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Originally Posted by cheekyangus
Given the debt piles all the UK Cable companies created digged up the pavements I think it was partly trying to spend as little as possible in order to reduce the debt. So they kept them going until they keeled over.
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That wasn't really a factor. Most of the debt was written off very many years ago (2002-ish). Pace were still supplying new boxes up to 2004.
There just isn't any point in replacing boxes that are still able to provide all the services required of them.
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
Those would have been Samsung SD only boxes.
I'm pretty sure the Pace SD boxes all went years ago.
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A few Pace boxes were in use until last October. The batteries in them were designed to last 5 years, but some actually lasted almost 20.