[Horace]

The DSL market at the moment reminds me of the situation we had with the first unmetered dial-up startups. They promised everything for very little (or nothing in the case of x-stream) but often came up short when it came to actually delivering and that included established foreign companies coming into the UK. Wait till these companies are actually delivering what they promise with good service levels before you claim NTL is or will be uncompetetive. NTL can hardly be expected to compete with what someone "may" offer in the future, with the exception of BT of course.