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Originally Posted by JustAnotherN00b

Just for your information EBITDA = Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation, Amortisation. Take this off and the whole financial picture isn't so nice. It's easy to forget that ntl is still a company with a fairly unpleasant debt burden as it's come through a lot and the light is most definitely there at the end of the tunnel.

Thanks for that. I'll write it down in my diary. Saturday 21st Feb - ntl says that "high margin" = "low margin" then goes on to prove black is white and gets itself killed on the next zebra crossing (Sorry DA).

Of course you seem to think the financial health of the provider and the jobs of its' 14,000 staff don't affect you, so why should you care (to turn your argument about not caring about others back at you).

ntl's bottom line is crucial to the whole argument. The point is that now that they've done a debt for equity swap AND there may be more on the cards AND they've paid of some of the debt AND broadband is profitable, how can they justify squeezing the users? They cant gloat about profitability on the one hand and persecute high users on the other. It's supposed to be an umnmetered service with the low users balancing out the high users. If ntl think they can swap to a pay per byte model and get away with it, I suggest they try it.

Thanks for proving my points though, you missed ISPA Awards I'm afraid so the 2 of you won't be able to stand outside there with a banner or whatever fighting the good fight.

And who else missed out on the ISPAs this year? ntl weren't in the running cos they didn't meet the service level criteria. Sad but true.