ntl reports fourth quarter 2005 results
 

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Telewest did better this quarter, quite scary how close Telewest's revenue is compared to ntl's considering how much bigger ntl's coverage area is!

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Still no bonus for the staff this year!:Yikes:

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:mad: Did Telewest get there bonus i wonder:mad:

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From what i have been told Yes they did

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I wonder if there is lack of investment in the necessary infrastructure to make 10meg work properly and this is why people are often moaning of poor speeds and this lack of investment is due to the losses they are making?

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Also no more Harmony, NTL moving over to what Telewest use

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Really?

Where's that published?

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Great news if its true. I've never used a more useless system than Harmony. Considering the amount of money they wasted on it the sooner they cut their losses the better.

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Harmony was created to replace ALL legacy billing systems, Cable master, Itc, ICMS, SMS etc and any old legacy billing system. (this would now also include Telewest billing system I would have thought which is a souped up version of ICMS) I would say that it is very unlikely to go to the Telewest billing system as NTL would have to pay a large licence fee to use system telewest use, where as Harmony is paid for outright. (apart for system support for it)

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Its mentioned on the webcast at around 1hr 20 mins that ntl will be moving to ICOMS within the next 15 mins

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15 minutes? :Yikes: :angel:

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Instead of taking three years to complete, they want it sorted within 14-15 months.

Some other bits of information that were of interest to me (and hopefully others):

• They expect to have their branding wrapped up within 3 months
• On the NTL side of things they hope to launch their DVR in the 2nd half of this year
• They are very interested in Premiership rights and movie content as well
• They are looking at offering more talk plans including an unlimited international plan
• They also hope to increase the number of bundles available to appeal to as many of their customers as possible

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Could this be that telewest have a high % of customers on higher priced products?

It is harder to sell a fast speed with a cap on it.

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...and the stockholders of both NTL and Telewest have voted overwhelmingly for a combination of the two companies. They will be listed on the NY Stock Exchange as NTL Incorporated.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060302/20060302005746.html?.v=1

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Thats made my life! :tu:

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Some mistake surely ntl won't have spent that amount of cash on Harmony, especially when one of the intentions of it was to integrate the Telewest CRM / billing, to drop it at first opportunity.

Saying that though this is ntl...

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I hope they do drop it! Bring back cablemaster......

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I can see NTL going bang again, they are spending money they haven't got.

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The fact of the matter is NTL have done a buy out of Telewest. The email POP servers have even changed to pop.ntl.com instead of pop3.blueyonder.co.uk. Ron Moody the previous chairman of NTL is now the new chairman of NTL/West. All the Telewest directors and CEOs have left and taken a big buyout sum with them. One of them used to be the owner of the San Diego Chargers so Telewest was just pocket change to him.

At the end of the day though you guys, the customers, are the most important fact to keep any blood sucking corparation like those 2 afloat. So I really hope the level of service you recieve is second to none. The sad thing though is for the employees because, from experience , I know that Telewest does not give a crap about them, they will suffer :(

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One thing I can see happening fast that should be easy for them to do is reenforcing proxies on the telwest network.

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UPC will be hunting after the company, possibly Comcast or TimeWarner cable but I'd say UPC would be the clear favourite at the moment.