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Old 23-07-2006, 15:39   #71
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Re: Sky Broadband
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Originally Posted by handyman
Virgin ADSL?
Umm....

When did ntl start supplying ADSL down their own phone lines?

Actually wtf does being able to get Virgin ADSL have to do with being in an ntl DTV area? You can get that everywhere?

This thread is becoming a bit of a slanging match which is unfortunate. Sky's deal is very good for those in the covered areas and will no doubt take a lot of custom from cable if it doesn't react appropriately.

I think there have been some efforts to detract away from all this and far too many one sided arguments. Both sides have their good and bad points but what Sky have done is disrupt the market by offering competitively priced deals.

I think people seem to be distracted by the capping, the fact remains that if it suits the way you do things even the offnet deal at £18/month for 40GB is very good, and the £5 / £10 8-40GB and 16GB-unlimited deals are competitive.

Likewise if you don't want a phone line the ntl a la carte deal becomes more attractive, and being able to download hundreds of GB a month for £18 or £25 a month might appeal to some, especially if you don't have digital TV or are satisfied with Freeview.

Comparing like for like unless ntl are bunding 10Mbit for £10/month in with thier TV service they are not offering a product at the moment that competes. I know they will be enhancing their product line shortly though.

Not sure either why there is the need to dump on or big up one side or the other, at the end of the day I really don't care who wins the broadband 'race', Sky make plenty of money out of their TV and other operations and if ntl were to see a significant market share drop the people at the top might reevaluate and consider getting people in to run the company who know **** from elbow and care about customer service and engineering.

The main difference from my point of view in the two companies at the moment is that Sky are prepared to speculate to accumulate and are investing heavily while ntl are continuing an ongoing program of outsourcing and cost cutting.

Here's hoping that the need to compete reverses this trend and that customers are the winners in all of this as to be honest the bar has been raised and now cable needs to show its' hand and keep up.
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