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NTL bought up all the other cable TV companies bankrupted by the cost of cabling up towns. They rebranded as Virgin Media about the same time as Branson was involved in getting a stack of other companies taking on the Virgin name. I don't think Branson ever held more than a minority stake. It was all a marketing exercise. I think they still exist under a huge debt mountain. Lots of grey NTL wall boxes around here. I don't think the whole town was cabled but most of the older areas were. 

I imagine it makes no economic sense to cable anywhere new now as putting in fibre would be so much cheaper although they were doing little fill ins at one time if a bunch of new houses got built between cabled areas.

Quote from: klondike on Yesterday at 03:01:54 PM

Oh stoppit.   

Klondike, you say in your first paragraph above about NTL,  well my email is still  NTL.   

Somehow I don't think you will be surprised by that,  though.     

Lucky here despite only being a modest sized town. Virgin have been here from way back in the NTL days when it was a TV and alternate phone to GPO Telephones. ADSL and then VDSL both arrived reasonably early then came Openreach fibre and not long after City Fibre sold by Vodafone.

I've had all of those although was originally living in a village when the glory of 512kbs ADSL replaced dial up. Then came upgrades to 1Mbps and 2Mbps and 8Mbps VDSL. I think I was in town before 16Mbps ADSL2  came along.. VDSL in this house started out OK but as the take up increased cross talk degraded it and that was when I took a 20Mbps VM connection and later upgraded to 50Mbps which was when the problems with them started and I eventually went to Openreach fibre which had just arrived here. I don't recall the actual speed or which ISP that was. I've always moved around between ISPs and currently I'm on my second term with Vodafone having deserted them for BT when they must have had some sale on or something because Vodafone wouldn't match their own new customer deal and BT actually worked out cheaper. They were both 500Mbps. I switched back to Vodafone and took their lower 150Mbps as it was significantly cheaper than the faster packages which hadn't been the case before and nobody can really make use of the basically willy waving speeds being offered these days.  About 30 years of internet covered there if include the start which was Compuserve dial up in 1995.

I'm still hoping that BRSK might expand into our area.  They already cover an area not a couple of hundred yards from us and they keep promising to extend to us.
I'll keep nagging at them when Virgin's prices go up in a couple of years.

Quote from: klondike on Yesterday at 06:42:07 PMNot sure what this has to do with the Green Party. I blame JBR - he mentioned pot holes first 

Oh, yes!  Blame me!
You're all just jealous because our road was correctly repaired, despite not having any potholes.
Having said that it's a Limp Dem council, I'd still never vote for them!

Not sure what this has to do with the Green Party. I blame JBR - he mentioned pot holes first 

I used to report fly tipping, leaf litter and overgrowing vegetation problems to the council using their own website but haven't recently. I'll give that a look but I doubt it will be effective.

I see the issue has already been reported - found the date and it was this morning. Be interesting to see what happens. https://www.fixmystreet.com/report/9034365
My guess ....
All they'll do is put some magic healing paint round some of them then ages later what was marked may well get patched (badly) but it the meantime more will have formed. It's never ending until they bite the bullet and dig the lot up and re-lay it all properly.

I do think people are getting fed up with potholes. I use Waze via AndroidAuto in my car and there are constant pot hole warnings showing people have at least made the effort to report them on that