Notification of Second Quarter 2008 Results

erm, made up figures, perhaps - The total VM ad bill was £70million last year, compared to BSkyB's £160million.

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[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by tvtimes

Uhhh read it again and digest properly. They are in the best position they have ever been for a cable company and previous to this quarter posted great statistics. This last quarter because of the write off virgin mobile it was a poor quarter.

That just makes no sense. 'best position they have ever been for a cable company and previous posted great statistics' is to me pretty equivocal. Surely in such a fantastic position they can afford a few quid for network overbuild?

No please do. I want to hear you "facts" please because i would like a good laugh i really would. Some of you are so dilluded you really are.
BT got governemtn funding FACT!

That you were so upset you couldn't spell deluded is funny. I never said that BT did not get any government funding, though BT PLC didn't, I pointed out that BT's NGN is not receiving any government funding and that since privatisation BT PLC's CapEx has dwarfed the intiial government spend. The government made a lot of money per year out of BT by the way.

As for revenue that goes to all different aspects of the business and they wouldn't put all their revenue from their tv channels into upgrading analogue areas. It goes to all different things like investing more into ondemand etc in order to help customer growth.

That doesn't really make sense either. Of course monies are spread around. Telephony was subsidising other parts of the business for quite some time. I'd have thought overbuilding so that customers who only had access to a few analogue channels can take full triple play would have been pretty good for growing customer base. Can I remind you that you said that it was all about them not being able to afford to do the overbuild, nothing at all to do with choosing not to which is what you are saying now.

I've no idea what you're trying to say with your post, it either makes little sense, states the obvious, or doesn't have any bearing on what I posted and you're contradicting yourself over and over in this thread

[akira]

you keep going on about BT investing in the NGN etc, bla bla bla and how because of this its not been paid for by the tax payer etc.

It dosn't matter who paid for the equipment whether its copper or fiber. The Tax payer still paid for the treches to be dug and the ducting to be laid which these cables run through. Its the actual laying of the ducting that costs the most and this is where BT have the advantage. Yes its going to cost them to replace the copper with fiber but they will use the exising ducting meaning not having to dig up roads etc.