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Originally Posted by BBKing
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.
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Not only was there the problems you saw BBKing, but ntl used to have a fair amount of business customers off-net. It used to be a nightmare for the business telco boys when a customer who was about 3 hours drive away in north wales had problems with service. I remember on one occassion the fault was easily traced to a BT network fault, but without the ntl boys attending BT would not roll on the fault until an ntl engineer had physically visited the site to confirm the ntl supplied equipment was not at fault.
I guess that will be a more widespread problem as companies use oneanothers networks, someone is always looking to pass the buck, you know what it's like between departments never mind different companies.
That sort of thing I believe happened with the universities and local Authorities that ntl serviced off-net in wales, its not a problem now they have lost all those contracts though!