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Originally Posted by SMHarman
That would be my strategy. But for 6-9 months you will see nothing as it will be planning phase. 9-18 months nothing but your bill might look different and behind the scenes you will be routed to different call centres etc. 18+ months strategic network changes.
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I think that this sort of timescale would make sense...
There is a lot of different technologies to merge together - not least the accounting systems and the backend servers (NTL and Telewest have different Server technology IIRC).
I would envisage an announcement in the near future, as I have friends in telewest who are openly discussing how some of this may be achieved (with the usual "if we were to merge..." caveat.
I think the actual network changes would start at approx 18-24 months and last for a good 24 months, as there are a lot of "green boxes" out there, and they would all need to have the same work done on them.
The Headend sites would logically be the first to be aligned, then they would need to rollout to the various local ditribution points, then on to the green boxes, then to the homes (assuming the cable at those extremeties would need modifying).
That said - I am probably completely wrong about everything
