[Teccie]

Okay the price increase came into effect from today, 1st June, yet still no speed increase.

After a bit of searching i found the letter regarding the price increase and there reasons behind it. It was to keep inline with the competition, yet for some reason NTL in there infinite wisdom compared their service, a cable based BB service with 2 of bt's ADSL services, namely BT yahoo and BT Broadband. Why did they ignore the only other Cable based BB available, name Telewest. Indeed BT BB is more expensive than NTL and Telewest. But its not the same service, its ADSL not cable
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Lets compare at todays price and speed, NTL with another cable BB service, Telewest.
Telewest's 1.5MB bb connection is £35 yet NTL's 1mb bb connection is £38. Okay so the speed is allegedly going to be 1.5mb, but when ? NTL say summer... lol, good going NTL, you know when its forcast
so why not tell us or better still why not put the price up when its released? k so at the minute we are paying £3 more for 50% less on our connection. Yet NTL have told us how the price increase was neccessary to keep in line with the competition. So why put the price way beyond the direct competition.

Okay then, if they insist on comparing with ADSL (a differnt service all together) then lets compare. Yes BT is the most expensive, but if u shop around, because u can with adsl, u'll find an equal service being offered, at the 1mbit barrier for £30 (eg: aol). So NTL are £8 dearer for the same 1mbit service. So to price inline with the competition NTL should infact decrease
their prices to £30 for 1mbit, oh and if u insist put it back to £35 inline with the competition (Telewest) once the 1.5mbit comes into effect.

NTL we are not fools, if u want to compare prices then do so properly, dont compare your service with the most expensive u can find. You aint fooling
anyone other than urselves.