NTL Broadband Plans

thegills

I saw this in Irishjobs

NTL Broadband Engineer - Overall responsibility for defining, planning and delivering the end to end technology solutions required to deliver ntl Ireland’s Consumer Broadband Roadmap within budget constraints.

If anything it shows that they do have a broadband plan!

dahamsta

My six year old could do a better job than they're doing at the moment, so we're going to type up a CV for him this evening.

adam

NeRb666

Originally posted by thegills
within budget constraints

:rolleyes:

flamegrill

Originally posted by dahamsta
My six year old could do a better job than they're doing at the moment, so we're going to type up a CV for him this evening.

adam

LOL

Sloth

How stupid can they be not to have launched everywhere by now? I know it might cost a good bit to set up but once they had that done I'm pretty damned sure everyone would sign up with them. If NTL became available in my area I'd sign up with them without a second's notice.

bk

Originally posted by Sloth
How stupid can they be not to have launched everywhere by now? I know it might cost a good bit to set up but once they had that done I'm pretty damned sure everyone would sign up with them. If NTL became available in my area I'd sign up with them without a second's notice.

I remember reading some where that it would cost 1,300 (I can't remember if it was euro or punt, but I think it was punt) per customer to upgrade their cable to two way quality cable.

That's a lot of cash.

You see most of the cable in the UK was high quality and capable of doing two way communications. Therefore it is easy and cheap to roll out bb.

In Ireland we are yet again plagued by cheap and inferior cable that can't do two way communications. Therefore in order to roll out bb, they would have to dig up everyones cable and change it.

The areas that have cable BB are the areas that where last to get cable TV and because at that stage they had begun thinking about BB over cable, they laid better quality cable.

Supposedly with the latest roll out in Lucan, they have found a way of getting BB over the cheaper quality cable, so it won't cost them a fortune to roll it out to everyone

SkepticOne

Originally posted by bk
Supposedly with the latest roll out in Lucan, they have found a way of getting BB over the cheaper quality cable, so it won't cost them a fortune to roll it out to everyone

Aren't a lot of the estates in Lucan very new, in which case it would probably be the higher grade cable.

MDR

I know it might cost a good bit to set up but once they had that done I'm pretty damned sure everyone would sign up with them. If NTL became available in my area I'd sign up with them without a second's notice.

Until recentily Ireland has represented a cash cow for NTL, they overpaid hugely for cablelink and since there is no real market pressure from Eircom (they aren't really in the phone business - NTL I mean), they have just been looking to milk the assets for as long as possible.

Upgrading areas in Ireland is no more expensive than rolling out cable services to parts of wales (as they are doing at the moment), but why would they bother, when they already have a nice little earner from digital tv and very little market pressure to improve, it seems like alot of money for very little return.

Although I do suspect now that SKY is beginning to hurt NTL, so maybe this new rollout has been driven by an effort to compete with SKY ... perhaps ...

thegills

NTL can only offer services in Dublin, Waterford and Galway, AFAIK.

SkepticOne

Originally posted by thegills
NTL can only offer services in Dublin, Waterford and Galway, AFAIK.

No, they can offer them anywhere. The exclusive franchise areas of Chorus and NTL are gone.

GerardKeating

Originally posted by bk
In Ireland we are yet again plagued by cheap and inferior cable that can't do two way communications. cable,

Actually, this is one of the few (only?) cases where we are kind of plagued by being ahread of the game. remember Cable in Ireland (or Dublin at least) is 30 years old.