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Originally Posted by tizer2000uk
The UKONLINE 8mb offer is releasing in my area (Guildford) in March and many other exchanges are being unbundled at the same time. NTL havent a clue when their paltry 3mb capped service is being released and so I shall be moving across after having been with NTL for 5 years.
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Fair enough. NTL haven't announced exact dates for each area (which I personally think that they should, and they may do at some point, they did with the previous upgrades). Bear in mind that with ADSL, you can still get a crap connection even if you are next to the exchange. They need to do a survey before they can give you the 8Meg speed.
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The NTL capped service means that once you have used your allowance for the month it limits your speed to standard dial up for the rest of the month, a number of other countries such as Belgium have had the same system in place for a few years now.
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You know this how exactly? I am sure if NTL had announced it, CableForum or digitalspy would have the news somewhere. Enough NTL employees post on the two forums. In fact, if I remember the announcement of higher speeds by Simon Duffy, then they were looking at charging extra for the extra downloads (much the same as Mobile Phone Cos do with GRPS).
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As I only live less than 50 yards from the exchange, will only pay an extra £2.00 for a service that is 8 times faster and is "capped" (loosely speaking) to 500GB per month it would be pretty stupid of me to stay with NTL. Also all of my local area is currently on cable modems and so I will have alot of the contention ratio all to myself :o)
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Actually, that just means there will be a lower contention ratio..
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NTL really need to be able to keep up with the market as they have the infrastructure in place to be able to offer much higher speeds than ADSL, TELEWEST seem to be doing a better job but it is a pity that the two companies do not operate within the same areas as some healthy competition is sorely needed.
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The infrastructure can theoretically handle much higher speeds. The problem is that in practice, in large areas, it can't without upgrades.