The shrinking Liberty Global empire has been a hive of activity in recent weeks. While Faultline was taking a brief summer break, the cable giant slipped in a $7.4 billion takeover offer for Swiss service provider Sunrise, flipping last year’s debacle entirely on its head after Sunrise’s repeat attempts to buy UPC Switzerland were blocked by German telco Freenet, Sunrise’s dogged majority shareholder. It caught many industry observers off guard, except here at Faultline, where we predicted this entire series of events back in October 2019, when the Mexican standoff between Liberty Global, Sunrise and Freenet reached a tipping point. We should quit while we’re ahead, but that isn’t in Faultline’s nature, so our next prediction is that Liberty Global…