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Originally Posted by AtW
Its amazing to see how much you guys are interested in what will be the new name of the company -- why care? What matters is whether there will be traffic caps imposed on existing or new Telewest customers. Now _THAT_ is important.
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You'd be surprised by how important names are.
I remember in the dim & distant past (end of the 80s I think) my Travelcard got me unlimited travel within London on buses and tubes. There was also a Capitalcard which was just like a Travelcard only you got unlimited travel on trains too - great for South Londoners, as there are only a handful of tube stations south of the river. But of course us sophisticated North Londoners with easy access to tubes didn't want to shell out the extra for a Capitalcard.
Then there was a horrible rumour - they were planning on getting rid of the Travelcard
. Much dinner party chattering about how awful it was that we should be expected to pay extra for the benefit of those feckless Southies who didn't have the decency to live in Hampstead - or at worst, Kilburn.
Luckily, they never got rid of the Travelcard - they dumped the Capitalcard instead. And as a bonus, they improved the Travelcard so that you could also now get unlimited travel on trains as well. How delighted we were, and we didn't mind paying a bit more than the old Travelcard had costs before, because look - we got to use those nice shiny new Thameslink trains .....
