mo4ch:> Virgin Media and O2 join forces to take on BT | Mo4ch News

7 May 2020 Image copyrightVirgin MediaMobile operator O2 and broadband giant Virgin Media are to merge, creating one of the UK's largest entertainment and telecoms firms and a major rival to BT.Liberty Global, which owns Virgin Media, and Spain's Telefonica, which owns O2, said they had agreed terms for joining forces.O2 is the UK's largest phone company with about 34 million users.Virgin has about six million broadband and cable TV customers and another three million mobile users.As well as having its own subscribers, O2 provides the network for Tesco Mobile, Giffgaff and Sky Mobile. The tie-up will create a major rival to BT by bringing together different platforms.Telefonica chief executive Jose Maria Alvarez-Pallete said: "Combining O2's number one mobile business with Virgin Media's superfast broadband network and entertainment services will be a game-changer in the UK, at a time when demand for connectivity has never been greater or more critical."Mik…