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Originally Posted by telfordcable
I think virgin media should seperator two cables under the ground eg:
fibre optic cable A : TV service only
fibre optic cable B : Broadband service only
and I do believe these two seperator cables will be even better for their network and less congestion on many UBR speed issues problem lately because they only had a single fibre optic cable underground for both tv and broadband.
Remember the past with telewest (only broadband) there is no problem and never had any single UBR problem in uk until virgin media take over and then sell as both broadband tv services and look what happen now ?? too many problem with tv and broadband ongoing.
Do you think two seperator cables will fix the problem easy ?
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As noted above, the capacity of the cable is not the problem. It's the capacity of the hardware running it.
Also, Virgin have taken over nothing. NTL and Telewest merged, bought Virgin Mobile and licenced the Virgin name. It is, to a large extent, the old Telewest management who are running the company.
Also, as noted above, Telewest were not that good in investing in infrastructure. I have heard of several instances where customers complained about network problems only to be told that nothing would be done and they would be better off elsewhere.
The orginal construction of the cable network caused a LOT of disruption, so most local councils will be unlikely to allow it again.
Finally, bearing in mind that NTL went bankrupt owing £17 billion (which is mainly debt from the original cablecos building their networks) and had only cabled just over half the houses in the country, do you not think they would be better off building any new network in uncabled areas at the moment?