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Originally Posted by zovat
And you will be able to rub it into the faces of those who cannot get NTL 
(I told my Boss that this was happening and he called me a jammy B%$^$%^ - and he is right, I actually feel that I am lucky to live in an NTL broadband area...) |
10 months time, ADSL will be storming ahead in speeds well into and beyond 3Mbps, and that's assuming ADSL2/2+ isn't out by then and large chunks of cities aren't LLU'd exchanges (which offers far more speed if they are).
Nice speeds/prices from NTL, but I wouldn't consier myself lucky to be in an NTL area. Far from it, it's been nothing but hell an misery. I wish I was in a Telewest area personally (though I'm lucky enough to also be in an area with an excellent ADSL exchange. It even has a LLU service through EasyNet though I went with PlusNet who use BT for ADSL).
I fully expect ADSL prices to drop further in the next 3 to 6 months, plus speed increases. SDSL is also on the increase and dropping rapidly in price. Won't be long before it hits consumer level.
I'd be interested to see where NTL go with network expansion though. Expand the cable network or (as has been reported), move into ADSL to get new customers instead. NTL's current cable network limits them to a finite number of customers (7 million I read), and from what I gather they are not planning to lay more cable as ADSL is far cheaper.