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Originally Posted by themelon
An ntl package works out cheaper than having a Sky and BT Line which would cost now £50.50 the comparative ntl package now is £49.50 I believe. Sky Worl has more channles....mostly shopping, and garbage that the wide majority of people never watch, all the most watched channels are available on ntls packages.
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Be fair, The Sky / BT price of £50.50 is the new price that BT is introducing giving customers who take it the BT Together Option 1 service which is 5.5p for calls of up to one hour evenings and weekends. The nearest NTL alternative to this is their 6p plan which costs £2 extra making the NTL example £51.50 (£1 dearer) with all calls being dearer with NTL.
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Originally Posted by themelon
The Phone IS NOT Free it is a budled package of which the user has not option to cancel the phone (unless its unavialble). In my opinion this is a major disdvantage to NTL Cable TV market potential, as many people wont want to switch phone numbers or providers and dont want the hassle of changing providers. People will want Digital TV these people will always choose Sky over ntl....and there is a lot of these people around!
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I agree that NTL should not force DTV customers to take the telephone line and should simply offer a range of TV packages that are £9.50 less than at present with the customer having the option to have a NTL telephone line if they want it. The question is though, would NTL gain or lose customers if they did unbundle thepackages.