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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon
if ntl are larger than TW then they will have a proportionally larger work force and resources.
you could argue that TW are a smaller company and therefore have less rescources!
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Doesn't always work like that.. They still have to secure supplies (like STBs, Modems etc). If they go to Samsung with an order for (say) 10,000 STBs, it's going to take Samsung a few months to produce that many.
Also, bear in mind that Telewest only have a few different networks, NTL have many more. Because of this, any testing being done has to be done more carefully, and will take longer.
And, if Ignition is correct, Telewest are running on hardware that is quite old compared to that installed by NTL, so they have done a lot of the testing before and have no need to repeat it.
It's a bit like a situation we have where I work. Including all the testing, it takes me a good couple of weeks to install new bit of software at work. At home, it takes me a few minutes. But, at work, I have to check it on all sorts of different PCs and under all sorts of conditions as, if it works, we will roll out it to around 500 PCs.