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I would imagine if they do merge telewest will be swallowed up by ntl. they call the telewest region ntl: telewest for a while then they'll drop the telewest moiker altogether.

there will probably be a gradual alignent of services. if there is call for 3 meg service for ntl customer then I am sure they will do it. I would imagine it won't be for a while yet though as there has been little uptake of ntl's 1meg service