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Originally Posted by techguy
That cost was when cable tv was in it's infancy in the UK.
The costs are now quite different.. and set to be even more so.. once Ofcom mandate the use of BT ducts and poles, and the electricity and water companies ducts and street furniture.
For instance, MK had a quote done by VM for a total upgrade to the BT Cable network for about a 1 million pounds.. which included the costs of a replacement digital headend, fibre resegmentation (bringing it closer to the home) and replacing any dodgy BT coax.
In 2001 .. NTL's quote stood at £30M - not sure how that was worked out .. but you can be sure .. the same incompetence is probably beavering away in there somewhere.
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BT own the network, that's where the problem is.