Be nice to see these speed increases arrive and at better prices, with no restrictions.
The 2 meg line was rumoured to be arriving last July-Septemper from some NTL staff but it never showed.
Now when cable first started the plain truth was there wasnt much choice in broadband, if you were lucky enough to be in a broadband area it was one or the other available but not too often both. This is now very far from the truth and cable needs to revise the policy that adsl is not competition.
ADSL 2 meg line is £35-£40 depending on provider, this is the current top level adsl (except london which has 4 meg).
NTL 1.5 meg is £37.99, and is the current top cable service except in blue yonder/telewest areas that have 3 meg allready. note NTL is one of the biggest cable sections in the country, if not the biggest.
As you can see here you can allready get more for less elsewhere. You should also note at the adsl prices above the bandwidth is in no way restricted, unlike NTL's 1 GB a day policy. I mean If i was to update my Router alone it is a good 2 GB. Then we have 4 x windows update and it goes on and on.
Now for more rumours
ADSL is expected to drop further next year and introduce the 4 meg deal on a national basis where possibly available.
This is apparently going to be a 4 meg down 400 or 800k up and is expected to drop in around the £40 marker, doing that can only have a knock on effect on dropping the lower tiers prices if not instantly it will not be long before it happens.
Of course you should by now be able to see where I am going with this, that unfortunatly in the broadband arena NTL has fallen behind and even with rumors for next year is still behind.
I wonder how interesting the next year will be in the battle of the BB providers
And yes I am talking as an X NTL user who had cable since the beginning and changed all my services after several years of being with them.
Come on NTL win me back, and I'm in no way desperate to leave my current providors of com services.