centrica feedback concerning NTL

Chrysalis · 20-01-2005, 02:07

Hi, I would like to start this is not made up by me and if wrong or right would appreciate no personal abuse.

I spoke to my sister asking about the NTL situation with centrica, and she says she is 100% sure since its on her intranet at work, centrica also recently brought AA and goldfish companies both of them done in private. I asked her about NTL as it is a shareholder company and she said its possible they just brought shares and became a major shareholder but they defenitly do own at least part of it, future changes include a NTL name change expected within 6 months and will defenitly happen within a year. Centrica have already pumped in over 200 million into NTL as well. Me and my sister think either normal NTL staff havent been told or they have been told but told to not disclose anything to the public.

Take it or leave it.

20-01-2005, 08:06

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

Hi, I would like to start this is not made up by me and if wrong or right would appreciate no personal abuse.

I spoke to my sister asking about the NTL situation with centrica, and she says she is 100% sure since its on her intranet at work, centrica also recently brought AA and goldfish companies both of them done in private. I asked her about NTL as it is a shareholder company and she said its possible they just brought shares and became a major shareholder but they defenitly do own at least part of it, future changes include a NTL name change expected within 6 months and will defenitly happen within a year. Centrica have already pumped in over 200 million into NTL as well. Me and my sister think either normal NTL staff havent been told or they have been told but told to not disclose anything to the public.

Take it or leave it.

Well that is complete and utter toss, take it or leave it.

It would have been talked about in the press or on the stock websites but nothing.

My bet still stands as far as centica [british gas] goes for 6 months.

I will show my butt in the trafford centre if it turns out centrica own enough of ntl to.

1 Change the name
2 Have any say in the way ntl are run .

I will now leave it and wait to see if i have a cold butt in the next 6 months

Derek · 20-01-2005, 08:09

I'll leave it.

STONEISLAND · 20-01-2005, 08:37

I work for Centrica and can confirm this to be rubbish. I have not even so much as heard a rummer!!!!!

etccarmageddon · 20-01-2005, 08:38

I know someone who works at NTL in the R and D department - this whole Centrica deal depends on whether the companies can fit together so they're working on GAS powered cable modems. There are at least a dozen Centrica employees there right now working with NTL.

At the moment they're having serious problems with the trial due to fluctuations in broadband speeds where customers have living flame gas fires which draw too much supply away from the modem. I have it on authority that if these problems arent sorted soon then the Centrica deal is dead in the water. If everything goes to plan though, there will be a national role out of GPB (gas powered broadband) even in non cable areas meaning direct competition with BT nationally.

20-01-2005, 08:39

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Originally Posted by skunk4u

I work for Centrica and can confirm this to be rubbish. I have not even so much as heard a rummer!!!!!

Exactly

Have said it before and i will say it again this is Bovine Excreta

20-01-2005, 08:57

Centrica do have a relationship with McQuairy (sp?) who are involved in the purchase of Broadcast. Or it could be that NTL is an acronym for oNeTeL.

STONEISLAND · 20-01-2005, 08:59

20 January 2005

Help

Just to prove i have Internet with Centrica.

I have serched and serched and found nothing

Toto · 20-01-2005, 09:19

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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

I know someone who works at NTL in the R and D department - this whole Centrica deal depends on whether the companies can fit together so they're working on GAS powered cable modems. There are at least a dozen Centrica employees there right now working with NTL.

At the moment they're having serious problems with the trial due to fluctuations in broadband speeds where customers have living flame gas fires which draw too much supply away from the modem. I have it on authority that if these problems arent sorted soon then the Centrica deal is dead in the water. If everything goes to plan though, there will be a national role out of GPB (gas powered broadband) even in non cable areas meaning direct competition with BT nationally.

LOL, nearly threw up my shreddies all over my screen.

Well done, just the tonic I needed this morning

etccarmageddon · 20-01-2005, 09:23

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Originally Posted by Bill C

Bovine Excreta

Is an amagram of:-

Evob Ex Centria

which is probably a coded message to centrica staff or perhaps will be the name of the NTL and Centrica merged company?

20-01-2005, 09:37

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

Hi, I would like to start this is not made up by me and if wrong or right would appreciate no personal abuse.

I spoke to my sister asking about the NTL situation with centrica, and she says she is 100% sure since its on her intranet at work, centrica also recently brought AA and goldfish companies both of them done in private. I asked her about NTL as it is a shareholder company and she said its possible they just brought shares and became a major shareholder but they defenitly do own at least part of it, future changes include a NTL name change expected within 6 months and will defenitly happen within a year. Centrica have already pumped in over 200 million into NTL as well. Me and my sister think either normal NTL staff havent been told or they have been told but told to not disclose anything to the public.

Take it or leave it.

errrmmmm ever heard of the stock market? This sort of thing has to be disclosed to the market before it can be disclosed to employees.

Is English your first language

Pierre · 20-01-2005, 09:55

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

Hi, I would like to start this is not made up by me and if wrong or right would appreciate no personal abuse.

I spoke to my sister asking about the NTL situation with centrica, and she says she is 100% sure since its on her intranet at work, centrica also recently brought AA and goldfish companies both of them done in private. I asked her about NTL as it is a shareholder company and she said its possible they just brought shares and became a major shareholder but they defenitly do own at least part of it, future changes include a NTL name change expected within 6 months and will defenitly happen within a year. Centrica have already pumped in over 200 million into NTL as well. Me and my sister think either normal NTL staff havent been told or they have been told but told to not disclose anything to the public.

Take it or leave it.

Please stop before you embarrass yourself any further.

orangebird · 20-01-2005, 09:55

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Originally Posted by JohnHorb

Centrica do have a relationship with McQuairy (sp?) who are involved in the purchase of Broadcast. Or it could be that NTL is an acronym for oNeTeL.

May be that's the connection - McQuairy (sp?) Comms is the company that's bought the Broadcast division....

STONEISLAND · 20-01-2005, 09:56

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

centrica also recently brought AA and goldfish companies both of them done in private. Centrica have already pumped in over 200 million into NTL as well. Me and my sister think either normal NTL staff havent been told or they have been told but told to not disclose anything to the public.

Take it or leave it.

Centrica In fact recently sold the AA and we did away with goldfish ages ago.
Centrica has not pumped in over 2 million into NTL ether.
Your sister is compleatly wrong.

goldoni · 20-01-2005, 10:13

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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

I know someone who works at NTL in the R and D department - this whole Centrica deal depends on whether the companies can fit together so they're working on GAS powered cable modems. There are at least a dozen Centrica employees there right now working with NTL.

At the moment they're having serious problems with the trial due to fluctuations in broadband speeds where customers have living flame gas fires which draw too much supply away from the modem. I have it on authority that if these problems arent sorted soon then the Centrica deal is dead in the water. If everything goes to plan though, there will be a national role out of GPB (gas powered broadband) even in non cable areas meaning direct competition with BT nationally.

The problem has been they did not get a CORGI registered NTL engineer to fit the modem. If two of the six 15mm elbows were removed the modem would have 20mb WP and would work within its designed spec. QED