Thread: [merged] Price increase
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Old 10-04-2004, 15:22   #350
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Re: Price increase
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Originally Posted by Pem
If £3 month means the difference between you having money problems or not, then you appear to be living on a knife edge - food, petrol and many other things you spend cash on can fluctuate by more than this each month.

However you look at it - 1mb BB is a luxary - there is nothing pathetic about pointing out people should not buy what they cannot afford - it's basic common sense.
I don't think that Kits is saying that £3 is going to put the family on the streets, but for a lot of people an extra £3 onto an already uncompetititve price, when compared with similar ADSL packages, means it's just that little bit too much to justify. People want value for money and the 1Meg service is now very much the opposite. If you live in an area lucky enough to get 2Meg ADSL, you can get 2Meg for less than NTL's 1Meg now, so where does the extra value for NTL premium price come from? Customer service - nope, good newsgroups servers - nope, great email service - nope, smooth trouble-free surfing - nope!

Goalposts move too. A few years ago any connection to the internet was a luxury, then it was ISDN, then it was cable/adsl, now it's the speed of your service and with companies doing 2, 4, 6Meg packages now, 1Meg is no longer a big luxury, but fast becoming the norm.
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