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Originally Posted by Halcyon
As for the merger, I see it as a good thing. As long as prices dont go up, telewest could offer NTL some much needed money to upgrade a lot of the network.
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I doubt that will happen. Mainly because Telewest is a fraction of the size of NTL, so therefore any money they can bring to the merger would probably be not nearly enough. AFAIK the only reason they had enough money to upgrade is that they have decided not to upgrade speeds accross the whole of their areas (for instance, NTL spent millions so all their broadband areas could have the increased speeds, apparently, Telewest can not offer any speed increases in some areas).
Also, they have just restructured, so may not have an awful lot of money to use anyway.
TBH, I think what will happen is what Pierre said Merge both companies then reduce staff levels by a third..