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Originally Posted by Neil
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ntl's initial speed increase came as a knee jerk reaction to TW's original speed increase, they haven't led the market here, they've just taken TW's idea & made it faster-not market leading IMO.
I thought I had-there are cureently exchanges that can't get it, but the 'coming soon' is a reality, not a figment of their imagination a la ntl.
But we are talking about "Market Leaders" here in this discussion, & Bulldog are exactly that. I think they were the 1st ISP to install their own hardware in BT's exchanges, & offer 2 meg DSL, when the other DSL ISPs were waiting from the nod from BT-Now that's market leading!
I don't agree-we are talking about market leading, & ntl are not that whatever way you look at it.
They followed TW's speeds increase, their DTV doesn't offer the functionality that Sky's does, they have only just got around to introducing Spam filters on their mail servers (when most other ISPs have had them for yonks), their email 'service' has been poor (to say the least!) for the best part of 18 months, their webspace package is poor compared to what most other ISPs offer (scripts etc)
That's not a market leader, & not a company that offers a viable product anymore-most other providsers offer far more for your money IMO. |
Well Telewest took ntls idea of making 128k faster or 512k to 600k a few years back then........what a crazy excuse just admit ntl were copied by Telewest last time round.
Coming soon is not a reality for some BT exchanges, it is a figment of imagination BT have been dragging their feet over enabling ADSL exchanges for years, they know some parts of the network cant cope even after an exchange is enabled and dont have plans to resolve these problems.
So is introducing speeds of 1Mb for £17.99 2Mb for £24.99 accross the network for every subscriber who wants it.
Thats pureley opinion.
TW followed ntl age old speed increases, Their DTV does offer the functionality (usability) not features (like all Interactive thanks to Sky monopolistic behavious and OFCOMS lack of balls) infact ntl offer some functionality far better than Sky as mentioned earlier. Which 'all ISPs' Spam filter I know BT dont or Didnt, I had far more crap from my BT closed world account than ntl, 50mb of webspace for free not bad........I dont know of many ISPs that give scripting space for free its a premium product. E-mail again.........its certainally no worse than BT closed world or Connect.
Given my £74.49
Suggest another way I can get
Cheaper line rental
Full DTV Package Sports Movies
2Mb Broadband
Offer me MORE than that for my money.........looks viable to me.