英国电信集团已从破产管理人手中收购了TalkTalk的消费者业务及批发业务。目前这两项业务拥有150万零售客户以及100万批发客户。英国电信于周一宣布了这一交易，并称此前针对这些业务的出售程序历经漫长却未能成功。
BT Group has acquired TalkTalk’s consumer and wholesale businesses out of administration. They have 1.5 million retail customers and 1 million wholesale customers. BT announced the deal on Monday. It said a prolonged sale process for those operations had been unsuccessful.
此次收购中，英国电信以无债务方式购得了TalkTalk Telecommunications Limited以及其批发业务主体PlatformX Communications Limited。据估算，到2027财年时，该交易对英国电信现金流的总体影响约为4亿英镑。这一数额涵盖了收购对价、交易及管理成本、营运资金变动影响，还包括约6000万英镑的运营亏损。此外，若无此次收购，英国电信旗下Openreach部门原本还需承担约1亿英镑的相关支出。
BT bought TalkTalk Telecommunications Limited and PlatformX Communications Limited, the wholesale business, on a debt-free basis. It estimates the total cash impact in its 2027 financial year at about £400M. That figure covers the consideration, transaction and administration costs, and working capital impacts. It also includes a trading loss of about £60M. Another £100M or so would otherwise have been due to BT’s Openreach.
据英国电信透露，过去12个月内TalkTalk的营收约为12亿英镑，但一直处于亏损状态。在相关监管审查期间，TalkTalk与英国电信仍将作为独立实体运营并相互竞争。
TalkTalk reported revenue of about £1.2bn over the last 12 months and was loss-making, BT said. TalkTalk and BT will operate separately and continue to compete while a regulatory review takes place.
“当前情况实属史无前例：一旦TalkTalk倒闭，数百万民众及企业都将面临巨大风险，”英国电信集团首席执行官艾莉森·柯克比说道。
“This is a genuinely unprecedented situation, where millions of citizens and businesses were at risk if TalkTalk had collapsed,” said Allison Kirkby, BT Group’s chief executive.
政府方面也采取了干预措施。英国数字、文化、媒体与体育大臣丽莎·南迪于周一依据《2002年企业法》发布了《公共利益干预通知》。政府表示，英国竞争与市场管理局将就相关市场竞争问题出具报告，而该通知则便于南迪从更广泛的公共利益角度予以考量。英国竞争与市场管理局须在10月19日前向其提交报告。
The government intervenes Lisa Nandy is the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. On Monday she issued a Public Interest Intervention Notice under the Enterprise Act 2002, the government said. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will report on competition concerns. The notice then lets her consider the wider public interest. The CMA must report to her by 19 October.
政府指出，TalkTalk的网络承担着紧急呼叫服务、救护车与医院通信以及医疗警报功能。此前有多家潜在收购方均未能就全盘收购事宜达成一致。
TalkTalk’s networks support calls to emergency services, ambulance and hospital communications and medical alarms, the government said. A number of potential buyers had been unable to agree a sale of the whole business.
“电话与宽带服务属于至关重要的国家基础设施。一旦TalkTalk的服务中断，将切实危及民众生命及公共服务，”南迪说道。
“Phone and broadband services are vital national infrastructure. If TalkTalk services fail, there is a genuine risk to life and public services,” Nandy said.
英国电信于10月2日提出了一项无法律约束力的收购提议。当天，柯克比致信英国通信管理局（Ofcom）首席执行官梅兰妮·道斯。在这封已被该局公开的信中，她指出：TalkTalk的网络仍有部分区域在使用华为设备，英国电信在尽职调查中也发现了这一情况。
Huawei kit in TalkTalk’s network BT made a non-binding offer on 2 October. That day, Kirkby wrote to Melanie Dawes, chief executive of the regulator Ofcom. In the letter, which Ofcom has published, she wrote that TalkTalk still operated Huawei kit in some parts of its network. BT’s due diligence indicated this.
她在信中称，英国电信会将TalkTalk原有的网络与其自身网络完全隔离，包括核心网络部分，且绝不会让任何华为设备进入其网络系统。她还请求Ofcom以书面形式予以确认：即该局会以务实且合作的态度来处理TalkTalk过往的违规行为，而非采取惩罚性措施。
BT would keep the TalkTalk legacy network entirely separate from its own network, including its core, she wrote. No Huawei equipment would move into any of BT’s networks. She asked Ofcom to confirm this in writing: that it would treat TalkTalk’s past non-compliance pragmatically and collaboratively, not punitively.
据彭博社报道，CCS Insight分析师凯斯特·曼恩表示，英国电信目前占据英国零售宽带市场约31%的份额。维珍媒体O2对此提出异议。
Virgin Media O2 objects BT has about 31% of the UK retail broadband market, CCS Insight analyst Kester Mann said, according to Bloomberg.
一位维珍媒体发言人称：“这完全就是一场打着‘维护公共利益的救助协议’旗号的利益勾结行为。”
“This has all the characteristics of a stitch up masked as a rescue deal in the public interest,” a Virgin Media spokesperson said.
在同一份声明中，维珍媒体O2还提及英国竞争与市场管理局（CMA）可能阻止Nexfibre与Netomnia达成交易的计划。维珍媒体O2的母公司Liberty Global与Telefónica与InfraVia共同持有Nexfibre的股份。10月2日，CMA初步认定Nexfibre收购包含Netomnia在内的Substantial集团的行为可能引发市场竞争问题。
In the same statement, Virgin Media O2 pointed to the CMA’s plan to potentially block nexfibre’s deal with Netomnia. Virgin Media O2’s owners, Liberty Global and Telefónica, co-own nexfibre with InfraVia. The CMA provisionally found competition concerns on 2 October about nexfibre’s purchase of Substantial, the group that includes Netomnia.