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Originally Posted by Pierre
Not really. It was one of the first questions asked when Liberty bought VM.
UPC Ireland used to be NTL Ireland.
I still know many of the people at UPC from the NTL days and we still work closely together on certain things.
Don't know what this may lead to though.
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Have Liberty made any soundings about moving operational management of network out of the UK NMCs into the Netherlands yet?
Merger of at least some parts of the Irish operation into the UK one would make a fair amount of sense.
Either way it's all unlikely to have any visible impact on VM customers as it would be Ireland into UK - an 855,000 homes passed operation is considerably easier to merge into a 12.6 million homes passed operation than the reverse.
EDIT: I still remember looking at the network that ntl had sold UPC and wondering if they knew what they had in store as far as upgrade bill went. Clearly they did! Dublin was always decent. Cork, Limerick and Galway were somewhat shoe-horned into handling broadband, in a fashion, the rest a one-way MATV platform; everything besides Dublin needed rebuild though.
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UPC Ireland’s customers are located in five regional clusters, including the capital city of Dublin, and the cities of Cork, Galway, and Limerick. Its cable network is 87% upgraded to two-way capacity, with 88% of its cable homes served by a network with a bandwidth of at least 750 Mhz.
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