[merged] Price increase

[Charlie_Bubble]

Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

for the same price as the NTL 1mb service you can get 2mb from Bulldog.

Yep, and I checked if I could get it the other day and I can. If this price rise does happen I'll drop NTL, move to SKY, BT and a decent ADSL provider. Oh well, been 5 years with NTL. Been waiting long enough for interactive TV. Seems I'll be leaving them before I even get it!

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

for the same price as the NTL 1mb service you can get 2mb from Bulldog.

bluddddy annoying when you cant get adsl though

[Charlie_Bubble]

I can't believe they're doing this kind of price hike for 1Mb to be honest. The email servers are ropey, the news servers are utter crap and there's a download cap. Are they trying to force people to leave? Pay nearly £40 for a service which, when compared with many ADSL packages wouldn't be worthwhile if the price was the same, but it's much higher, what's the point at all?

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by Hell's Child

**hides away so nobody catches him**

1MB is going up to £37.99. 600k is staying the same as is 150k.


This will be announced to customers 7th April.

You heard it here 1st.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

I guess I'll be phoning NTL to downgrade to the 600k service then.

[th'engineer]

Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

for the same price as the NTL 1mb service you can get 2mb from Bulldog.

You also have to ask what you are allowed to download with bulldog limits etc

check what the cap is with them, dont jump out of the frying pan into the fire

[Nutty]

I wouldn't mind a small price increase if they increased the upload bandwidth to be similar to adsl. i.e. 600/256, and maybe a bit more on the 1mbit. 1Mb/300 or so ?

[Motorman]

Hey NOONOO, I posted these prices increases on DS.
I'm sorry you dont understand them, lets make things easy;

All the Call Features (except Voicemail plus) are increasing in price by 50%.
This is what i dont agree with because they are network services which dont actually cost the company anything, so this is a massive (unjustified) fatcat hike.

1mb broadband is increasing in price from £34-99 to £37-99.

The UnLtd dial-up internet service which costs £10 is increasing to £12-49.

The Pay as you go internet service which is 1 penny per minute at all times of the day is increasing in price to 3p per minute peak rate, 2ppm evenings and 1ppm all weekend (+5p connection charge).

Customers can cancel their contracts if they are still in the first year of service AND they give notice within 30 days of the price increase

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by th'engineer

You also have to ask what you are allowed to download with bulldog limits etc

check what the cap is with them, dont jump out of the frying pan into the fire

Bulldog only cap their new "economy" packages I believe, the prime-time and all-time products have NO cap at all.

[N00N00]

Originally Posted by Motorman

Hey NOONOO, I posted these prices increases on DS.
I'm sorry you dont understand them, lets make things easy;

All the Call Features (except Voicemail plus) are increasing in price by 50%.
This is what i dont agree with because they are network services which dont actually cost the company anything, so this is a massive (unjustified) fatcat hike.

[/b]

Hey, I only said i didn't understand half of them, but thanks for clarifying things. It never clicked that NTL could possibly be dumb enough to charge 3p/min for internet access during the day so i assumed you were talking about some strange and rare phone package.

None of the price rises will have any impact on me becasue I've long since cancelled the base pack and voicemail and I'm on 150K.

nice to see that dial up is now £12.50, and the base pack is 18quid or so. If you have both these services then the total price rise since they were introduced has been over £20! I.e they now cost three times as much!

Thanks for posting the price rises, my sympathies to anyone who is effected by them.

[th'engineer]

Originally Posted by dellwear

Bulldog only cap their new "economy" packages I believe, the prime-time and all-time products have NO cap at all.

Thank you for the update its only fair that we compare like with like, so which package are similar to NTL.
In the following:
E-mail, webspace, customer service, speed, reliability, proxies

Think you will find it hard to find someone similar to NTL

[Caspar]

So what do us 1mb users get for our extra few pound price increase? Better service, increased reliability, three-tone printed statements , a christmas card...? Has someone already asked this obvious question, lol!

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Caspar

So what do us 1mb users get for our extra few pound price increase? Better service, increased reliability, three-tone printed statements , a christmas card...? Has someone already asked this obvious question, lol!

Same as you get now-pathetic email/poor interactive on your DTV that locks up your STB/poor picture quality on your DTV/brief picture blackouts/crackly sound-what a bargain, where do I sign up?-oh, I don't need to!!

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by th'engineer

Thank you for the update its only fair that we compare like with like, so which package are similar to NTL.
In the following:
E-mail, webspace, customer service, speed, reliability, proxies

Think you will find it hard to find someone similar to NTL

Their prime-time and all-time packages are an internet connection with no proxys etc. There is no cap and a faster upload than Ntl's 150 and 600k options (256) The reliability is excelent, I've not had a slow days browsing yet (since Jan), but they do provide an 0845 dialup service incase of a fault. They do several different speeds depending on where you are and you may need to buy a modem, I paid 20.00 for mine a few examples:

Bulldog's AllTime 500 was recently crowned Best Consumer Broadband service in UK and is now available at the special price of £21.99/mth, offering savings of more than £5/mth against similar 512 kbps services from BT, AOL and Freeserve.

Now, for a limited period, AllTime 500 comes with a free modem - or the option of a free month.

or

For a limited period, Bulldog is offering its AllTime 1000 service for just £32.99/mth with a connection charge of just £1, depending on your location**. It differs from our PrimeTime services in that you get top performance around the clock, not just during off-peak hours.

Both these are FULLTIME products you are on the same speed tarrif all day everyday.

Then there's the primetime products:

For just £24.99/mth you'll get up to 1 Mbps downstream speed during off-peak hours. At other times (that's 8am to 6pm weekdays) you still enjoy standard broadband at up to 512 kbps.

In other words, it's the ideal service if during weekday work hours you won't be using the service a great deal or don't require top speed. Order now and you'll also get a free USB modem, or the option of a free month.

and

PrimeTime 2000 features a unique 'time of day' service offering up to 2 Mbps at off-peak hours. At other times (that's 8am to 6pm weekdays) you still enjoy standard broadband at up to 512 kbps.

In other words, it's the ideal service if during weekday work hours you won't be using the service a great deal or don't require top speed. It offers outstanding value for money priced at a similar level to 512 kbps services offering a quarter of the speed. And now, depending on your location**, connection is reduced to just £29.99.

These two products (primetime) are limited to certan exchanges, but you can find out if you are able to have them on Bulldogs website below.

Their new "economy" package is avalable for 15.99 a month but there IS a cap, it is the only product they do that's capped "A data download limit of 2 Gigabyte per month is applied to the PrimeTime 500 service"

A unique, brand new service from award-winning Bulldog offering up to 10 times the speed of dial-up!

For just £15.99/mth you'll get up to 512 kbps downstream speed during off-peak hours. At other times (that's 8am to 6pm weekdays) you still enjoy up to 256 kbps broadband. In other words, it's the ideal service if during weekday work hours you won't be using the service a great deal or don't require top speed.

What's more, you also get a free modem, or the option of a free month. Hurry - offer ends 30th April.

As an aside to this webspace and email are EXTRA, Bulldog do a bolt on for either 2.99 or 4.99 a month:

Portal Account

My Mail, 20 MB email account.
Web, POP and IMAP compliant.
Virus (Nortons Anti-Virus) & Spam Filtered.
Email management including Vacation and Signature settings.
My Web, 20 MB of web space.
My Diary, ICAL compliant.
My SMS, SMS text application.
My Links, Bookmark.
My News, News Feed
Price £2.99/Month (Inc Vat)




Family Account

4 x My Mail, 10 MB email account.
Web, POP and IMAP compliant.
Virus (Nortons Anti-Virus) & Spam Filtered.
Email management including Vacation and Signature settings.
My Web, 20 MB of web space.
My Briefcase, 15MB of online file storage.
My Messenger
My Diary, ICAL compliant.
My SMS, SMS text application.
My Links, Bookmark.
My News, News Feed.
Price £5.99/Month (Inc Vat)

http://www.bulldogdsl.com/special_offers.asp

Oh and they recently won the coverted "Best consumer broadband ISP"

[Edit] (Neil)-Link fixed.

[Emperordalek]

Well once they notify me of the increase I'll be downgrading back to 600k, not much difference if you ask me.

[Richard M]

If you haven't seen it yet: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/36760.html