Telewest upgrades Birmingham

Telewest is to bring broadband and digital TV services to punters in
Birmingham, the cableco announced today.

The upgrading of its existing analogue network in Birmingham is to begin
next month and continue through to April next year. It will be done on a
"street by street basis" with areas including Bourneville and Kings Norton
earmarked for digital treatment.

Following the upgrade, an extra 60,000 homes within Telewest's footprint
will be able to get digital services.

However, that still means that around 340,000 homes are still chugging along
on the cableco's analogue system in "small pockets" of Liverpool, West
London and Crawley, among others.

Currently, Telewest's cables pass around 4.9 million homes in the UK. Of
those, around 4.5 million could get digital services.

Telewest has around 1.72 million punters

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/32805.html

Hand ups who has or has had Digital TV in Birmingham

"David Cherry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Telewest is to bring broadband and digital TV services to punters in
> Birmingham, the cableco announced today.
>
> The upgrading of its existing analogue network in Birmingham is to begin
> next month and continue through to April next year.

I suppose it's lucky there's Sky and ADSL.

I wouldn't hold your breath for Telewest. They have a history of promising
much and delivering little.

It has to be extremely poor management that could allow a company to fall so
far behind, when it had such a head start. Perhaps a more forward looking
company will eventually take over the infrastructure and deliver a service
that makes full use of it's capabilities.

Who, five years ago, would have thought that a system using an ageing ex
state monopoly infrastructure would be ahead of the theoretically superior,
more modern one?

"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> It has to be extremely poor management that could allow a
company to fall so
> far behind, when it had such a head start. Perhaps a more
forward looking
> company will eventually take over the infrastructure and
deliver a service
> that makes full use of it's capabilities.

Alas, I think that may be pie in the sky, now that Telewest
has rescheduled its debt mountain, a merger between Telewest
& NTL looks very much on the cards, so things CAN get worse
;-)

P.

"PJB" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Alas, I think that may be pie in the sky, now that Telewest
> has rescheduled its debt mountain, a merger between Telewest
> & NTL looks very much on the cards, so things CAN get worse
> ;-)

It's funny how things have turned around. I originally got cable as I wasn't
happy with the BT monopoly, thinking competition would improve matters. It
certainly did. Telewest started acting like the monopoly and BT got their
act together.

Steve <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> "PJB" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Alas, I think that may be pie in the sky, now that Telewest
>> has rescheduled its debt mountain, a merger between Telewest
>> & NTL looks very much on the cards, so things CAN get worse
>> ;-)
>
> It's funny how things have turned around. I originally got cable as I
> wasn't happy with the BT monopoly, thinking competition would improve
> matters. It certainly did. Telewest started acting like the monopoly
> and BT got their act together.

At least Telewest had the sense to sling you out on your ear and cancel
your account.

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:11:43 GMT, "Homer J Simpson"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Steve <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> "PJB" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Alas, I think that may be pie in the sky, now that Telewest
>>> has rescheduled its debt mountain, a merger between Telewest
>>> & NTL looks very much on the cards, so things CAN get worse
>>> ;-)
>>
>> It's funny how things have turned around. I originally got cable as I
>> wasn't happy with the BT monopoly, thinking competition would improve
>> matters. It certainly did. Telewest started acting like the monopoly
>> and BT got their act together.
>
>At least Telewest had the sense to sling you out on your ear and cancel
>your account.
>
Worse for me, I was daft enough to buy a wad of their shares 2 years
ago and now they've ditched everything to hand their debts and their
soul to US companies, leaving us with sod all......my only
compensation was returning to BT out of spite and finding them a much
improved company than when I left :-(

Jasper

"Homer J Simpson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message > At least
Telewest had the sense to sling you out on your ear and cancel
> your account.

Wrong. They lost a paying customer. A concept Blueyonder seem to have
trouble with.

"Homer J Simpson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> At least Telewest had the sense to sling you out on your ear and cancel
> your account.

Wrong. They lost a paying customer. A concept Blueyonder seems to have
trouble with.