It Needn't Be Hell With NTL

We couldn't help dreaming up this title for all those terrestrial TV addicts fighting the continued peer pressure to give up their analogue antiques in favor of a hit of pure Class A cable.

On Wednesday this week, NTL agreed to acquire the residential business of Cable & Wireless Communications for £8.3 billion. Another interesting step in NTL's move into the bloodstream of the UK's public, following their high profile press campaign and recent "purchases".

This acquisition "brings together the UK's top two providers of cable services and puts us in a perfect position to lead Britain into the digital communications future. Our combined organisation will give us the scale to compete more effectively than ever against other operators. As you know, no other platform can match cable's ability to bundle together telephony, TV and internet services in a value for money package for the customer."

The combined operations of the two companies will bring "unprecedented scale in the development of broadband fibre networks in the UK and the world." Which can't be a bad thing, as it will be some healthy competition against the BT's bungled efforts to sort out their DSL network and keep BSkyB on their toes for their over priced pay-TV programming.

We like NTL here at Ninfomania, maybe because they send us their press releases before anyone else, or because their techies always seen to come up with the best answers for our competition, but either way we have a sneaky suspicion NTL are going to get "rather bigger than something that is quite large already". So, in a text based tribute, we have put together all the trainspotting tech spec and stats from their press archive for the BT, BSkyB and BBC members on the list to include in your next competitive review group mailout. We have also dug up a link to one of our previous articles on this soon-to-be new drug of nation. Got any Rizla mate.

http://www.ntl.com/

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