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Re: NTL October Phone Price Changes
When I first got cable, back in about 99, it was because they were the cheapest thing going. For the same line rental as BT -- £9.77pm -- you got not only a phone line but analogue cable TV as well. The call charges were roughly the same as BTs, with the added bonus that local cable-to-cable calls were scott free, no matter how long you were on the phone.
Hell, if you were lucky enough to be in an NTL area (I wasn't), you even got free 24/7 dial-up Internet.
How times change. Having a cable telephone is now clearly more expensive than a BT line, and that's before you take into account any alternative dialers that you can use. Three pence per minute for a local call is a joke, as is 5ppm for 0845 numbers.
How can it possibly be cheaper for me to call my next-door neighbour on my mobile than it is to do so from my home phone? I can't explain it, but once these price rises go through, that will be the case.
To top it all off, NTL don't even offer caller display (which BT have done practically forever), nor can they tell me if they ever plan on offering such a service.
In summary: NTL broadband -- excellent. Digital TV -- actually pretty good these days. Telephone -- atrocious.
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