Just had a great example of how petty NTL can really be. We've been with them for years, and currently get TV, dialup Internet, and telephone (2 lines) through them. I did have a few teething problems with NTL at first (the conversation where I told their head supervisor to send qualified engineers and not untrained monkeys round to install the cables still raise a smile), but since then they've got their act together and I have to say that they've been fantastic... everything I've wanted from them has been done right first time and nothing has been too much trouble.
Anyway, the time has come for myself and Mrs Loco to move to a new pad. We've done all the donkeywork with regards to the move, and the only thing left to sort out was our telephone/Interweb/television connections at the new place. I duly went onto the NTL website and bugger, they don't do our new area... which is a bit of a blow cos I would quite happily have taken my services with me.
So I go to the BT website and did some digging about on phonelines, and I did some investigating on Pipex for a broadband connection, and I then went to Sky to work out what TV I wanted.
Except the link Sky Digital doesn't work from my NTL Internet. Now I thought at first that Rupert Murdoch had been investing in dodgy servers, so I thought I'd use an alternative dial up to check - and lo and behold it worked first time.
Yes, it appears that I good friends at NTL have blocked access to the
www.ordersky.com website!
How bloody cynical is that?