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hey,

i live in an NTL franchised area, with the NTL cable running past our lane, but not coming down it :( I have counted 30 house in 800m of lane, so is there any chance of persuading NTL to cable the area, and if not, how much wud i have 2 pay them. As for DSL or IDSN - forget it, ive tried, so this is my last option bar satellite <img border="0" alt="[Crap]" title="" src="graemlins/crap.gif" />
 
I live in an ex C&W area and there has been no network expansion here since NTL took over C&W residential, (they stopped at the top of my Dads street) and like most TELCOs I doubt they are planning to do much in the present climate, as for paying them to Cable your lane I dont know the figures, but I would think if they were willing to do it for cash you would be looking at thousands per meter.
 
I've recently moved into a brand new house, pre wired for cable, on a new estate which is all pre-wired with ntl: cable. I have three ntl: cabinets outside my next door neighbours house, 2 SDH and 1 Amplifier. ntl: only put the active equipment in these four months ago (i.e. brand new) and no one in my street has managed to persude ntl: to connect them to the network. We are all getting very frustrated.

Alan
 
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I would forget it. NTL just are not interested.
Even with their refinance deal it is difficult to see NTL having anything other then a short term future. Looks to me as if they will milk as much out of the existing network as they can and then cut & run.
They just are not investing in even the network they have, you cannot carry on like that for any length of time.
The did have a dabble at Broadband Wireless but lost interest in that.

Lost cause I am afraid
 
If having more broadband customers than anyone else is dabbling, where does that leave BT and TW? Whether or not they last long term, the feeling is that it's broadband or nothing if they're to get any money back.
 
The problem NTL & Telewest have is in the World of Telecoms they are very very small players. It also needs a hell of a lot of investment, NTL are not investing anywhere near enough in their Network. NTL's revenues will at best remain static but are more likely to reduce. They will gain some Broadband users but will also lose some to ADSL (Not everyone wants to take the TV services but with NTL you have to) They will also lose most of their BT Narrow band users as they migrate to ADSL. Without investment in expanding their Network there days look numbered. I suspect however that there will be a merger with Telesest and the combined company will in turn get taken over by one of the US giants untill then NTL will limp along going kno.where
 
Back around the start of April I managed to ambush one of NTL's maintenance managers, who was with a posse of engineers gathered around the junction box at the corner of our road.

I asked the obvious question "When's it coming to this neck of the woods, then?" and was told that the budget for this area had just been signed off and it was only a matter of installing the kit - 2 to 3 months tops - adding that he had a vested interest, since he was also stuck with 56k.

We've had the cabling in this (ex C&W) area for some time now and I already have NTL's digital TV service, via a STB. However, apart from three recent postcards from NTL, asking me to subscribe to the NTLworld service I'm already using(!) I've heard nothing since, but will keep you posted. It surely can't be long now, can it?
 
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I live in Binly and am awaiting Ntl to cable my area does anyone know if or when they ever will?
<img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />
 
Sorry, but don't hold your breath. 1) They have no money for further roll-out, and 2) they've openly stated they're not looking for new customers; they want to make more money out of existing customers.
 
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by clakus:
[QB and 2) they've openly stated they're not looking for new customers; they want to make more money out of existing customers.[/QB]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">That was last year, they've since got their bondholders & lending banks to agree to a debt for equity swap & have already stated that they are now going for 'growth'. They've just bought the itv digital customer database for an estimated £1 million & have agreed a new shipment of 300,000 stb's from Pace in addition to the 250,00 already on order from Samsung.

The company said last month it may make its first-ever net profit in 2002 after it emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection around September.
 
Seems to me they have payed well over the odds. ITV digital had about 200,000 subscribers of which about 10% opted for their details not to be given out a further 60% live in non NTL cabled areas, leaving them with a potential 92,000 subscribers, if they get 20% of those signed up they will be doing well, so they are paying £1,000,000 to get under 20,000 subscribers
A cool £500/£600 per subscriber.
 
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Update to my post on 02-06-02.

It took them 25 minutes to answer my call, but (for what it's worth) NTL's Broadband Enquiry Desk this evening quoted a date of "August" for switching on the Wessex region.

For those with plenty of time to spare, here's the number: 0845 650 0500.
 
I have seen some activity of road works or something down the Binley Rd over the past few weeks. I noticed a grey type box on the side of the road is that a cable box? it has slots on it an looks kind of new? since Hipswell Highway my nearest Cabled area i got excited please answer this post i'm cwazy about getting Cable. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />
 
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by <Skynet>:
<strong>I have seen some activity of road works or something down the Binley Rd over the past few weeks. I noticed a grey type box on the side of the road is that a cable box? it has slots on it an looks kind of new? since Hipswell Highway my nearest Cabled area i got excited please answer this post i'm cwazy about getting Cable. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Sounds like a Post Office Box that they drop of sacks of mail into.
 
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Web Buddy:
<strong>Seems to me they have payed well over the odds. ITV digital had about 200,000 subscribers of which about 10% opted for their details not to be given out a further 60% live in non NTL cabled areas, leaving them with a potential 92,000 subscribers, if they get 20% of those signed up they will be doing well, so they are paying £1,000,000 to get under 20,000 subscribers
A cool £500/£600 per subscriber.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">They paid an estimated 50p per head for a database of 2 million former ondigital / itv digital subscribers. They didn't pay for those who didn't want their details passed on because they didn't receive those very details.

ITV digital had approx. 1.25 million subscribers at it's peak plus those that had already left over the years. There is nothing stopping ntl sharing the list with Telewest if they so desire.

Analysts believe ntl got the list at a bargain price, it's much cheaper to target potential customers that have previously shown an interest in digital tv than to run a multi-million pound national advertising campaign over several months hoping to attract those very same people.

They are also offering various cut price deals to those customers, including (but not all together) free installation, free number porting from BT, free off peak local & national calls, half price digital tv packages for 12 months & free Sky sports & movies for 12 months.
 
ITVD would not have gone bust if it had 2,000,000 it only had 200,000
 
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I am an ex customer of ITV Digital (was a customer when it went bust), I didn't ask for my details to be restricted.

We have phoned Sky and Telewest as we don't have ntl here and they're not doing any deals at the moment.

Does anyone know if there is any offers popping along soon?

Cheers,
Dave
 
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Web Buddy:
<strong>ITVD would not have gone bust if it had 2,000,000 it only had 200,000</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">"NTL, the cable group, continued to step up its customer acquisition strategy with the purchase of ITV Digital's database of 2 million customers.

It is thought that NTL, which had put customer growth on the back burner in the past few months while it tackled its financial crisis, paid about £1m to buy the subscriber records of ITV Digital. Although ITV Digital had about 1 million customers left when it was put into administration at the end of March, the database includes details of households that once subscribed to the service but had cancelled their contracts."

<a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=298694" target="_blank">http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=298694</a>
 
Are you sure they have already bought the ITV Digital..

BBC are also bidding for the ITV Digital... and Apex.
Todays headline Apax pits itself against BBC consortium with 11th-hour bid for ITV Digital

<a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=305025" target="_blank">here.</a>
 
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