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Originally Posted by PaulH225
I live in a second floor flat and all the flats (even the high rises) in our area have cable. However, NTL had a contract with Southampton City Council to supply the 5 terrestrial channels to all blocks of council flats in Southampton. Presumably this was because the council didn't want to maintain TV aerials and all that malarky but it has the handy side effect of all the flats being cabled.
I know this doesn't help you in your situation, it may simply be a health and safety or height issue and the installers don't have long enough ladders.
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The days when Cabletel/NTL/Virgin Media/<insert next brand here> actually went out of its way to innovate and find ways of connecting as many customers as possible are long past.
Blocks of flats should be an obvious target for them, as there are often rules about the use of sat dishes (i.e. many landlords disallow them). Cable is the natural fit in these cases but sadly nobody at VM is doing any joined up thinking. I'm amazed how easy this company finds excuses
not to sell its services to people who are queueing up to give them their money.
Meanwhile Sky, love them or loathe them, have actually engaged in a little creative thinking and have developed a scheme whereby flats can be set up with a shared dish. Following an initial expression of interest from a group of potential new subscribers, Sky will even take on the admin and contact everyone else in the block to see how many people they can connect up.
I'd love to think that in the long run, VM could emerge as a counterbalancing, competitive force to challenge Sky, but right now I can't bring myself to believe it. Some kind of seige mentality exists at the top of VM, the drawbridge is up and they won't raise their heads above the parapet unless its a guaranteed, no hassle, quick sale.
More fool them.