Mike Fries
President and CEO
Well, no, I will say there has been no demonstrable change in position of the regulator in Germany on the issue of cable consolidation. I don’t and we don’t have any intension at this stage to force that issue or to get them to reconsider that issue, as there is no transaction or event necessary at this point or in the future. So, I don’t believe there’s been a substantive change in their position. I do believe however, over time, they will see the benefits of infrastructure based competition and they will see the advantages of a consolidated cable platform and both the consumers and to be overall competitive environment there, but until we have a transaction or any reason to ask that question, I don’t know that we are going to get any clarity around it. The Tele Columbus, KDGDO, was a different set of circumstances and I am not sure you can draw any conclusions from their position on that particular transaction since it’s a very different set of circumstances. But, you know, I remain hopeful, I will put it that way, that at some point regulators will see the benefits of consolidation but at this stage no immediate change. We haven’t pursued a lot of consolidated German wired opportunities with KDG, they had been pretty busy, we had been pretty busy. We do cooperate on a number of levels in a number of areas, but national Wi-Fi rollout at this stage, I don’t believe is one of them. I think Deutsche Telekom’s transaction with phone, the sort of Wi-Fi sharing platform, is something we can duplicate pretty easily, I mean, its most of the modems we put out today have dual-SSID chips. And so we easily effectuate a comparable platform to phone should we choose to. I am not sure its the most beneficial use of our time and energy today in that market, we are still 200,000 broadband adds a quarter, I think Deutsche Telekom did 3000 nationwide, I believe in the fourth quarter. So I mean the real opportunity for us is to continue to push our broadband platform, continue to get Horizon rolled out, and continue to grow double-digit revenue and EBITDA there.