[LostintheNW]

Monkey those prices increased inline with inflation are acceptable - but NTL just charges what it feels, and seeing as the 1meg service is fast becoming one of the slowest speeds NTL are going to lose a lot of customers.

I agree with you Charlie, its just NTLs way of getting people on to the lowere speeds as they cannot cope with the demand on the network, but at the end of the day they shouldn't release products they cannot cope with. The network in Manchester used to be one of the best available, that is until NTL came along and fahked it all up - I love watching a badly streamed MPEG picture full of pixelation and jittery sound on my TV - reminds me of when I had dialup and watching streaming video.

For what we pay to NTL we can get double the channels on Sky, and ok they maybe mostly crap (but the ones on NTL are too!) but the fact is we still have the choice - even the 2nd subscription as come down, and even though you have to buy their digiboxes outright and pay for any maintenance after a year - still cheaper than NTL - we had one box when we had sky - I've had 6 from NTL since we upgraded to digital when it came in our area.

I for one hope this drives people away from NTL and on to another platform, be it sky or freeview - then when they crap company goes bust someone else can come along and do a better job, certainly can't do any worse