Chris

They are going to have to look seriously at anything and everything that can make it easier and cheaper for them to get their services into people's homes.

I was reading a thread on here the other day by someone who moved home, tried to order cable (as there was, apparently, a full Telewest branded installation down his entire street), but couldn't because that street was never connected to the main network and is now 'abandoned' with no plans to commence service there due to cost. No sooner had this individual posted all this here at CF, than he got a mail shot from BT to let him know Infinity was due to be installed.

If Virgin Media sits still for very much longer it is going to find its incumbency is worth very little and there will be fewer and fewer places where it retains the ability to claim that it alone can offer super-fast broadband.

If it is still so saddled with debt that it has no choice but to sit back and watch BT march in and connect customers, even in streets where the CATV ducting and cabs are already in place, then it is going to have to look at cost-cutting delivery methods like this. If it doesn't, you can bet BT will. BT Vision isn't always going to be the lightweight service it currently is. It won't be an awfully long time until it can serve more of the country than VM, and then what?