Silence breaker - for those who worship Telewest so vehemently and seem to think they could do such a better job, they are literally only in the past few weeks upgrading bits of Birmingham, street by street, that had no return path previously.
Would anyone have done a better job than ntl have given the circumstances?
Isn't this topic just the most boring, in between people who want absolute facts and wont accept anything anyone says unless signed by the entire executive board in blood, and those who swear blind that nothing is being done (it is - specifics I can't give, people would only get peeved if they were told their postcode were being done and it took longer than though due to local cable being so poor). It's in progress and as soon as areas are confirmed active it'll be announced
Yes it's taken a very long time, but Videotron areas can and are being upgraded, Southampton being an example. It's not cheap, and it takes a while to get a return on such heavy investment. In places it's cost as much as it would have cost to build from scratch.
Considering how alledgedly troubled ntl are financially doesn't it say something that they are investing such a degree of engineering time and money in achieving this. It's a long, slow, painstaking process, and has taken too long. It
IS happening though.