BT Line rental: £11.50
SKY Subscription(Lowest pack): £19.50
BT Broadband 512K: £15.00
Total: £46.00
NTL Family pack and telephone line rental: £19.50
NTL Broadband 512K: £14.99
Total: £35.49
Telewest's version of family pack known as supreme is £15.50 per month which is £4 cheaper than SKY and NTL. NTL will probably lower this to £15.50 next year. And Wight Cable's is also £15
BT Anonymous caller rejection: £4 per month
NTL Anonymous Caller rejection: £1.75 per month
Telewest Anonymous caller Reject: £1.50
Wight Cable Anonymous caller reject: £1.00
New BT line installation: £75 to £99.99
NTL: £50 to £74.99
Telewest: £10 to £50 (usually £25)
Wight Cable: £50
BT Together option 3: £29.99 (Including line rental)
Telewest Talk unlimited: £26.50 (Including line rental)
BT Line rental: £11.50
Telewest line rental: £10.50 together with free weekend calls.
Wight Cable standard: No line rental.
SKY Customer services 0870: 8p per minute
Telewest Customer service: Free
NTL Customer service: Free
Wight Cable: Free
BT Customer service: Free (Although a very long queue)
Other advantages:
Telewest and NTL accept debit card payments, SKY and BT only accept major credit cards.
Teleport: A bright new service coming very soon, hopefully, this would wipe the smile of SKY's face!
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Originally Posted by andygrif
Where do you get your maths from? By my addition a Family Pack TV service, a standard phone line and a 2mb broadband line costs pretty much the same with Sky, BT and an ISP as it does with NTL. Also with Sky's proposal to buy Easynet (and the mumblings about Homechoice) Sky is in the position that NTL is currently in, able to offer discounted triple-play services.
You don't explain why they will get fed up and move from a system that offers hundreds of channels to a system that offers five. If they did get fed up enough to move to terrestrial it would be more likekly they would go an buy a 30 quid FreeView box than go back to analaog. And that IS what the government wants.
FreeView has good reception for the vast majority of the country - and by the time of the digital switchover it will be as good as the analog coverage.
Please define "favourite". I assume you mean most subscribed, in which case it can't "remain favourite" as it is currently the least subscribed of the three options to receive digital TV.
You're right, the NewCo might being rolling out more cabled areas, but I seriously doubt it. Laying cables is limited these days as it costs more to do than they get back - the reason? Becuase people prefer FreeView or Sky, not cable.
Ah....and the end of the world is nigh too.
Sky have been around for 16 years. There are 25 million homes in the UK, nearly 8 million of which have Sky. I doubt they're going anywhere anytime soon.
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