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Originally Posted by Ignition
The 24Mbps is as far as I was aware solely being tested for HDTV on demand puposes, not as an internet connection for residential customers.
It'd make the HFC / CMTS network redundant which is commercially stupid considering there are over 500 CMTSes along with their supporting structure out there, muchos moolah invested.
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Current infrastructure and the cost of providing it is of no significance. Technological advancement comes along by replacing out of date methods by new state of the art methods. What has to be considered is the cost of implementing new methods of supplying services, timescale involved, ease of changeover, commercial advantage gained and amortisation period.
What is best to own, $billion of out of date infrastructure that no one wants to use because they can get better services elsewhere at lower cost or $billion of state of the art infrastructure that provides a significantly better and cheaper service than any of its competitors? I'm not saying that current NTL infrastructure is out of date or that nobody wants it but I am sure you get the drift of what I am saying. There will come a time when NTL has to reassess how it provides its services and and write off a lot of the current infrastructure. Available finance is the key to when that will be.