Originally posted by shefflad:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Yus, I know that Mark, but Birmingham isnt one of them, so said poster is misleading people.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Telewest rolled out broadband in the old Birmingham Cable areas, but alas not on their old cabletime system.
Parts of Birmingham, Liverpool, Preston & London are not yet broadband enabled by Telewest, the said poster is therefore correct.
My brother lives in Liverpool, lives in a Telewest cable area, has a Telewest cable telephone but can't get broadband off them.
You are misleading yourself never mind anyone else if you think calling itself Telewest Broadband means it's areas are 100% broadband or digital tv enabled.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Where are these CableTime facts on the telewest website then?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">20 Nov 2001
Cabletime
"Telewest will not be performing a full Digital upgrade to our Cabletime areas during 2002. The process is due to start in 2003 and will be completed before the end of 2004. The trial of 10 thousand homes will continue as we seek to provide the most cost effective way and least disruptive way to upgrade. As this affects our ability to offer HSI services in these regions, under great marketing pressure we are now investigating further how a partially upgraded network can be suited to provide these services in a shorter time frame. It would appear that Cabletime while offering impossible technical barriers to Digital Television does not hold the same problems for HSI. Telewests Technology and Engineering teams are now looking at the possibilities of offering Cable modem services over Cabletime and will be reporting early in the New Year."
<a href="http://status.blueyonder.co.uk:888/announcements/archives/pages/20011120649.html" target="_blank">http://status.blueyonder.co.uk:888/announcements/archives/pages/20011120649.html</a>
03 May 2002
Cabletime
"It has now been identified that there is a technically feasible solution to enable an interim solution to provide broadband Internet services in Cabletime areas without incurring the costs of a total network upgrade.
The feasibility of a potential rollout for this solution and the associated business case is now in the process of being reviewed."
<a href="http://status.blueyonder.co.uk/announcements/archives/pages/200205031910.html" target="_blank">http://status.blueyonder.co.uk/announcements/archives/pages/200205031910.html</a>
05 Jun 2002
Cabletime
See last month's update:
"It has now been identified that there is a technically feasible solution to enable an interim solution to provide broadband Internet services in Cabletime areas without incurring the costs of a total network upgrade.
The feasibility of a potential rollout for this solution and the associated business case is now in the process of being reviewed."
<a href="http://status.blueyonder.co.uk/announcements/archives/pages/200206051759.html" target="_blank">http://status.blueyonder.co.uk/announcements/archives/pages/200206051759.html</a>