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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
What l am saying is that if Virgin take over a cable network, you don't expect several years later some areas of that network still under the same old system ie l was with TW, and yet other old networks are still waiting to change over to the VM way of things do you.
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Are you aware how much it costs to upgrade a cable network?
They haven't had any need to get every network they took over running on the same equipment and giving the same services before, the differences in them were small enough that it wasn't a huge issue.
If they had of done they'd have had to spend money to get them in line, and would now be spending even more money to upgrade them to the next gen platform.
They looked at it from a business point of view, where supporting several different networks makes far more sense than unification when you know that you're going to be rolling out a next gen platform not that far in the future.