[Rdd]

Absolutely, but a seller without a buyer is in a bit of a pickle. The story is well trodden by now but basically they do want out, made public statements about wanting to go into a JV with a mobile network and then realised that there’s no one to buy it particularly when it comes attached to an old-fashioned free to air broadcast business. Neither Vodafone or Three have shown any interest in getting into that market anywhere else. Alas if O2 had stayed in the Irish market it probably would have become part of the U.K. JV but they sold to Three a few years back (a similar deal in the U.K. was refused competition clearance if I recall).

So two years later, they’re still here, and as much as they want to sell, there’s no obvious buyer who wants to take both a broadband network and a free to air commercial tv business.