I have just listened to the webcast and I have picked out the following as interesting points:
- Some areas will never be upgraded to digital due to technical reasons
- London upgrades were taking place as we speak
- This time next year the network should be 96/97% digital
- The economics have never worked out in the past to force people off analogue
- Cheaper STB pricing and netwok economics will come to a point where forced migration will occur, most likely some point next year and into 07 - this will be at the cost of increased churn
- A PVR is planned for Q2 2006 and it WILL be HDTV ready
- They have an HDTV plan in place and that will be starting next year into 07
- Need a mobility option - looking at the service BT will offer combining a landline with a mobile perhaps through wi-fi technology - field trials are taking place with this
- A new range of packages will be launched to reward people (more savings) more, the more of the services they take - they will not be a time limit on these
- Loyalty will be rewarded which will be consistant across time and packages
- Trials of some of the new packages will take place in selected regions next month
- Longer standing customers will take advantage of the new packages as well as one-off freebies such as an engineer coming out to do a health check on your system and perhaps doings some free upgrades to your equipment - this is someway off and they were just boucning ideas off people in the audience of the conference
A presentation of this conference is available here:
http://www.ntl.com/locales/gb/en/inv...0-%20FINAL.pdf