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Originally Posted by Scooby
dream on......lol... 
ntl has a far bigger customer base so i would of thought they will take control (as in Simon Duffy) but you will find some fo the telewest bigwigs stay as well  |
From experiences of the ntl - cwc merger it's not easy to generalise. I think certain areas/departments of ntl took control in their area, and the other way around for other areas of the business.
(Areas I mean tasks/departments not just geographical)
cwc people took control of certain functions with regards to headends and Hubsites, the opposite people originally from ntl were the ones made redundant in the cuts. I expect the same would happen again, it's not necessarily down to who is the best to take over a task during the ntl-cwc shake-up it was all down to who had the ba**s to push their head up and force the opposition out.
I was amazed how managers at regional and national level seemed to create their own jobs by forcefully taking over other peoples jobs. It really was a case of musical chairs and I expect the same will happen again.
Taking my old area of Wales as an example, in the last 4-5 years the regional boundries have changed as follows Celtic Region, Wales and the West, Wales and the Midland, Celtic Region, and now again I understand it is going back to Wales and the Midlands under the latest wave of restructures and redundancies currently taking place.
It was always rumoured that the "Wales and the Midlands" region was chosen to accomodate the rumoured ntl-telewest merger before chapter 11.
It made no sense from an ntl - cwc point of view, so perhaps they are working towards this again.
Whatever happens it's part of the ongoing 18 months changes and restructures that happen when things are not working, I was told last night " I never know who's going to be boss when I arrive for work tomorrow"
Stability is not something we can associate ntl with, and look out for less stability when the merger happens and things get combined to save costs.