[myutopia]

I had my telephone bill from ntl today and noticed I was paying £16 alone for service charges. I only have broadband and telephone with them so this seemed really steap for the telephone.

Turns out that the charge levied for not using direct debit has risen from £2 to £4, I'm a bit confused by this as it shouldn't cost them any more to service an account not on direct debit than one that is. I mean even if this was because of late payments I don't see how it would cost everyone not on DD an extra £4 a month to service them.

This seems to me to be a scam to extract more money from people while doing sod all.

OK I could go onto direct debit but last time I was on it with them they took over a £100 out of my account when they cocked up my bill, this happened twice in 6 months and since then I just don't trust them.

Hence forth I've decided they can go and get stuffed, after 10 minutes in a queue waiting to get through I asked if I could cancel my account over the phone, which I'm pleased to say I can.

Before I do, I've decided to look around and see who the better deals are with.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what packages they are with. BT fusion interests me but I'm not sure it's worthe the extra.

I'm not bothered about the phone too much, I hardly use it anyway, as for the internet, I'm not bothered about high speeds as I don't tend to download much, just mainly browsing and a bit of emails.

I reckon it's going to take me a while to ferret out the better deals but the sooner I do the sooner I can get shot of this useless lot NTL. Any help or any pointers on good deals or combinations of packages would be most appreciated.


thanks