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Originally Posted by tweedle
Virginmedia didn't build any networks, TELEWEST and NTL did (an some other cable co's)NTL then bought out TELEWEST and rebranded as VM. They also spent over £6billion between them building it, far over budget due to poor contractors and bad planning.
An I feel sorry for you if you genuinely believe £8billion would create the current BT/OR network from scratch.
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Not quite accurate - on paper Telewst acquired NTL to avoid problems with the BBC Worldwide joint venture UKTV.
If I could be bothered to research (an interesting pastime you should try sometime) I'd probably also find neither NTL or TW built much of the network themselves - rather they bought up smaller franchise's and consolidated.
Cheers
Grim