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Originally Posted by popper
hmm, so were in any of this thread, is anyone saying they want to get NTL PAYG services without paying for them?.
making invalid assumptions are you!.
the guy was asking about the perfectly valid 'free to air' channels nothing more, and AFAIK NTL are required by UK law to provide these channels to any UK resident able to receave them with a working DVB-C box/card.
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I would like to see this law that is always rolled out everytime this discussion airs.
The fact is you should have the STB collected if you have disconnected the service. If you have got the STB through other means you are not supposed to use it on the NTL system if you are not paying for a subscription.
The channels are not free to air, that is on the Terrestrial side not on cable. NTL do not provide "freeview or free to air", they have by-pass units fitted on STB's to enable customers to record the channels 1-5 whilst watching cable, this was seen as an added extra, something that Sky boxes didn't provide unless you had your roof ariel plugged into the Sky box. Unfortunately people, see that this is provided as freeview or by law, whatever!
It isn't either.
Yes NTL do care about these STB's as well,(i know before it is said) they are making more of an effort to retrieve the STB's as it costs money to replace the ones that havent been collected. No they don't dump them either they are reused.