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Originally Posted by orangebird
This was never in the t&cs at all. ntl not charging you if you moved to a non-servicable area before your first 12 months were up was a discretionary action which was never documented. In January 2005, they chose not to use this discretionary action and make it part of their t&cs that you had to pay the minimum cost for a full 12 months. The problem being that the cost of installing a new sub needs to be covered, which it certainly isn't by the average RGU in the first year. I think they should just sell their stbs to the customer like Sky do and get on with it now.  |
Hi OB.
Yeah, as iv been saying, over the longer term, it can only be a good thing if NTL:tw were to open up their network, even if it were to so called select providers, after all that way the commercial incentive would then be geared towards giving the users new and sellable options and at the select providers cost (we all know its eventually pasted onto the user in the end).
even before you take into consideration the future select commercial partys offerings, PCI DVB-C(2),USB,and even STBs with IPTV DVB direct to your PC at £99, theres a lot of perfectly good and working , unused (ex) C&W/NTL/TW STBs out there, that even today are still in the current computer system that if you were to reconnect them to the network NTL:tw could reactivate/associate to a new PAYG cable offering for instance,and start collecting new profits.
tap into an already existing cheap system, a simple paypoint card or even a mobile phone type payment card for instance.
everyone wins.