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Originally Posted by Kevin.Beaumont
Indeed. Both NTL and Telewest actually carry a significant amount of PSTN traffic (eg phone calls). If you ring one BT line from another BT line, your call may go through NTL/TW's equipment if BT's Exchanges are busy.
A lot of the truely 'critical' stuff, however, goes nowhere near NTL or TW. They wouldn't be touched with a barge poll (and rightly so).
Even 999 calls and management for NTL and TW is outsourced via Cable and Wireless.
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You'd be suprised what "critical" / "national" information is carried on the ntl network.
18months ago ntl won a contract for the US Dept of Defence.
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Originally Posted by injuneer
I think Broadcast or National Transcommunications Ltd as they are now to be called in the interim (Funny, don't those initials spell NTL?) are contracted to do maintenance for Ntl for 2 years as part of the sale agreement.
National Transcommunication LTD is what they were called when CableTel bought them in the late 90's.
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Broadcast is reverting to its original name of National Transcommunications Ltd, or "NATRANS" for short.
ntl will continue to be called ntl.