[merged] Price increase

[Defiant]

Not too sure. I think it may have always been that way?

oops just noticed haha this is gr8. It makes NTL look even worse. There 1MB broadband service,

£35 per month when combined with another Telewest service or £37.99 per month when ordered alone

[Tezcatlipoca]

LOL, yeah.

TW 1meg (if you have another service) = £35 (same as always, only the "standalone" is changing - and that's going down to £37.99)

NTL 1meg (with or without another service) = £37.99 (up by £3)


NTL does look worse, compared to that.

I wonder how they'll streamline the pricing when they merge?

[kronas]

£3 more for 1mbit they are just pricing themselves out of the market with such an increase

[Defiant]

I think thats the whole problem. The people at the top dont seem to know the market!

[Charlie_Bubble]

How about this for a comparison:

http://www2.fast24.net/packages/broadband/2mb-50_1.asp

2Meg ADSL for £37.49 a month.

I'm off. Final straw really. Going to downgrade BB tomorrow to 600k. Sports channels will be going after the weekend footie games and I will be booking Mr Sky, Mr BT and Mr Reasonably-priced-ADSL-provider to come and replenish my services when I quit NTL. Hopefully I also won't have to pay the £20 month for access to working newsgroup servers, which should be a standard thing with any decent ISP. Looks like my 4 year wait for a working red button will be fulfilled, but not by the company I thought would do it!

[Charlie_Bubble]

Ironic how they have 5 out-of-date internet service award icons on this price rise leaflet.

[ntl customer]

Is it me or have they used crap quality Sky and BT logos, and nicked the old BT one off their website in the leaflet?

Botchery at its finest

Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble

Ironic how they have 5 out-of-date internet service award icons on this price rise leaflet.

Indeed. What happened to their Mirror award - it seems to have disappeared?!

[bob_builder]

Originally Posted by Debsy42

As far as I know they are

Thanks Debs! Does anybody know how to set up free voicemail?

[td444]

Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble

How about this for a comparison:

http://www2.fast24.net/packages/broadband/2mb-50_1.asp

2Meg ADSL for £37.49 a month.

I'm off. Final straw really. Going to downgrade BB tomorrow to 600k. Sports channels will be going after the weekend footie games and I will be booking Mr Sky, Mr BT and Mr Reasonably-priced-ADSL-provider to come and replenish my services when I quit NTL. Hopefully I also won't have to pay the £20 month for access to working newsgroup servers, which should be a standard thing with any decent ISP. Looks like my 4 year wait for a working red button will be fulfilled, but not by the company I thought would do it!

ISP's newsgroup services generally suck. Pipex have some nice newsgroup servers although they get pretty busy.

[Charlie_Bubble]

Originally Posted by td444

ISP's newsgroup services generally suck. Pipex have some nice newsgroup servers although they get pretty busy.

Cheers for the warning. Will probably go for one of the bigger ISPs in the end. Have definitely decided I'm tired of NTL. Fancy interactive on my TV with multi-screen options, caller display on my phone, working email/newsgroups, no daily cap and generally slightly lower prices for each element and better returns for my money.

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by td444

ISP's newsgroup services generally suck. Pipex have some nice newsgroup servers although they get pretty busy.

Demons work well - unfortunately you can only access them from a Demon IP range, so despite paying them for Dial Up and using their pop servers I cannot get to use their news servers anymore and have the joy of NTLs.

At least text.news works most of the time.

[1701-e]

Originally Posted by Neil

Sky boxes are free, just the same as ntl's.

At worst with Freeview-even if your box blew up every 13 months (just outside guarantee) the most it would cost you would be £50.00 per year.

But after a year you're responsible for the $ky box if it f**ks up.

The Freeview comparison is interesting. With CR3 rolling out and multi-screens etc on the way, NTL will have a vastly superior all round product whereas Freeview is practically at full capacity ( eg only 2 multi-screens on News24 interactive). Front Row / PPV access doesn't exist on Freeview. Also as mentioned before E4 is only available (part-time) on the crappy T*ts Up TV thingy pay TV that most Freeviewers can't/won't get (£7.99 pm).

My £8.50 (£9.50 from June) is reasonable value.

All IMHO

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by 1701-e

But after a year you're responsible for the $ky box if it f**ks up.

Most of my family, friends and neighbours have Sky and none of us have had to have an engineer visit. Family members have three Sky boxes sat waiting to be used if they are needed. These extra boxes were out of contract boxes picked up free from friends / neighbours who for one reason or another had no further use for them.

The other point with Sky is that after your first year is up you can use the box without any monthly charge to view quite a selection of channels. http://www.wickonline.com/fta.htm

[Defiant]

And what if you do need an engineer visit. This has been covered before on here. It seems to be the only thing pro NTL people can come up with. The box should be covered for the first 12 months anyway. After that well your contract with Sky is only 12 month

[Neil]

Originally Posted by 1701-e

But after a year you're responsible for the $ky box if it f**ks up.

The Freeview comparison is interesting. With CR3 rolling out and multi-screens etc on the way, NTL will have a vastly superior all round product

So they bloody well should for the money they are charging!

We are talking about Freeview at £50.00 for the first year, & nothing after that, compared to ntl's base pack @ 12 x £19.00 per year=£2 28.00 for the 1st year, & every year after that.

So....£ 228.00 per year for ntl's second rate (supposedly) interactive service that has been 'coming soon' for how long??) against a one off payment of £50.00 for slightly less channles on Freeview.

Value for money? I don't think so somehow.