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Yep, and I checked if I could get it the other day and I can. If this price rise does happen I'll drop NTL, move to SKY, BT and a decent ADSL provider. Oh well, been 5 years with NTL. Been waiting long enough for interactive TV. Seems I'll be leaving them before I even get it! :td:

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bluddddy annoying when you cant get adsl though :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

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I can't believe they're doing this kind of price hike for 1Mb to be honest. The email servers are ropey, the news servers are utter crap and there's a download cap. Are they trying to force people to leave? Pay nearly £40 for a service which, when compared with many ADSL packages wouldn't be worthwhile if the price was the same, but it's much higher, what's the point at all?

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:(

I guess I'll be phoning NTL to downgrade to the 600k service then.

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You also have to ask what you are allowed to download with bulldog limits etc

check what the cap is with them, dont jump out of the frying pan into the fire

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I wouldn't mind a small price increase if they increased the upload bandwidth to be similar to adsl. i.e. 600/256, and maybe a bit more on the 1mbit. 1Mb/300 or so ?

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Hey NOONOO, I posted these prices increases on DS.
I'm sorry you dont understand them, lets make things easy;:angel:

All the Call Features (except Voicemail plus) are increasing in price by 50%.:Yikes:
This is what i dont agree with because they are network services which dont actually cost the company anything, so this is a massive (unjustified) fatcat hike.:mad:

1mb broadband is increasing in price from £34-99 to £37-99.

The UnLtd dial-up internet service which costs £10 is increasing to £12-49.

The Pay as you go internet service which is 1 penny per minute at all times of the day is increasing in price to 3p per minute peak rate, 2ppm evenings and 1ppm all weekend (+5p connection charge).

Customers can cancel their contracts if they are still in the first year of service AND they give notice within 30 days of the price increase;)

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Bulldog only cap their new "economy" packages I believe, the prime-time and all-time products have NO cap at all. :D

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Hey, I only said i didn't understand half of them, but thanks for clarifying things. It never clicked that NTL could possibly be dumb enough to charge 3p/min for internet access during the day so i assumed you were talking about some strange and rare phone package.

None of the price rises will have any impact on me becasue I've long since cancelled the base pack and voicemail and I'm on 150K.

nice to see that dial up is now £12.50, and the base pack is 18quid or so. If you have both these services then the total price rise since they were introduced has been over £20! I.e they now cost three times as much!

Thanks for posting the price rises, my sympathies to anyone who is effected by them.

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Thank you for the update its only fair that we compare like with like, so which package are similar to NTL.
In the following:
E-mail, webspace, customer service, speed, reliability, proxies

Think you will find it hard to find someone similar to NTL

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So what do us 1mb users get for our extra few pound price increase? Better service, increased reliability, three-tone printed statements ;), a christmas card...? Has someone already asked this obvious question, lol! :)

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Same as you get now-pathetic email/poor interactive on your DTV that locks up your STB/poor picture quality on your DTV/brief picture blackouts/crackly sound-what a bargain, where do I sign up?-oh, I don't need to!! :D

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Their prime-time and all-time packages are an internet connection with no proxys etc. There is no cap and a faster upload than Ntl's 150 and 600k options (256) The reliability is excelent, I've not had a slow days browsing yet (since Jan), but they do provide an 0845 dialup service incase of a fault. They do several different speeds depending on where you are and you may need to buy a modem, I paid 20.00 for mine :) a few examples:

or

Both these are FULLTIME products you are on the same speed tarrif all day everyday.

Then there's the primetime products:

and

These two products (primetime) are limited to certan exchanges, but you can find out if you are able to have them on Bulldogs website below.

Their new "economy" package is avalable for 15.99 a month but there IS a cap, it is the only product they do that's capped "A data download limit of 2 Gigabyte per month is applied to the PrimeTime 500 service"


As an aside to this webspace and email are EXTRA, Bulldog do a bolt on for either 2.99 or 4.99 a month:
http://www.bulldogdsl.com/special_offers.asp

Oh and they recently won the coverted "Best consumer broadband ISP" :D

[Edit] (Neil)-Link fixed.

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Well once they notify me of the increase I'll be downgrading back to 600k, not much difference if you ask me.

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If you haven't seen it yet: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/36760.html