The operation would come into force at the end of next year with what NTL thinks about how to save approximately 250 million pounds sterling (approximately 362 million euros).

His merger with Telewest in last March there created the biggest supplier of services of wide band in the United Kingdom and to it it continued the acquisition of Virgin Mobile.

NTL has suffered a big transformation in the last years, since it has started a financial restructuring to generate capital.

The announcement supposes a reverse for this sector in the United Kingdom, after the giant of the mobile telephony Orange was announcing plans last week to cut away up to approximately 2.000 work places after a review of his costs.

The signature of telecommunications Cable and Wireless warned in February that it might reduce his labor force of 5.500 persons and place it between 2.500 and 3.500 in the next five years.

The executive director of NTL, Steve Burch, reported that the merger with Telewest "progresses well" and added that the company has plans to "accelerate" this process.

The trade unions of the sector pointed out today that it is a question of a hard reverse for thousands of personnel in the whole country and questioned if the clippings will be in the end a benefit for the NTL clients.


(09/05/06)