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Originally Posted by Salu
I would imagine this is a commercial decision to ensure that they can stay ahead in the game. With ADSL2 round the corner they need to be able to upgrade at short notice. Also they will have scored points by going to 10MB rather than ADSL's 8mb. They have probably announced the upgrade for the 3MB customers first to preserve the revenue stream until the upgrade. Otherwise people may downgrade first.
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Of course, the speed of the connection and the price of it are the 2 main things people look at.
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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
Ok time for some serious cr*p cutting
Anyone wanting an unlimited account at 10 meg is a leech. Chances are they sell dvd's (I disclaim that im not refering to me) and chances are they dont sell them cheap so £70 plus say £15 for giganews so its £85 for something that will earn the pirates £100's is not a bad outlay
also those that are not pirates downloading say 100 gig of whatever can easily have £250 worth of dvds £1,000 + worth of music cds or rediculasly stupid amounts of software worth god knows
I do not condone this but lets be straight and not full of poop its why people want unlimited
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True point for the bulk of people, there are exceptions. But I think everyone is off track the quote from NTL I read suggested there will be unlimited packages but not at 10mbit, the unlimited packages would be lower speeds.
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Originally Posted by Mick
The thing is though, ntl and Telewest are not in direct competition with each other, since you cannot get Telewest services in an ntl area and vice versa - Please also don't forget that there is an expected merger of the two cable giants, just around the corner.  |
Percieved competition but it makes telewest look better as they can point out to their customers they are receiving value for money by making comparisons to NTL.
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Originally Posted by slowcoach
OK, latest from the “Bloke in the Pub”.
ntl are planning on implementing the first wave 10Mb/s (3Mb customers) to undermine the BT 8Mb/s implementation in October, thereby negating the BT publicity.
The first phase will be to test the system suitability especially over the Christmas period when VOD is expected to add extra pressure to the system.
It may be decided to soft cap this first phase initially to provide better figures for judging requirements when other users are moved up to 10Mb/s.
If all goes well over Christmas lower tier customers will be switched over early in the New Year, it is expected that this will be spread over a couple of months with any fine tuning necessary being done area by area.
Finally, the unlimited range will be put on-line later in 2006, a range of speeds will be available uncapped with the top speed being 5Mb/s uncapped. Prices of uncapped 1Mb/s and 2Mb/s will remain as they are at present, the new 5Mb/s uncapped will probably be priced at £37.99 same as the top tier 10Mb/s 75Gig capped product.
The upgrade is being spread out to ensure that there is no degregation of service along the way, ntl are confident that recent upgrades to the system will be able to cope easily with only minor overnight work being required in the odd area.
To increase revenue ntl will be releasing a range of T-shirts and Sweat Shirts imprinted with “Kick @rse with ntl 10Mb/s Broadband"  Sorry, made that last bit up  |
Thats a good product line up if true, caters for everyone.