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Originally Posted by orangebird
Too late for what??? This isn't aimed at you Neil (  ), but I'm getting a little sick of members on this board that think they know what ntl are or aren't doing, think they know what money ntl does or doesn't have to spare, think they know where ntls priorities should lie if the money is indeed there, think they know that ntl is going down the pan despite net customer figures and revenue going UP every quarter, think they know how to run a multi-billion international company and spare no hot air in telling us all how they'd do it better/easier/more profitably etc.....  
For craps sake - from what I see on this board, members are either small time 'own bosses', champions of pointless causes (CAP anyone?), stressed, depressed or unemployed. Noe of which IMO would get any of you a job consulting on how to run a company like ntl. Give over and get your own houses in order. Or got to ADSL/SKY/BT/THE MOON.  |
Ouch
where did that come from, this was not really an NTL bashing thread up until this point, well not to the extent of some I have seen. It's Friday afternoon, I'll rise to the bait. Any large company is going to have different customer groups and internal groups clamouring for funds / investment, development in the product that benefits them most, just look here, what development should NTL choose. 3Mb BB, BB rollout across the cable network, DTV across the network, enhanced Interactive TV, Nationwide Caller display.
This original thread was about cashflow difficulties and bill paying not about how NTL was run, as a company, it's quite easy for NTL to get revenues up quarter by quarter if that is all they need to do, cut back on maintainance, job replacement and all other costs, increase prices and watch those results come in on target. Long term an appauling stratagy as customers will get hacked off paying high prices for poor performance and move, but such are the products that NTL sell, this will not happen overnight. Again, to get customer numbers up run popular introductory offers, free periods, bundles for 12 months, the customer number goes up but ARPU remains static / falls.
Is running NTL different from running a small business, yes it's much easier, you can afford teams of investment bankers to deal with your funding, a large HR function to make sure you are not breaking any employment laws, a legal team to deal with contracts, staff who can focus on each specific area of the business, not one day be packing and shipping and the next day credit control, the next day marketing.
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Originally Posted by gary_580
Define "NORMAL"
We built a link to equifax and in return one of the items we get back is gross salary
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Well actually last declared salary on an application form that has been provided by a user of the system to the main DB, but you are correct.