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Originally Posted by themelon
I would doubt a funding issue as apparently the cost of the upgrades is being funded by On Demand and a consortium of other companies including Seachange internation, in return for a fair whack of the profits.
The only issue I would expect is there not being enough qualified to carry out the work. We shall have to see.
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Yes I agree about the funding, I previously posted months ago that they were upgrading equipment in hubsites that should of been done years ago. They were adding this to the cost of the VOD project, much of it was not necessary for VOD but they were getting long needed upgardes for free by adding it to the vendors bill.
Yes, I think technical staff will be a problem. Most of the work will be carried out by the platform/headend guys, but these are also few in numbers these days although they seem to of missed this latest round of redundancies, I know there were stealth redundancies in this small department last year. I think they (dont quote me) may have one on notice still in Wales, so those redundancies are still quite recent.
(It was mentioned to me last week when being told about this weeks redundancies about one of the platform guys redundant and applying for jobs, I got the impression he was still there, but perhaps he has recently left)
The VOD project would of still relied on the Network Tech's heavily for support, but I guess those at the top who are not familiar with things are thinking the network is running so why do we need them for the project.
I think things are much worse now because there is even less high level technical support in the company these days, support was already lacking when they launched digital TV and cable modems, due to good corporate engineers who had got up and left. I think the situation is worse now, if everything goes without a hitch they have gambled and won. I believe if there are big problems though they have taken a gamble and could be paying the price.
Personally if I was in managements position making the decisions and being very mercenary about getting rid of engineers, I would of waited until after VOD was launched in a couple of areas successfully. To be hones I dont think they have that breathing space because it would get them too far in financial trouble.
As I have said many times before, I wonder what answer they will come up with when their figures dont add up and there are no employees left to make redundant.
