I was reading cnn.com and i know many of you british ppl dislike them, so i'm gonna show you the story and then you can take the piss outta it. Have fun with it.

LONDON (CNN) -- NTL, the UK's largest cable-television operator, has announced it will cut 2,000 more jobs and freeze managerial pay in an effort to cut costs.

The company, which axed nearly 5,000 jobs in the past year, said the cuts would go in the UK under a compulsory and voluntary redundancy programme, reducing its UK workforce to 13,000.

NTL shares fell in New York on Friday to a record low of $1.12, valuing Britain's largest cable group at just $300 million, amid expectations in the bond market it will have to overhaul its balance sheet to cope with its $17 billion debt.

"The initiatives being announced today are a continuation of our cost-cutting programme. They are prudent in the current climate and will allow us to operate more efficiently," Chief Executive Barclay Knapp told Reuters.

Chief Operating Officer Stephen Carter told the news agency NTL, which is seeking to improve its customer service, would not get rid of any customer-serving employees.

Moody's Investors Service cut NTL's credit rating last month on concern it will have to convert bonds into other securities as revenue growth slows and interest costs rise, causing shares to fall a record 46 percent.

NTL shares have not yet started trade on Monday in New York, but shares in Telewest – another British cable operator -- dropped almost 6percent in early London trade.

NTL and Telewest, whose franchise areas are separate, pass about 16 million UK homes and together have 1.5 million digital customers.

ntl blow! i am with them, for them that we're here during yevat's time will no the amount of time we spent banging on about them, uuuuugh! read this quality quote from there site, i found it on 15 seconds-

ntl ftp:
To make accessing your webspace even easier, we recommend you use the ntlworld ftp browser powered by Terrapin. This easy to use, intuitive browser makes accessing your ntlworld webspace (and any other webspace) very easy. Our ftp service is available to use on a trial basis free of charge, for 30 days. After this time, you'll need to pay a one-off fee of £19.99 to continue to use.

-OR-

u download any ftp client across the web such as cuteFTP or flashFXP or anything like that...free of charge, stupid pillocks.

of all the ftp clients..you mention flash

how much do you pay for Cable over there Coup and what is the avg. speed? curious

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well the uk is the slowest to get common broadband over here, and there are two "main" compainies that offer broadband, NTL and BT, both suck, well my ntl is actually pretty good, its just every other single thing bu ntl is bullshit, anyway, my cable cost

£25 Installation Fee
£25 a month so u'll have to convert that into $$

rates? 15k upload steady, and i get maxes of 60k/sec from say microsoft.com, but anything from 30k/sec - 60k/sec, but lets say the better end of 40

i no thats not as good as most cable out there, but living here we're only lightweights in broadband and the alternative is 56k so...

-coup-

better than dialup is what I say...


especially since you guyz have costs for CALLING out on your phones for DIALUP

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• Adrian Lux - Can't Sleep
  
• Benjamin Francis Leftwich - See You
  
• Company of Thieves - Even In The Dark