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Originally Posted by Hell's Child
Can you realisticly say this will affect the "average" user? The majority of 150k (300k) use it because it is comparable on price with dial up, but they get a faster service that doesn't tie the phone up. The cap is irrelivant as, not only would it be difficlut to hit the 1GB limit, but also very unlikley!
If it's your opinion, i'm not arguing with it, I am not saying you are wrong i'm just pointing out that when you add some figures to the equasion, the number of people it would have a detrimental effect to or make worthwhile to go to adsl is quite small.
Again, this will not affect the avarage user who tend to use the 600k service for DOWNLOADING.
These are the people it does effect.. i've already admitted that!!!
As ntl have recently started sending usage letters this has and will probably become more of an issue than it has been since the cap was introduced.
Bulldog....ÂÂƚ£15.99 a month for 150K?? why not pay £2 more and get double the speed??? To me, at least IMO, it doesn't seem logical that somebody would do that.
I have already mentioned my marketing dept. has told me the cap will be reviewed in line with the speed upgrades so I have looked a the picture.
We only have 3 teirs... why should they double the 600k for example to 1.2meg and only charge £25-28 when the other cable co's charge £35?
They have doubled the lower end and not increased the price.
You seem happy with what they have done with the 1mb, but are unhappy with the cap. But, with greatest respect, this isn't a discussion about the cap, it's about the increase in the speeds.
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1. I would have thought NTL wasnt just after keeping customers but gaining more and hopefully some from adsl.
2. Bulldog primetime was an example directed at the higher tiers not the lowend package. remember theres a lot more adsl providers than there are cable. You can get unrestricted 256k ADSL from other providers @ £1.50 over NTL's future 300k.
3. Obviously everyone will look forward to increased cap and increased upstream but till theres any official announcement they are just nothing more than maybe we would get them.
4. As for the 600k sorry, Iv allways known it as 512 even though I allways had 600k when I was on that tier. so to double it I meant double 512.
5. I fail to see why NTL should be comparing against other cable providers, who currently bear no competition against NTL. ADSL is your competition and so you need to be looking @ what adsl is offering.
As I said its a move in the right direction, but I had 1mb before I dropped to back to the middle tier. I see now after looking that I can get adsl 1mb for £26 no restriction. And as I can hook up for 3 months contract with line activation at £29 it may well be worth me trying it. And then as long as my line can take it I can get 2mb later when I need it at less £'s than NTL's 1.5mb. Then theres the potential of the 4mb and 6mb tiers thats becoming available, although currently only in central london. We of course hope this spreads further afield and look forward to a future lowest tier of 500k from both cable and ADSL.
So despite this increase ADSL seems to remain ahead of cable.
as for announcing any raise in the cap how long does it take to work out that as downstream speed has increased by 25%-100% that the guidance cap should also be increased with in the same region at least. meaning at max you would increase the guidance cap to 2GB. The cap is NTL's worst point and therefore they should have kicked the increase round the table of ideas at the same time. The whole threads response would have been far more positive if they had.