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This is just depressing....

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  • #2
    spongebob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,143 ✭✭✭spongebob


    If they included Ireland then the following UK specific figure

    "ntl has this morning announced that it has signed up its 300,000th broadband customer, and penetration of its always-on internet service has reached 13% in served areas"

    of 13% would drop below 10%. Their 'penetration' in Ireland is such that than LESS 1% of NTL customers have a broadband service of any kind from them.

    Dream on.


  • #3
    MDR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,538 ✭✭✭MDR


    Another news flash would NTL have no f**king money :mad:


  • #4
    BoneCollector
    Closed Accounts Posts: 512 ✭✭✭BoneCollector


    The Problem is... NTL ireland where sold a Lemon.
    They where given the impression the network could support the infrastructure they where interested in but found that it was old and needed major upgrading costing more than they intended.

    thats irish dealings for you (just look at the coms bill) how un specific can you get.?


  • #5
    spongebob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,143 ✭✭✭spongebob


    They bought an old unidirectional cable system knowingly.

    Orthodoxy in the late 90's -2000 had it that subscriber numbers were all that counted and not the state of the distribution system.

    They dived in like a pig into manure.

    M


  • #6
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    BC, when you're buying something that costs millions of pounds, you don't just go and kick the tyres, you take it apart to make sure everything is up to scratch. If you don't, or as in this case, if NTL really was sold a ringer - and I very much doubt that - they would only have themselves to blame. NTL have no excuses, just like all the comms companies. They were excessive and often idiotic in the boom, and that's the only reason they're having trouble in the bust. Tough.

    adam


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  • #7
    MDR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,538 ✭✭✭MDR


    They where determined outbid Dennis O'Brien regardless of cost ...
    They went in with their eyes wide open, they knew all about the network and its condition, and they went ahead anyway, 'cos that was the nature of the market at the time.


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