Mike Fries may be totting up swingeing job cuts, a £22bn debt pile and the loss of hundreds of thousands of customers, but he appears to be putting a brave face on the situation.(迈克·弗里斯或许正在盘算着大幅裁员、220亿英镑的债务以及数十万客户的流失，但他似乎对此强作镇定。) “In our minds, anyway, this is not a crisis,” the boss of the co-owner of Virgin Media O2 said this week.
迈克·弗里斯或许正在盘算着大幅裁员、220亿英镑的债务以及数十万客户的流失，但他似乎对此强作镇定。“不管怎样，在我们看来，这不算危机，”这位Virgin Media O2共同所有者的老板本周表示。
The UK telecoms(电信) company, which offers broadband, TV, landline(固定电话) and mobile services, had just announced £800m in cost savings, including potentially cutting up to a quarter of staff. Fries, the chief executive of Liberty Global, faced searching questions on its future and a potential refinancing of its huge debt pile next year.(Liberty Global首席执行官弗里斯面临关于公司未来以及明年可能对其巨额债务进行再融资的尖锐质询。) “We made it clear, we have nothing to add to where we sit today,” he said.
这家提供宽带、电视、固话和移动服务的英国电信公司刚刚宣布了8亿英镑的成本节约计划，其中可能包括裁减多达四分之一的员工。Liberty Global首席执行官弗里斯面临关于公司未来以及明年可能对其巨额债务进行再融资的尖锐质询。“我们已经明确表示，对于目前的状况，我们没有什么要补充的，”他说。
However, for the company’s 16,000 UK staff, the job cuts, and a raft of other measures including abandoning investing in upgrading its cable network to full fibre, are symptomatic of a business if not in crisis, then under extreme pressure.(然而，对该公司1.6万名英国员工来说，裁员以及包括放弃投资将电缆网络升级为全光纤在内的一系列其他措施，都表明这家企业即使不算陷入危机，也正承受着极大压力。) And it has left industry watchers wondering: what has gone wrong at Virgin Media O2?
然而，对该公司1.6万名英国员工来说，裁员以及包括放弃投资将电缆网络升级为全光纤在内的一系列其他措施，都表明这家企业即使不算陷入危机，也正承受着极大压力。这让行业观察人士不禁想问：Virgin Media O2到底出了什么问题？