That's not true I'm afraid not every cabinet has UPS.
Network is running pretty smoothly as a whole though.
Someone said it to me a while ago, Telewest have always been engineering focussed whereas ntl are and have been focussed towards financial gain.
Perversely Telewest outperform ntl financially.... go figure. Possibly speculation means accumulation?
I would fully expect the merger to go the same way as the Cable and Wireless takeover with loads of empire building, jobs for the old boys, regardless of the most efficient way to do it it'll be those managers who can play the politics game best that'll get their way. Probably mean that ntl will win this one, their managers have far more practice, one wonders if more time looking after customer interests and less time guarding their little patch and looking after their friends would have made this a bit different.
EDIT: Not to say all managers are like this in the company! There are some that are focussed more towards the customer than covering their own @rse.
Anyone know who ntl's Chief Technical Officer is, if there is one? I would very much expect to see one in a company of this size.