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Telecoms giant BT posted flat results for its second quarter earnings, just days after it was given the green light by Blighty's spending watchdog to snap up mobile operator EE for £12.5bn. For the three months to September, the one-time state monopoly posted flat revenue of £4.38bn for the second half of 2015, compared with …

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  1. Your alien overlord - fear me

    200,000 existing mob users - what flag do they run under?

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    1. Michael B.
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      Apparently there is a BT Mobile which is an MVNO running on top of EE.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    the one-time state monopoly

    And still a state funded monopoly in terms of never having to pay for their infrastructure

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    1. Steven Jones
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      Re: the one-time state monopoly

      So you managed to forget that the shareholders actually bought the infrastructure off the government. In what sense is that being given it?

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  3. Steven Jones

    Spending Watchdog?

    "Blighty's spending watchdog"

    A strange description for the Competition and Mergers Authority (CMA), which oversees issues of business markets and trading standards. Those words are more appropriate for the National Audit Office,

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