ntl and Telewest were both chasing after Cable and Wireless Consumer Co in a huge way, it was the 2nd biggest cable operator at the time and both offered 10 figure sums for them. They were in less debt than either ntl or Telewest.
Dealing with a few earlier points, ntl said that they would upgrade analogue areas where it was financially viable, some areas are or have been switched off as they are not economically viable.
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No, they have a fibre infrastructure from the head end all the way to the cabinet and then it's coax from there which means there is no signal degrading, which may i add again cable paid for themselves. BT however have a mostly copper network which the uk tax payer paid for and now want to add a little fibre to it at the end from the cab to the customers home. Big difference! It's still a network paid for by the public! Why can't you grasp that?
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Erm so BT are going to be running copper to cabinets then fibre from there? No. BT will be installing Fibre from exchange to cabinet mounted DSLAMs or all the way to customers. They will be replacing everything bar that last 400m. Also it's a network built by the public and sold to shareholders! Why can't you grasp that BT's sale was just that and they weren't gifted said network, or that BT have spent more on getting that network in order than the entire cost of VM's network with change? The ATM network, most of the national fibre network, the IP network, even the digital voice switching network were all installed
post privatisation. BT are spending £3 billion a year on 21CN, but that's nothing right as they will be using 400m of copper the government
sold to the private sector which will connect to BT PLC purchased DSLAMs, then BT PLC purchased fibre to a BT PLC purchased router and onto the BT PLC purchased IP backbone running with BT PLC purchased routers and switches connected by BT PLC laid transmission network.
I could waste my time taking your opinions which you pass off as facts apart tvtimes but really no point. If they are facts in your world they'll remain so
Oh actually one quick thing about analogue overbuilding. Look how much Virgin spend on advertising. The entire ntl Ex-Videotron London analogue to digital upgrade cost sub-50 million. Is it really that bank breaking? Answer is no but Virgin Media spend a terribly low amount on network overbuild compared with other cablecos.