Liberty Global is in talks with Virgin Media to buy out the UK cable and mobile operator. According to Adrian Drury, principal analyst at Ovum this could be the largest shake-up in the UK telecoms and media sector since the merger of the T-Mobile and Orange UK mobile network operators in 2010.
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