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In practice, cost comparisons with Telewest have little relevance as NTL and Telewest franchises do not compete.

Overall NTL's concept of TV packages groupings does baffle me. It seems to be designed to ensure maximum customer payment for the one or two channels that are actually used. Why else at the mo have I had to subscribe to virtually everything NTL has to offer simply to get the essentials, IMO, of Sky one, E4, Movie Channels, UK Gold, ITV2, etc all which have all been scattered amongst different packages. Even finding out what channel is in what package is not exactly easy, when they change all the time and the "interactive digital TV support" (read go to sleep while it thinks about doing something), and even ntlhome pages does not clearly show this.

E4 was always supposed by Channel 4 to be a free to view type channel, much like BBCs digital TV offerrings, and indeed many other channels. Why then for these non subscripriont channels were they ever not in the base pack?