[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

I am against it because it cost money and I hate large companies,

No doubt you bank with your sweet shop, and drive a pony and trap, you obtain your gas and electric from a bloke up the road and do all your shopping at a country market and refuse to watch BBC and ITV

since the telewest merger their is already signs of things that occur at monopolistic companies

like what?

and who is to say the same wont happen with the virgin merger.

and who is to say it will, whatever it is you're talking about.

BT and Sky are not huge forces that need mergers to compete against,

Ha, BT the biggest monopoly there was, and even after the merger they're still much, much larger. Sky still control nearly all of the programming and fix the price accordingly.

[/quote] merging with virgin eg. does nothing to increase ntl's national coverage [/quote] Er I think you'll find it nearly doubles it.

but does create problems in that once again their will be staff changes restructuring and merging of systems the company is never settled down.

economies of scale to help save the money you hate them spending

Who is to say customers in the future that refuse to buy mobile services and not have quadrupled play will then be penalised for not having full takeup and as such pay more for it, like now if you dont have triple play.

Then that will be ntls mistake as there are plenty of other providers out there