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Originally Posted by [BorgMaster]
I'm afraid not, some of their services do work like this. Primetime as its termed, but their normal Alltime services run at 2mbps all the time, and they are more expensive as you might expect.
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It is the primetime service that is comparable in price to the NTL service, and as it was suggested that Bulldog was an example of a better priced competitor to NTL, I felt this was a valid point.
For all NTLs faults (and they do have a few
) they do provide a reasonable level of availability, and a reasonable speed (I tend to get 1M out of my service most of the time) in the majority of cases.
They may not be the cheapest, but in terms of what you get, they are still competative in the market.
They have always looked at BT as their main competitor, and this is probably valid, as other ISPs have to pay BT for the line usage.
NTL <probably> don't care about AOL, as they offer BB over NTLs cables, and I'm sure NTL get a nice payment for it, without the hassle of supporting it or supplying the kit.
As always - just my 2c (and no - I do not think NTL are perfect - far from it, they are just not any worse than most other ISPs I have come across)