grum1978 said
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So i take it you think that AOL have wasted £83 million that they gave to ntl for the 4 year deal?
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I know that was aimed elsewhere, but for what it's worth....
"I think so"
I just can't see that many customers signing up for it, surely any AOL customer with no ADSL but with ntl available in their area would allready be signed up.
I can see them gaining people who didn't like ntl and did not realise it was via ntl's network. I guess there are people like that out there.
I also guess that ntl people will say "Our marketing people have done all the figures" but my answer would be "remember how good the figures were for free dial-up"
ntl's marketing people based their figures on large numbers of
new off-net customers when they launched that product, instead they gained loads of on-net customers and had to install lots of second lines, that they were offering cheaply.
On top of this they had to carry out massive upgrades to the Telco network at local ring level to keep up with demand. The network techs were rubbing their hands at all the night work involved in the project.
ntl actually lost huge amounts of money on that venture
th'engineer said
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or the local power company offering powerline.
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We are going to fall out
