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having one dealing with the infrastructure, the others dealing with the provision of the services.
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Got lost in the merging of threads. Anyway, much as I like erolz, that was the model adopted by Railtrack and the train operating companies, and how wonderfully successful it was. We also had it for a couple of years after the CWC/ntl merger where C&W still provided some connectivity, and it was a pain in the butt dealing with them.
As Pierre says, ntl are investing a fair bit of wedge in the famous London rubbish cable, so it's not totally true to say they've given up on cable. There's also a lot of money going into capacity on cable systems and new hardware, so it's simplistic to say they've given up. It's probably fair to say that you won't see much digging up of streets to put new cable down, that's prohibitively expensive these days.