Companies/ByEvent/Results/Inbrief/article/20110727/d575a45e-b83f-11e0-ab56-00144f2af8e8/Virgin-Media-plans-bumper-cash-return.jsp
Virgin Media softened the impact of slightly disappointing half-year results with news of a larger than expected share buy-back programme.
Having completed £325m of buy-backs in the last year, the TV and telecoms provider will buy back a further £625m of shares over the next 18 months, which it said was an expression of confidence in its ability to keep generating huge cash flows. Free cash flow climbed 43.8 per cent over the half year, as the company's 4.8m cable customers spent more on services.
The number of cable customers slipped by 36,000 in the second quarter, but management said most cancellations were lower value single or double-play customers, and that the proportion of triple-play subscribers had continued to increase, driving average revenue per user up 3.2 per cent to £47.35.
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Virgin Media's cable-based service gives it an advantage over other broadband operators, but we still worry that shrinking household budgets could put a dampener on subscriber growth. Fairly priced at 1,670p. By SpikeyDT
9:53 16/07/2011 The Times-Share Tips..
Saturday Papers: Rank finally accepts Guoco offer - tips, comment and bids
by Himanshu Singh on Jul 16, 2011 at 00:01
The Times
http://www.citywire.co.uk/money/saturday-papers-rank-finally-accepts-guoco-offer-tips-comment-and-bids/a508463/full
* Kerry Group is in exclusive talks with Cargill to buy the US group’s global flavours business.

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* UBS's most preferred stocks in London are the chemicals producer Croda, the broadband provider TalkTalk and Virgin Media. By SpikeyDT
17:53 09/02/2011 VMED in top telecom stocks to follow 2011
VMED rated one of the top ten telecom shares for 2011 and 2012.

http://www.thestreet.com/story/11001803/6/10-top-rated-telecom-stocks.html By Brimach1
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Having 'resolved' my issues with Virgin (by agreeing that it would be far more hassle and cost for me to go through a new installation with one of their competitors so I will pay the price they've decided to charge me and not the price we agreed up front), I can't bring myself to invest in a company that treats its customers in such a disgusting manner. Their business model seems to be 'lie to get the customer, then when you have got them, treat them like dirt because you know it is a pain for them to move'. On ethical grounds, this is a no-no for me. By AvonSeaWitch