Sky buys out O2/BE broadband business

British Sky Broadcasting is acquiring the O2 broadband and fixed line telephony business for up to £200 million, to become the UK's number two broadband provider, ahead of Virgin. BSkyB has done the deal with O2 owner Telefónica and the transfer of business also covers the BE consumer broadband brand. Telefónica UK’s consumer broadband and fixed-line telephony customers total around 500,000. Post completion, O2 and BE customers will be migrated onto Sky’s fully unbundled network, supported by a nationwide all-fibre core, which reaches 84 percent of all UK homes, claims BSkyB. BSkyB says it has around 4.2 million broadband customers and 4 million telephony customers. O2 and BE customers will be migrated onto the Sky Core network once the sale has gone through. Please call us on 020 8445 6700 if you are worried that this will affect you. Optima Computers