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NTL Communications (Ireland) Limited is a cable television and MMDS company in the Republic of Ireland. As of 2005 it is owned by Liberty Global Europe (see history, below), having been divested by NTL (now called Virgin Media). It continues to use the NTL brand under licence pending a rebranding, most likely as UPC Ireland. NTL logo This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ...
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Liberty Global Europe (formerly UGC Europe, and previously United Pan-Europe Communications or UPC, and still usually primarily trading under that brand) is Europes biggest cable TV provider, also providing internet access, telephony and other related services. ...
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Services The company holds cable television licences for Dublin, Galway, and Waterford cities (with the Dublin licence also covering Leixlip, County Kildare, Dunboyne, County Meath, and Bray, County Wicklow). It also holds MMDS franchises for cells covering the above counties, as well as County Mayo. It provides an analogue cable television service (with a very high take up in its areas passed), which provides the Irish terrestrial channels, plus BBC One, BBC Two, UTV, Channel 4, Sky One and a small number of other channels. It also provides a digital television service, with over a third of its customer base taking a digital service. The company has also converted its entire MMDS network to digital, with an offering of approximately 70 TV and radio services. The analogue MMDS is now switched off. Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house. ...
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Statistics Province: Leinster County Town: Navan Code: MH Area: 2,342 km² Population (2006) 162,621 Website: www. ...
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Statistics Province: Leinster County Town: Wicklow Code: WW Area: 2,024 km² Population (2007) 114,676 Website: www. ...
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Over the past 2 years the company has been aggressively rolling out broadband and have enabled one third of its Dublin and 100% of its network in Galway and Waterford for Broadband. The company is rapidly becoming a major Broadband provider in Ireland.
History
RTÉ / Telecom Éireann ownership The company began operations in 1970 as RTÉ Relays, a subsidiary of Radio Telefís Éireann. It carried four channels - RTÉ Television, BBC1 , BBC2, and Ulster Television. In 1984, the company merged with Dublin Cable Systems, itself the product of a merger of Marlin Cable with Phoenix Relays. In 1986, the Irish Government began to allow Irish cable companies to carry non-terrestrial (ie satellite) services. In the same year, RTÉ merged all of its cable operations (including two other cable companies, Galway Cablevision and Waterford Cablevision) to form Cablelink Limited. Radio TelefÃs Éireann[1] (RTÉ; IPA: , ) is the Public Service Broadcaster of the Republic of Ireland. ...
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As Cablelink, the company was Ireland's largest cable company by far, and expanded to a fifteen channel service (plus premium channels) gradually. In 1990, Telecom Éireann acquired 60% of the company from RTÉ. The biggest controversy the company managed to embroil itself during this time was a dispute with British Sky Broadcasting over carriage fees for Sky One and Sky News. This led to the two channels being pulled from the platform from 1992-1994. The "return of Bart Simpson" was prematurely announced by Cablelink several times before the channels actually reappeared. The corporate logo. ...
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The company also wished to develop broadband services in 1997/1998 but there was an embargo on developing and selling Internet services by the main shareholders, Telecom Éireann, but the management felt if it were developed and a trial launched then there would be no stopping this. To conceal this from the Board, they hired a small Dublin company The Communications Interactive Agency to manage and run the trial. To this end all purchases of equipment and Internet Services were done in their name. The corporate logo. ...
At the time they were one of the first companies in Europe to trial and launch Broadband services. What stopped the trial from becoming a full roll out across their network was the purchase by NTL. It took the company almost 4 more years to integrate NTL Broadband service. Broadband in telecommunications is a term which refers to a signaling method which includes or handles a relatively wide range of frequencies which may be divided into channels or frequency bins. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Virgin Media, Telewest and Virgin. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Virgin Media, Telewest and Virgin. ...
Broadband in telecommunications is a term which refers to a signaling method which includes or handles a relatively wide range of frequencies which may be divided into channels or frequency bins. ...
Sale to NTL In 1999, as part of the privatisation of Eircom, the Government put pressure on the shareholders of Cablelink to sell the company. Part of the reason was that Eircom was regarded by some as a "spoiler shareholder" in Cablelink, refusing to allow the company to compete in the voice telephony market that it dominated. The company was put up for auction, with bidders including Esat Telecom Group, NTL, and UPC, as well as CMI Cable and Irish Multichannel. It was eventually announced that NTL would acquire the company for IR£650m (€825 million). eircom Group plc is the largest telecommunications operator in the Republic of Ireland. ...
BT Communications Ireland Limited, (formerly Esat Telecommunications Limited), is a telecommunications and internet company in the Republic of Ireland. ...
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Liberty Global Europe (formerly UGC Europe, and previously United Pan-Europe Communications or UPC, and still usually primarily trading under that brand) is Europes biggest cable TV provider, also providing internet access, telephony and other related services. ...
Chorus Communications is a communications provider in Ireland, it offers internet, television and telephone services. ...
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Under NTL, the company was renamed NTL Ireland on 3 July 2000, and began offering telephony and internet services. The company began to upgrade its network and in 2001 launched its digital television service. However the company lost two managing directors during the time NTL ran the franchise. The biggest crisis erupted in early 2001, when NTL stopped selling its direct telephony and high-speed internet services, and halted the roll out of its upgraded hybrid fibre coax network. This led to a very public row with the Commission for Communications Regulation, and the resignation of Ian Jeffers, the NTL executive who had been assigned to the Dublin operation upon the NTL takeover. Some years later, the company was forced to suspend its telephone service after problems with the equipment emerged. July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 181 days remaining. ...
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Sale to Morgan Stanley Despite NTL Ireland turning a profit as a result of its expected merger with Telewest, the Irish assets were now considered non-core. In May 2005, NTL sold its Irish business to Morgan Stanley (on behalf of Liberty Global Europe (then called UGC Europe)). MS Irish Cable Holdings, a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, held the stake on UGC's behalf, until the deal received regulatory clearance. Telewest (formerly Telewest Broadband and Telewest Communications) is a trading name of NTL Incorporated, the dominant cable operator in the United Kingdom with more than 90% of the market. ...
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However a Competition Authority investigation into the proposed re-sale of the company to Liberty Global Europe took place. On 4 November 2005 it was announced the Competition Authority had cleared the deal, subject to the appointment of an independent director to the board of UPC Ireland and restrictions on the influence of John C. Malone on the running of the Irish business. November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. ...
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John C. Malone is the current chairman of Liberty Media and graduate and philanthropist of Hopkins School. ...
The deal was approved by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment, Micheál Martin on 5 December 2005, and closed on 12 December 2005. For now, Liberty continues to use the NTL brand (under licence) in Ireland. However, it is expected that Liberty Global will shortly merge NTL Ireland with its existing Irish operations - Chorus Communications - as UPC Ireland. The Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment is one of the most important economic ministeries in the Irish Cabinet. ...
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Chorus Communications is a communications provider in Ireland, it offers internet, television and telephone services. ...
In early 2006 the two companies were placed under a single management team. On 3 July 2006 it was reported on RTÉ News that as part of the merger, up to 350 jobs would be lost, including the closure of NTL's call centre in Waterford. The two brands remain for the time being however. In December 2006 NTL's customer service department closed, and customer service was transferred to Chorus in Limerick. In January 2007, billing was transferred to a new system. This has proved to be controversial. A €2 charge for customers paying by means other than Direct Debit was planned, but the Consumer Protection Act, 2007 will outlaw this when passed. Alongside this came a tougher credit control policy. Bills generated using the new system also refer to the digital TV package as "UPC Digital", in reference to the forthcoming rebranding. July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 181 days remaining. ...
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The current channels available on the NTL Ireland and Chorus digital television services (both part of UPC Ireland). ...
Rebranding What is presumed to be the start of a rebranding process of NTL Ireland began in September 2006. On 5 September, digiboxes were updated to remove "Intermission" from the guide, and replace it with "Channel Off Air", and the ntl.ie website, which had long been dormant, was updated to a new layout extremely similar to that of chorus.ie, itself heavily based on upc.nl. It is unknown if the two updates are connected, but it is presumable that at the very least, the website update is part of the rebranding process.
It is unknown if, assuming a full rebranding is carried out, if UPC will merge the layouts of digital channels of the two. It is likely that if the channel numbers are merged, that a system similar to NTL Ireland's current one, as NTL currently has well over 100 channels available, but Chorus only uses a 2-digit numbering system (with the exception of Channel 6, on channel #106. It may also cause some channels to be dropped or added - numerous channels are available only on NTL (e.g. some of the MTV UK & Ireland channels), which may either cause UPC to add all channels to both, drop the ones they don't have in common, or a mix of both. It should be pointed out that NTL in the UK continued to run two different channel layouts long after its merger with Cable and Wireless Communications, and continued to run three different operating systems (for the former NTL, CWC, and Telewest systems, until NTL and Telewest merged to become Virgin Media). On 22 March 2007 Chorus adopted the NTL channel layout and a subset of their digital line up on digital cable only. The original Chorus line-up continues on MMDS for now however. Current Logo Animation MTV UK and Ireland is a version of MTV Europe which serves the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. ...
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Telewest (formerly Telewest Broadband and Telewest Communications) is a trading name of NTL Incorporated, the dominant cable operator in the United Kingdom with more than 90% of the market. ...
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On 25 January 2007, NTL Ireland updated the electronic programme guide software to remove the NTL logo and all mention of the NTL name. However the UPC name has not replaced it, the areas which contained the NTL logo simply having been left blank. The colour scheme is still NTL's. From 31 January 2007, NTL and Chorus began advertising jointly, although the adverts were simply the ongoing campaign from NTL with the Chorus logo added to them. January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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In a Sunday Business Post article on 11 February 2007, UPC Ireland's marketing manager revealed that the rebrand is due to take place no later than May 2007. The Sunday Business Post is an Irish national Sunday newspaper published by Thomas Crosbie Holdings Limited. ...
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On April 27th, 2007 NTL removed the channel Men and Motors although a space was left blank with the name above it, on the NTL EPG. This has lead to much concern over the competence of the company. Much anger has been expressed by customers as the digital provider removed several channels without replacing them (i.e. Bliss, Flaunt, Scuzz) yet recently increased the charge for its service. Frustration from customers on this issue has been widely mixed with NTL's slow EPG performance and a regular occurance of pictures feezing. Introduction Men & Motors is a mens lifestyle television channel in the UK. It is the last remaining station operated by Granada Sky Broadcasting, a joint venture set up by Granada Television (now part of ITV plc) and British Sky Broadcasting in 1996. ...
Customer Service NTL Ireland have been notorious for their lack of customer service and support. For issues contact:
Niall McNally, Head of Customer Service
niall.mcnally@ntl.ie
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