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Originally posted by hawkmoon
So you think it is "not economically viable" for NTL to offer BB in the capital of the UK. The ex-videotron areas account for around 1 million homes - although not all of these would have taken cable. This is still a very large potential market.
BT take the opposite view and that is why the London exchanges are pretty much the first to be upgraded.
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Depends how much work the network needs, and how much it would cost to fix it.
Videotron did use cheap cable and cheap installers (see posts by BBKing and Escapee on .com for that info), and the quality of the network has degraded by all accounts. In some areas, it is not capable of carrying broadband data because the return path is not strong enough.
Anyway, aren't NTL currently upgrading the old Videotron areas? That is a rumour, but in the absence of any official comment, it is all we have.