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Originally Posted by Pierre
Sweeping generalisation, you haven't worked for ntl for years so how could you know. I know you'll refer to your "sources" but a few engineers in South Wales is not the whole of ntl 
The technology of the old cablelink in Dublin, as you know is outdated and probably more trouble than it's worth.
Has it not occured to you that perhaps ntl would rather just not bother spending money trying to find a solution? It's probably cheaper and easier to just write it off.
I'm sure if the revenue from those 2,000 customers was vitally important they would look for solution. My assessment would be that it not finiancially viable to first identify the problem, come up with a solution and then implement.
Maybe your "tin-pot" firm might have come with a solution, but then again your tin-pot firm might have been dependant on the revenue. |
I think you have answered most of my questions yourself, ntl obviously deem these customers more trouble than they are worth and after all ntl have profit coming out of their ears.
As for a few engineers in Wales, I dont think thats a fair comment. I was working as part of a national team based in Wales, and after that worked for a company commisioning a network management system across all of ntl/cwc networks. Many of the c**k-ups by corporate engineers were well known, including many recent ones by some well paid corporate engineers such as the shambles of levels on the network caused by so-called experienced engineers who made decisions without the basic skills required to do the job. I was being told about one shambles and stopped the person mid sentence because I guessed straight away what a silly c**k-up they had made.
One very senior engineering guy recently agrued with another engineer about modulated/un-modulated QPSK having different levels, I laughed and fell off my chair. I then conducted some tests with un-modulated, Modulted, with FEC, with Scrambling at different baud rates with some satellite uplink equipment. I provided the results to make this guy look the idiot he is.
Still he gets about 50K a year as a very senior engineering manager, so I guess he's not such a mug is he. btw Telewest kicked him out because he was no good.
PS: This is the same senior engineering manager who asked how do you ping something a few years ago! he was told to open a DOS window, and he said "How do I do that".........only in ntl
