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etccarmageddon · 20-01-2005, 08:38

I know someone who works at NTL in the R and D department - this whole Centrica deal depends on whether the companies can fit together so they're working on GAS powered cable modems. There are at least a dozen Centrica employees there right now working with NTL.

At the moment they're having serious problems with the trial due to fluctuations in broadband speeds where customers have living flame gas fires which draw too much supply away from the modem. I have it on authority that if these problems arent sorted soon then the Centrica deal is dead in the water. If everything goes to plan though, there will be a national role out of GPB (gas powered broadband) even in non cable areas meaning direct competition with BT nationally.

20-01-2005, 08:38	#5
etccarmageddon Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Manchester Posts: 5,638	Re: centrica feedback concerning NTL I know someone who works at NTL in the R and D department - this whole Centrica deal depends on whether the companies can fit together so they're working on GAS powered cable modems. There are at least a dozen Centrica employees there right now working with NTL. At the moment they're having serious problems with the trial due to fluctuations in broadband speeds where customers have living flame gas fires which draw too much supply away from the modem. I have it on authority that if these problems arent sorted soon then the Centrica deal is dead in the water. If everything goes to plan though, there will be a national role out of GPB (gas powered broadband) even in non cable areas meaning direct competition with BT nationally.