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Originally posted by KingPhoenix
I understand NTL's network is alot bigger, but why dedicate all of their resources to getting 1 half of the network going on etv, rather than spending those resources finding a way to get the entire network running at its fullest potential..... If customers didnt have those services, would it make a difference? if they didnt even know NTL were working on them? then that way they could of enabled etv on the system properly rather than a 'BODGE JOB' and having an entire network of happy customers! EVen if it came 6 - 12 months later......
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NTL are developing CR3 (or equivalent) for the Langley platform. They say it should be available late in the year (Q3). I thought they were currently testing it (have been for a while now).
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NTL must have known about the C&W network as soon as they bought it, why didnt they start plans then to intergrate it into there own bromley platform? Oh yeah... cos they didnt give a **** then did they, and now they do and are f**ked because they didnt think about it earlier.
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The Bromley platform IS the C&W network. I live in Bromley (about 2-3 miles from the Head End), and the network was built by Nynex, then bought by C&W, then NTL.
NTL are upgrading the original areas to the same spec as the Bromley network as the Bromley network is more advanced.
It's actually a very expensive operation to do this. Not only do they need to upgrade the equipment at the head ends (& there are quite a few), but they need to stockpile 100's of STBs as a certain percentage will fail in the upgrade (I think somebody on .com said 10-15% of boxes fail during software upgrades). NTL have hundreds of thousands of boxes installed in orig. NTL areas, so a 10% failure rate means a lot of boxes..
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So all those customers paying the same money as someone on the Bromley platform... what do they get as compensation? Why shouldnt they? at the end of the day if they lived somewhere else paying the same money they would recieve the etv service wouldnt they?
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That actually is a fair comment, although I am sure that NTL would argue that you don't pay for e-TV directly.