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Originally Posted by tizer2000uk
Its a sad state of affairs if NTL decide not to provide a 2mb+ service in the near future as BT and its affiliates will steal the march yet again on speed for good.
This coupled with the fact that NTL are not willing to provide the other half of 6 back to back terrace houses for whatever reason, thats right the house behind my girlfriends has broadband and she cant have it because the wont go the fifteen metres through a car park and along a footpath! My 5 years of business with NTL is shortly coming to an end.
Ah well!
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The short-sightedness of all this is NTL think they don't have any competition. The distance-from-exchange problems you get with ADSL are even worse at 1mb than they are at 512k, so I don't imagine we'll be seeing any significant offering of 2mb ADSL for some time to come. And of course, Telewest covers a different area to NTL, so their 2mb service isn't a threat.
What NTL really don't seem to have factored in is that other technologies offering super-high-speed broadband via powerlines or wirelessly are proving themselves in tests, and seem to be able to offer customers an entry-level service that makes NTL 'broadband' seem positively pedestrian. If they don't move to establish themselves in the market sooner rather than later, they are going to start losing custom hand over fist. And they think they've got cashflow problems now ...