Hello, welcome to countdow. It is 7 00 here in london on this monday morning. Vodafone is looking at a link with liberty global. And talks to buy the portuguese assets. T is all pointing one way analysts expecting a wave of consolidation in the telecom space. Here with more is caroline hyde. Lets start with bt. It has set the cat among the pigeons. It has. We understand it is looking at 02, getting a grip on mobile. It is about quad play. This is the choice of words we use when it comes to telecoms. You have to have all four things if you want to win it. It offers television. Rather nice soccer rights. It now wants to offer mobile as well. The u. K. Is bizarre. We dont often have all four things rolled into one. We like to pick and choose. The way you can make money, the way you can have synergy and stop people moving to rivals is having all four things. Is considering teaming up with its old rival, liberty global. Remember, they used to battle over assets in germany. He were trying to
We had down here this weekend. We will be live all week. About hundred thousand people attend this event every year as well as about 350 authors are down here. Was founded by mr. Kaplan, founder of books and books as well. The big bookstore down here in south florida. Well, the cspan buses also year, and we are handing out but banks with our partners comcast here in the miami area. If you happen to be in the area, come on down. We are at Miamidade College the north side of downtown miami for the Miami Book Fair. In just a minute the panel in chapman all here at Miamidade College will begin will be beginning. Dave barry in the onion editors, humor columnist solve them. There will be introduced by brad meltzer who will be moderating the panel. The novelist will be joining us later. Ms. Kaplan will also be speaking, the founder of the Miami Book Fair, introducing and opening the weekend coverage. In just a minute well take you now to chapman all. Its rather full. We will be beginning or c