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gunfleet · 10-10-2006, 06:55

Some interesting background information there. I do remember the original Videotron it was around 1992-3 and had the famous Mosaic channel, many of the channel numbers have not changed here since, with The Box on Ch.02 and Sky on Ch.11. There was a greater choice back then with Sky Movies, Sky Gold, TV5 (french), Zee TV and MBC. I do remember prior to the cable franchises when BT offered to provide a fibre network to all homes in the UK providing they kept their monopoly, Thatcher turned them down in favour of more competition. Ironic that after all these years we are effectively back to one provider.

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gunfleet Inactive Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: London Services: DTT, NTL Analogue, BT Broadband Posts: 25	Re: Analogue TV Some interesting background information there. I do remember the original Videotron it was around 1992-3 and had the famous Mosaic channel, many of the channel numbers have not changed here since, with The Box on Ch.02 and Sky on Ch.11. There was a greater choice back then with Sky Movies, Sky Gold, TV5 (french), Zee TV and MBC. I do remember prior to the cable franchises when BT offered to provide a fibre network to all homes in the UK providing they kept their monopoly, Thatcher turned them down in favour of more competition. Ironic that after all these years we are effectively back to one provider.