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It will continue to deliver television services, high speed internet and telephony to the homes passed by its digital cable systems, but it will not build out any more infrastructure using that technology. The company says that it is too expensive.
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Well it's not exactly a secret is it. ntl's main main build program essentially stopped in 2000.
ntl will expand where it is economically viable to do so. Usually now only for very large business customers.
Most of ntls build over the last four years has been for Orange, H3G, BT.
They have a large enough footprint with what they have, and that will be increased when they merge with Telewest in 2005/2006.
Therefore if they are not physicallt constructing the only way to expand their network and customer base is through BTs local loop which is what they are doing.
They are however spending a lot of money in London and Dublin upgrading the network there.