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Originally Posted by LostintheNW
<snipped bits i've not commented on>If I could go with any other cable company I would, Telewest managed to upgrade their network in a short period of time...NTL announced this 6 months or so ago and its still going on...Telewest announce it and bam within 2 weeks every area is upgraded.
Bring on the day this shambles known as NTL ends up being bought out by a company that can actually run a proper service and listen to what their customers have to say instead of pretending to and then doing nothing about it.
Just amazes me how our cable system is actually meant to be better than the one in the USA yet they can have their speeds up left right and centre no hassle, while us poor sods here can't even have that done without no end of trouble.
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It may well be the case that TW planned their upgrade for 6 months before the announcement, then bam, swiched, at the time of the announcement it was considered on here that NTL were caught on the hop by TW and had to take an us too response and then put together a team to make that happen.
NTL is unlily to be bought out, the best that will happen is a merger of NTL and TW, but that is sometime off.
Our cable infrastructure may well be newer, but that does not always mean better. As the cable infrastructure never managed to steal a lead on sat in the UK it has has an enourmous capital investment with very little return to investors, cable managed to become the dominant infrastructure in the US, as such made a return that has enabled more investment, thus, more UBRs and higher speeds, but they certainly pay for this. My Mother in Law's Time Warner Cable is $45 a month (for 3Meg), but she would love to be able to pay less for a lower speed, not an option though. Oh she also has to pay $50 for install, no free install there.
So they have many customers paying lots of cash, and have a basic infrastructure that has been in place years and largely paid for and can afford to use the BB revenue to invest in the service, not pay for the basic capital debt of infrastrucure build.