1Mbit price reduction

[Salu]

I must say that I am surprised that NTL have not cut their price to cut their broadband price to respond to BTs cut, by now.

I know they are justifying it by saying it's a 1.5MB connection but they are nearly £9 over the BT price now with no direct competitor.

I actually would be happy with a 1MB (256 up) but NTL do not do this. So do I hang on on the grounds that NTL must soon cut the price to align themselves with the rest of Europe or cut and run.....

I just can't justify £37.99 on internet per month. But I do want the 256 upload for gaming.

[KevAmiga]

Yeah im kinda hoping that. I doubt it tho.

[Gareth]

/me is in the same boat as you Salu. It is a lot of money each month, when I'd be happy with 1Mb.

The thing with my situation is that if I drop my broadband completely, then I'd have to switch naturally to BT for a phoneline, which would also mean that I would also drop my TV package because I'm currently forced to take NTL's phoneline rental as part of the Cable TV Pack, which would be surplus to requirements as I'd be using the BT phoneline instead. Argh, this is starting to do my head in

[KevAmiga]

Im currently on the 60 day free trial dunno im not going to keep 1.5mb, i think ill drop to 300k, or maybe 750k.

[DeadKenny]

Originally Posted by Salu

I must say that I am surprised that NTL have not cut their price to cut their broadband price to respond to BTs cut, by now.

I know they are justifying it by saying it's a 1.5MB connection but they are nearly £9 over the BT price now with no direct competitor.

Besides there are ADSL providers such as PlusNet doing 2Mbps 'uncapped' for £1 more than NTL's 1.5Mbps (and if you want capped you can get it as cheap at £20), or even AOL(god forbid) doing 1Mbps uncapped for £30 !

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

i reckon it would be interesting to see how many ppl habitually go over the limit every day

I do have have been since the day it was introduced... Somtimes I do as much as 5GB/day. I'd say an average was probably about 2.5GB/day.

If NTL did start enforcing the cap, I'd leave them. Cancel my broadband, TV, phone - the whole lot. It's not really about speed for me, 512k ADSL would be okay (especially with 256k up). It's about the amount per day I can download. What's the point of having 1.5Mb if only means you can download a web page 0.001 seconds faster? My comp is on all day anyway...

[Mauldor]

My thoughts on this are that 750/128 is fine for the normal downloading etc but the 128 upload is painfully slow, updating my web site with files etc regular or sending a file to someone makes me what to upgrade again to 1.5mit jyst for the Upload speed. Like many people I also cannot justity the price jump when most of the time the connection is sitting idle which is why I was considering going across to ADSL you see - even 512service comes with 256 Upload.

I wonder how many people have downgraded to 750 from the 1.5 mbit package since the price rise? Not that NTL Are bothered really - fit more people on there UBR thingy bobby.

[just21]

I downloaded from 1mb to 600k when the price rise was announced. In a few months though you will be able to transfer your BT land line number to gossiptel and have a voip phone saving 10.50 BT line rental a month. Gossiptel have no monthly mnimum for calls. You can also keep your phone number when you move house.

[scrotnig]

Originally Posted by just21

I downloaded from 1mb to 600k when the price rise was announced. In a few months though you will be able to transfer your BT land line number to gossiptel and have a voip phone saving 10.50 a BT line rental a month. Gossiptel have no monthly mnimum for calls. You can also keep your phone number when you move house.

VOIP is sadly not yet at the level where it can reliably replace a landline entirely. It'll probably get there though.

[bigitup_j]

yeah, the Quality of service can be very patchy and you can't call 999!

but ntl do plan to introduce VOIP toward the end of 2005, by then, i'm sure it'll have improved markedly.

[just21]

I call my friend in Estonia, who has a Texas voip number from Vonage and it sounds fine to me.

[Tricky]

I hope they do reduce the price I've just upgraded again!!! (never learns!) - Wife was fed up of slow PCAnywhere connection to her office PC

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by Mark B

VOIP is sadly not yet at the level where it can reliably replace a landline entirely. It'll probably get there though.

Will it ever get there?

VOIP depends on your ISP giving you a decent 24/7 connection so if they have a network problem resulting in loss of your connection you will need another method of making and receiving calls. You also have to hope that your electricity supplier doesn't have an outage too.

[DrAwesome]

I always look at the long term cost of BB (as it doesnt seem so much when broken down into 12 months).

If you subscribe to NTL 1.5 BB
you will have paid NTL by the end of the year £455.88 (£37.99 x 12)

For NTL 750k BB you will have paid NTL by the end of the year £299.88 (£24.99 x 12)

For NTL 300k BB you will have paid NTL by the end of the year £215.88 (£17.99 x 12)

(Ofcourse the totals will change as people upgrade & downgrade & subscribe to added packages, but its still alot of money especially when you multiply it by how many BB customers NTL have).

Loadsa money i wish i had had it in my bank account each year, even after some deductions they must be a tidy sum left over.