Merged: London Broadband.

[rippedoff]

This quote from Dallas_Davis on Digital Spy Forum:

"It seems after all that NTL:Home will be releasing Broadband and interactive services in the South-East (including South West area) of London.

I contacted NTL:Home representative on Friday 27th June 2003 and they told me that "broadband and interactives" services will be coming to your area within the next 5 months. So watch this space? So expect our upgrade service very soon.

So people who live in the Ex-Videotron areas like Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth, Brent (Harrow and Wembley), Lewisham and surrouding areas. Dont give up. NTL is coming!

From what i gather " They have been told to get the Broadband and interactive" services in order before Christmas 2003"

Well........... can anyone out there confirm or deny? Or is this just another barrowload of bullshit?

[binary]

I'll give them until the end of this year, then I'm going to exercise my consumer power and get ADSL.

Also, whilst not that important, I'd like to be able to 'press the red button' at some point. So maybe I'll change to Sky as well.

rippedoff - I'm in Southwark - and like Lambeth we don't get broadband or interactive TV. I am led to believe there are some broadband triallists in the area, but as I understand it the problem is that the network is a patchy mix off good and bad quality coaxial cable under the streets, which is pretty expensive to rewire.

See this thread on NTHW.com if you havn't already (though it might be gone tomorrow - July 1st - when NTHW.com dies).

[Mark W]

not sure where in london they are but there is broadband being rolled out in london containing xxxxx premises in Downham, Mottingham, Grove Park, Hither Green and Forest Hill and covers elements of the following postcodes: SE3, SE9, SE12, SE23, BR1 4xx and BR1 5xx.

in the same vein, am not sure exactly when. but if its not already avaliable then it will be 'imminent'.

hope this is good news to some folk out there

[binary]

The CLT is in town, good work!

I'm not in any of those postcodes, though it's getting closer! I'll reisist the urge to publicise my exact postcode in the knowledge that it won't make a roll out happen any faster.

Originally posted by Mark W
in the same vein, am not sure exactly when. but if its not already avaliable then it will be 'imminent'.

Can you clarify what you mean in the above sentence Mark- are you referring just to the postcodes you cited, or to the NTL network in London as a whole?

[Undisputedtruth]

Originally posted by binary


rippedoff - I'm in Southwark - and like Lambeth we don't get broadband or interactive TV. I am led to believe there are some broadband triallists in the area, but as I understand it the problem is that the network is a patchy mix off good and bad quality coaxial cable under the streets, which is pretty expensive to rewire.

See this thread on NTHW.com if you havn't already (though it might be gone tomorrow - July 1st - when NTHW.com dies).

I'm in Southwark too - I'm not too optimistic on Southwark getting bb this year.

I know this is a stupid question

Could some tell me where Blimey (or sometning that sounds like thqt) is in London CHeers

[BBKing]

Bromley? That's in Kent, right on the south-east edge of London. Blimey doesn't sound much like it, but it doesn't sound much like anything!

[Stuart]

Originally posted by BBKing
Bromley? That's in Kent, right on the south-east edge of London. Blimey doesn't sound much like it, but it doesn't sound much like anything!

And it already has Broadband...

[Stuart]

Originally posted by dieselking
I know this is a stupid question

Could some tell me where Blimey (or sometning that sounds like thqt) is in London CHeers

Why?

Originally posted by scastle
Why?

Because someone I knew as just moved to that area in London, that's why

[Stuart]

Originally posted by dieselking
Because someone I knew as just moved to that area in London, that's why

Well, as BBKing says, the nearest sounding place to that is Bromley (where I live ).

Originally posted by scastle
Well, as BBKing says, the nearest sounding place to that is Bromley (where I live ).

Thanks Scastle (& BBKing), I think I must have got the wrong name from somewhere because thiis place is in London, Cheers

[binary]

Originally posted by Mark W
not sure where in london they are but there is broadband being rolled out in london containing xxxxx premises in Downham, Mottingham, Grove Park, Hither Green and Forest Hill and covers elements of the following postcodes: SE3, SE9, SE12, SE23, BR1 4xx and BR1 5xx.

in the same vein, am not sure exactly when. but if its not already avaliable then it will be 'imminent'.

hope this is good news to some folk out there

Quoted from Mark W's post in this thread.

I'm starting this thread as a continuation of this old NTHW.com thread, "Waiting for London Broadband", which, like all ntl product-related threads on NTHW.com, will shortly dissappear.

(I was criticised when I tried to migrate the discussion from that thread to this forum's "BB in South London This Year?" thread, as the issue is not merely one south of the river. This new thread addresses that.)

[binary]

(1) Can I suggest that we continue discussion of Broadband's imminent arrival (or lack thereof) to this thread, "Still waiting for London Broadband".

The reason being that the issue is London-wide. Indeed the issue of lack of broadband is wider than that, but the new thread can focus on London.

(I was critised when I tried to move the discussion from this old NTHW.com thread, "Waiting for London Broadband" (which will shortly be deleted due to NTHW.com changes), to this forum's "BB in South London this year?" thread as the issue is not merely one south of the river. This new thread addresses that problem.)


Also this thread is veering wildly off-topic! On which note I shall say this...

(2) dieselking- Your mate might be living in a place called Bromley-by-Bow, which is in the east end of London.
However (confusingly) Bromley (the place), to the southeast of London, has a Kent postal address, but is within Greater London and is in the London Borough of Bromley. It is not within the boundaries of Kent County Council.
Bromley (the place) is obviously within the London Borough of Bromley.

Many places on the periphery of Greater London are in a sitiation similar to this, both being a part of (Greater) London and also notionally a part of an adjacent county (at least in a postal address sense). Bromley is regarded a town in it's own right, even though there are no green fields that seperate it from the sprawl of London. (Thats not to say that there's no green field though, as any Londoner will tell you there are plenty of significant open spaces, woods and parks in London.)

That answer probably confuses things more than it clears them up though!

Binary, good man, my note was not meant to be critical if you meant me that is, but meant as a suggestion maybe I could have made that point clearer.

I think folk forget the Greater London is a huge area with God knows thousands of ntl customers and that some counties bordering have ntl customers that also look forward to receiving full ntl services. I agree the issue should be kept prominent and not allowed to die.