NTL price increase and their reasons

[[BorgMaster]]

Originally Posted by ianathuth

With speeeds available on xDSL you have to remember that line distance from the exchange affects the level of service that you can get and that not all exchanges supply all the service levels advertised. Line quality also affects your ability to obtain xDSL so you can live within a line distance that should support your requirements but line quality can mean you are unable to get that service.

Totally agree, and AFAIK there are no such restrictions for NTL's cable services. This is one of the main benefactors with Cable compared to ADSL. It can run much greater distances (as th'engineer's sig says I believe) Cable can beat ADSL when correctly managed and configured.

One point though, in the total amount of the peopl who have ADSL, only a small percentage suffer from upstream rate adaption (i.e.: less than 256kbps) and the percentage is around the 0.1% mark possibly less. Its definitely no hgiher than 1/1000.

[etccarmageddon]

bulldog 2mb

activation £1
monthly cost £38
usb modem £40

cost in 1st year £1+12*à ƒÆ’ƒâ€šÃ‚£38+à ƒâ€šÃ‚£40 = £509


NTL is 12 * £38 = £456 for a 1mb to 1.5mb service

[Teccie]

basically, lots of cheaper alternatives to NTL out there -so no reason for me to stay...

Incidently, have now gone 2 weeks without the channels on my digi tv that im payin for, had an engineer out a week ago - who installed a new box, then phoned faults up to say the channels were still not there (weds) and still not got em. So thats being cancelled too.... although going off experiences from friends, ntl wont let u cancel - it took my friend 3 months for them to realise he no longer wanted his bb - infact when he left the house, it was still active, despite 3 months earlier cancelling the direct debit and having written confirmation off ntl saying that his bb was cancelled.... weirdos... left hand and right hand not speaking again....