Owen Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 And Gatwick is up for sale: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7620293.stm -------------------- Tech Blog - WordPress Guru - Business Blog Catch me on Twitter or Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbms Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 So we could say this panic on this financial meldown is realy taking off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemonday Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Potential bidders include Australian company MacQuarie, oooerr matron! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonan3 Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Do we spot some kind of CONNECTION? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silentbob Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7620293.stm It was a forced thing to do with them having a monopoly. Would be a bit like the Isle of Man Monopolies commission say that Manx Telecom had to sell half their off island link, or Steam Packet would have to share the linkspan. Of course, in the UK, the monopolies commission actually work for a living Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
When Skies Are Grey Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I am sure Peel Holdings will be in the mix for this too at some stage.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wright Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I think the more interesting question is why after BAA was in public ownership as a monoopoly andthen flaoted and in private, but British ownership as a monopoly no questions asked, why it is only after BAA was bought by the Spanish that the sell off instruction came from the Monopolies and Mergers Commission Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QLD-Bloke Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7620293.stm It was a forced thing to do with them having a monopoly. Would be a bit like the Isle of Man Monopolies commission say that Manx Telecom had to sell half their off island link, or Steam Packet would have to share the linkspan. Of course, in the UK, the monopolies commission actually work for a living Be fair, Silentbob - Manx Telecom do not have an off-island link to have to share with anyone else. They have to pay the going rate from one of two UK based companies who own the resilient links or use the government one (MEA) which is a single cable and does not therefore have the same resilience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silentbob Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7620293.stm It was a forced thing to do with them having a monopoly. Would be a bit like the Isle of Man Monopolies commission say that Manx Telecom had to sell half their off island link, or Steam Packet would have to share the linkspan. Of course, in the UK, the monopolies commission actually work for a living Be fair, Silentbob - Manx Telecom do not have an off-island link to have to share with anyone else. They have to pay the going rate from one of two UK based companies who own the resilient links or use the government one (MEA) which is a single cable and does not therefore have the same resilience. Still a monopoly for a long time. And everything will still have to go via MT at some stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twitch Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7620293.stm It was a forced thing to do with them having a monopoly. Would be a bit like the Isle of Man Monopolies commission say that Manx Telecom had to sell half their off island link, or Steam Packet would have to share the linkspan. Of course, in the UK, the monopolies commission actually work for a living Be fair, Silentbob - Manx Telecom do not have an off-island link to have to share with anyone else. They have to pay the going rate from one of two UK based companies who own the resilient links or use the government one (MEA) which is a single cable and does not therefore have the same resilience. Still a monopoly for a long time. And everything will still have to go via MT at some stage. this is obviously bollox then? http://www.gov.im/mea/e_llan.xml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QLD-Bloke Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7620293.stm It was a forced thing to do with them having a monopoly. Would be a bit like the Isle of Man Monopolies commission say that Manx Telecom had to sell half their off island link, or Steam Packet would have to share the linkspan. Of course, in the UK, the monopolies commission actually work for a living Be fair, Silentbob - Manx Telecom do not have an off-island link to have to share with anyone else. They have to pay the going rate from one of two UK based companies who own the resilient links or use the government one (MEA) which is a single cable and does not therefore have the same resilience. Still a monopoly for a long time. And everything will still have to go via MT at some stage. this is obviously bollox then? http://www.gov.im/mea/e_llan.xml Since e-llan is the company that controls the only 'Manx' cable, Bob is correct that MT's a monopoly and all calls go through them at some point - even VOIP calls use the MT local loop and whoever your provider is, £15 or so goes to MT every month for the ADSL line. My point was that the off-island rates weren't set by MT and they had to pay some pretty steep charges to two non-manx companies. Companies can 'buy direct' from C&W or BT for off-island access but to get to the jump-off points for BT/CW the data goes via MT fibres so MT do get a bit of cash for every call or data transfer (one way or another) IIRC correctly e-llan offers high bandwidth to other telcos and it is up to these other telcos to provide improved services or reduced rates and, again, getting the data from home/business to e-llan's PoP will probably involve MT somewhere along the line. C&W are supposed to be changing this but lets see if they're interested in the domestic market or just wnating to pick off the high value mobile and business customers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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