*ALL* Speed Upgrade Discussion In Here Please - Page 30

HD462 · 11-02-2005, 15:16

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Originally Posted by mcfc2134

BT to rollout new speeds to residential customers on the 17th February and business customers on 1st April 2005 according to the BBC.

ntl have surely got to follow suit soon otherwise there surely taking the risk of losing new subscribers?

Here's that article you mentioned. It wa mentioned in an email newsletter today, that I get from PCW. http://www.pcw.co.uk/news/1161152

[Admin Edit] (Neil)-Please don't copy & paste other people's copyrighted work when a link will more than suffice, thanks.

etccarmageddon · 11-02-2005, 16:24

hopefully this will all increase the level of urgency at NTL re our speed increases and I suspect will shove the ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£25 admin charge into the bin.

HD462 · 11-02-2005, 16:57

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Originally Posted by HD462

[Admin Edit] (Neil)-Please don't copy & paste other people's copyrighted work when a link will more than suffice, thanks.

I only did it that way as those type of links often change what's on them over time (news pages), so copying it keeps what is there for people to refer to. It's normally accepted to copy providing you link back to the source, as I did.

Anyway, no worries.

dragon · 11-02-2005, 17:02

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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

hopefully this will all increase the level of urgency at NTL re our speed increases and I suspect will shove the ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£25 admin charge into the bin.

i sure hope so...

jtwn · 11-02-2005, 18:19

Yeah, its going to look a bit of a joke now bt has had all this publicity surrounding its free upgrades.

Motorman · 11-02-2005, 18:36

Operation Tornado IS imminent

"From 17 February, BT will upgrade the speed of all of their Broadband services, for the same price. All existing customers will be migrated automatically for free. However, BT will not increase the current usage allowances on all services.
This move will give BT a temporary advantage over ntl until our planned speed upgrade (called Project Tornado) in mid-March. From then, we will match or beat all BT products on price, speed and usage allowance.
It has just been announced that existing ntl 750K and 1.5Mb customers will be upgraded to the new speeds (2Mb & 3Mb) automatically and for free, (no admin fee). Existing 300K customers will be given the option to upgrade to the new speed (1Mb) if they wish as the new 1Mb speed will have a reduced monthly usage of 3GB, and customers may prefer the 300K service with 30GB monthly usage allowance."

> *BT Broadband Basic and BT Broadband don't have email, anti-spam & anti-virus nor personal webspace, whereas all ntl broadband services offer these for free.

LostintheNW · 11-02-2005, 18:43

Hmm so that means we don't have a choice of staying on the speed are now with the soft cap then? its just hello here is 3meg and a nice cap to go with it? (not that i am saying its not good that its going to be done for free)

Albie · 11-02-2005, 18:48

That's a bit daft having a 30GB cap on 300k and only 3GB allowed for the new 1MB teir.

If they'd any sense they change that to 20GB on the 300k and 13 GB on the 1MB.

daxx · 11-02-2005, 19:14

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Originally Posted by Motorman

Operation Tornado IS imminent

OMG NTL controlling the weather now, the mind is boggling overtime on this one.

They could have chosen a better operational title surely

"Operation Here It Is At Last"
"Operation Stop Your Whingeing"

just a couple of suggestions

etccarmageddon · 11-02-2005, 19:23

looks like an NTL staff member might have just broken their non disclosure agreement!

Chrysalis · 11-02-2005, 19:48

I dont blame him he is probably treated poorly.

"From then, we will match or beat all BT products on price, speed and usage allowance."

I see NTL still think BT is all of ADSL, BT wholesale has no limits and BT isp is only a % of the entire ADSL user base. So the above is a false statement.

jtwn · 11-02-2005, 20:10

BT as an isp is the widely recognised competitor of ntl though. ntl aren't going to match some niche isp who may offer great speeds/allowance.

Anyway thats great news, i doubt they had any alternative re the fee, i love leaked info

Ignition · 11-02-2005, 20:38

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Originally Posted by Motorman

Operation Tornado IS imminent

Neither confirming or denying this at all, but giving out info like that true or not on a board like this, or any public forum is a very bad idea.

paulyoung666 · 11-02-2005, 20:40

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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

looks like an NTL staff member might have just broken their non disclosure agreement!

might or have ?????????????

mcfc2134 · 11-02-2005, 22:16

Seems like "Operation Tornado" is spreading rather quickly - also been posted on the Digital Spy forums at http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/...d.php?t=192078

Obviously if this is true then its pretty big news and I'm pretty sure we're not meant to know about it!