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Originally Posted by Stuart C
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interestingly thereg mentions it today
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/02/ntl_broadband/
but what gets me is the link i most have missed before relating to the Virgin takeover.
how does Jame's view and insight into the NTL tech and managment mindset, in post 133
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"The idea of people having fast P2P connectivity won't appeal to ntl as they like most other providers of their type want to be a bit more than just a dumb pipe bandwidth supplier, they like some element of control over what is going through their bandwidth.
In ntl's case if people all start doing P2P trading of tv shows it means potentially less TV revenue, and P2P VoIP means less telephony revenue, so there really is no incentive there. "
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and the Virgin's "keep punters happy" approach, find common ground were with the paying users unheeded need/wants (even if many dont realise they do yet) in the near future such as that BBC multicasting H264 SD content above we cant currently use but others can.
also see
http://www.surfnet.nl/info/en/artike...tnumber=100815 and notice how the total lack of british companys or Universitys in that list, and that was uncompressed HD content....
it would be great if NTL could inovate and come upto, or at least aproach surfnets level if not partner with them so help bring the UK upto scratch or better, but no real hope of that, even with Branson as a major
shareholder today apparently (at least so far).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04..._ntl_customer/
Admin Edit (Stuart): Please don't post the whole article. The link is fine.