16-06-2004, 21:25
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original NTL areas
Are there areas which ntl built? What year did ntl start building networks? If i remember our area was done in about 1994 and we had service quite quickly after they ducted our road.
I rememeber watching them doing the ducting and they litterally just threw it in. It was quite amazing actually how fast they did it all.
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16-06-2004, 21:58
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Re: original NTL areas
Some areas were built by Cabletel, which was the company Barclay Knapp started which became ntl in time.
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16-06-2004, 22:05
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Re: original NTL areas
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16-06-2004, 22:12
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Re: original NTL areas
The original Cabletel areas were Kirklees, Luton, Guildford, Belfast, Cardiff, Swansea and Glasgow.
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16-06-2004, 22:15
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Re: original NTL areas
Not forgetting there was also Comtel, I know they used to cover the Stafford area.
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16-06-2004, 22:19
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Re: original NTL areas
We were Nynex. They did our area around 1994.
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16-06-2004, 22:30
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Re: original NTL areas
Diamond Cable, here
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16-06-2004, 22:56
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Re: original NTL areas
Used to be Swindon Cable (gosh, those were the days, many years ago...), then Comtel here, before it became NTL
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16-06-2004, 23:16
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Re: original NTL areas
Leeds was Jones Cable Group, then Bell CableMedia, then Cable and Wireless, then ntl.
manchester was Nynex, then Cable and Wireless, then ntl.
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17-06-2004, 00:29
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Re: original NTL areas
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Originally Posted by homealone
Diamond Cable, here 
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Ditto - still got their branding on my wall socket
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17-06-2004, 00:35
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Re: original NTL areas
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Originally Posted by Proppinupthebar
The original Cabletel areas were Kirklees, Luton, Guildford, Belfast, Cardiff, Swansea and Glasgow.
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i can still remember when the idiot contracters cut our power supply
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17-06-2004, 00:37
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Re: original NTL areas
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Originally Posted by clayts
Ditto - still got their branding on my wall socket 
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Shine on, you crazy Diamond
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17-06-2004, 01:00
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Re: original NTL areas
Quote:
Originally Posted by clayts
Ditto - still got their branding on my wall socket 
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Yep - good old Diamond sockets on my wall as well.
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17-06-2004, 01:05
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Re: original NTL areas
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Originally Posted by clayts
Ditto - still got their branding on my wall socket 
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ditto back at ya
both my wall plates display a Diamond Cable logo - one feeds a phone
the other feeds an analogue tv + family pack Scientific Atlanta stb & an ntl:home modem.
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17-06-2004, 10:59
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Re: original NTL areas
I think the new (well theyre not that new lmao) smooth ntl isolator houses are quite smart. I didnt like the old cable & wireless ones.
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