Re: How long have you had cable BB
 

Since 2002 with ntl, then Virgin although probably not much longer. Last year they matched a £52 quote I got from Sky but not this year so my price I’d due to increase to £75, think I might give Sky a try

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Been with Diamond Cable for 24 years this year for phone and signed up for BB 20 years ago this year. The only tier at the time was 512k with a Terayon TJ210 for £25/month.

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Join with Comtel in 1997. Got somebody I know at Comtel to get me an install as soon as my address appeared on their system.

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Back when this forum began, it was always part of offering advice to find out whether the poster was in an ‘original NTL’ or ‘ex-C&W’ area before proceeding. It’s all a hazy memory now but I think the diagnostic tool was to ask what colour the EPG graphics were. :D

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I think it was early 1990 as I have an NTL email,

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Some time in the 90's when i started working for them and still work for them now and yes still have BB Tv and Phone from them

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Yeah, that's correct. NTL was purple, C&W was blue.

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We got Ntl the day it launched in our area in 1998, I remember the guy coming round to sell it, we had just got Sky Digital so he said pit the cable TV box in the bedroom.
I remember the preview channels and that The Box music channel was different to the Sky version, different phone number and video played on TV.
I remember our first modem 500mb with flashing green lights, we felt so modern. Ditched Sky, and then Virgin TV but now back with Virgin TV.

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Not at home but in early 90's was working for a hospital in central London and we go on with the university IT bods so had 100Mb SuperJANET to our desks. Boy was Compuserver and other proper networked services quick.

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was a customer of NTL / VM from 2004 till 2019 now customer of Liberty Global so still in some ways VM :) might not be for much longer as here the prices are a bit higher for a worse service.

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Think the first (TV) box I had back with NTL was a Pace - Worked a treat, but I know for a fact that the cards were easy to acquirefor those...
That was quite prevalent at the time, I think!

I think the old Nynex/C&W parts of the network had a bit of a bad reputation didn't they? - Bad infrastructure etc...

Tom

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Many moons ago , When ever ntl came to Cardiff. that was around the time of acorn computers so remember the noise!

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Same although, it was Nynex>Cable & Wireless>ntl>Virgin Media. Initially had the 512Kbps package for £25 per month. At the time this was a bargain with unmetered access dialup companies going out of business fast.

Who remembers the EzeSurf and VisualDepth and RedHotAnt days of 0800 access and busy phonelines, crap and non-existent customer services? :erm:

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I dont recall any of them, prior to cable I had virgin.net dialup.
Indeed, my virgin net email worked for quite a long while after I left them.

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Nobody had cable broadband pre-2000. .....(apart from trialists)

I think ntl "trialed" it in Surrey in 1999 but didn't roll it out properly until 2000/2001 and Telewest was around March 2000.

Both companies launched with a blisteringly fast 512Kb product.