Merged: London Broadband.

[kronas]

Originally posted by Tristan
I thought you lot would all be celebrating the news that three London postcodes are getting broadband. Surely this is a sign that NTL are (slowly) bring broadband to ex-Videotron areas?

thats exactly what i thought yet the silence is deafening when approaching others with valid questions it seems people dont want to listen

Originally posted by Tristan

Also, Kronas, have you really managed to make 1400+ posts in a month, or have you doctored that somehow?

combination of having alot of time on my hands THAT thread and me posting all over the forum :p

[Tristan]

THAT thread???

I'm confused. What thread?

Sorry to take this off topic, it won't be long...

[gallego1]

Phoned the sales team yesterday just to see if anything had changed from the usual reply of "not yet" and "dont Know"

And the reply was my area of Lambeth will be getting the bb service by the end of this year ie 2003 and so is the rest of london..

This may be the news we are looking for and at most its only 5 months away OR Unless someone knows anything different ?????

Originally posted by Tristan
I thought you lot would all be celebrating the news that three London postcodes are getting broadband. Surely this is a sign that NTL are (slowly) bring broadband to ex-Videotron areas?

There are I believe 28 SE postcode districts in south east London, I don't know how many already have access to ntl's full range of services or even if they are ntl cabled.

SE5 Camberwell, SE15 Peckham, Nunhead, SE22 East Dulwich are neighbouring areas and I would imagine that those ntl customers living there will indeed be happy, it's progress and it proves ntl is doing something so that those who claim ntl has no money for development obviously know nothing.

There must be people in the areas above who could let us know if they have been contacted and what their experiences have been so far.

It would be nice to know ntl plans for the remainder of its customers in Greater London.

[Undisputedtruth]

As I live in those areas I shall let you Guys know NTL method of contacting customers from a customer point of view.

[Tristan]

Originally posted by Undisputedtruth
As I live in those areas I shall let you Guys know NTL method of contacting customers from a customer point of view.

And if it gets a good write-up, I'll eat my proverbial hat

[hawkmoon]

Originally posted by Tristan
I thought you lot would all be celebrating the news that three London postcodes are getting broadband. Surely this is a sign that NTL are (slowly) bring broadband to ex-Videotron areas?

Also, Kronas, have you really managed to make 1400+ posts in a month, or have you doctored that somehow?

Those three postcodes have been on the books for at least the last 6 months or longer.

We already knew that they could support BB without much upgrading. It is the other areas that many of us are interested in - the ones that NTL say have crap cableing and probably need the cables to be relaid.

[hawkmoon]

Originally posted by gallego1
Phoned the sales team yesterday just to see if anything had changed from the usual reply of "not yet" and "dont Know"

And the reply was my area of Lambeth will be getting the bb service by the end of this year ie 2003 and so is the rest of london..

This may be the news we are looking for and at most its only 5 months away OR Unless someone knows anything different ?????

The fact that NTL's head of marketing has stated that they have done extensive tests in the Harrow region (part of the London ex-videotron franchises) and HAVE NO PLANS to launch BB here!

[hawkmoon]

Originally posted by Gogogo


SE5 Camberwell, SE15 Peckham, Nunhead, SE22 East Dulwich are neighbouring areas and I would imagine that those ntl customers living there will indeed be happy, it's progress and it proves ntl is doing something so that those who claim ntl has no money for development obviously know nothing.

Glad you said that - it is the pro-NTL mob and those who work for NTL that have been claiming that NTL don't have the money to upgrade the networks.

[bigitup_j]

does anyone know which areas could be next? or is your guess as good as mine?

the se5, se15, and se22 areas are next to each other and are in the middle of south london, so maybe ntl are working outwards. and inwards, since parts of br1 (the bits in lewisham) have also been done.
and i believe the new cross area has broadband.

we will just have to wait..........

Originally posted by hawkmoon
Glad you said that - it is the pro-NTL mob and those who work for NTL that have been claiming that NTL don't have the money to upgrade the networks.

Firstly, looking over the London Broadband issue on the nthw.com site I am bewildered at the amount of sweat and time spent on postings of the subject, collected they must be the size of a small novel, which have lead us to where we are now.

Secondly, there was an ntl London Broadband Programme announcement posted by Frank dated 4 October 2002 and unless I misread it: SE5 Camberwell, SE15 Peckham, Nunhead, SE22 East Dulwich were not mentioned:

"ntl:home confirms London expansion programme
Posted by Frank on 04 Oct 2002

News just in today, ntl:home ´s London division has confirmed that a programme is now underway to provide service in most areas of London served by the network where broadband has not so far been rolled out.

ntl:home in London has been rapidly building out Broadband service and is at the present time providing it to half of the homes on its network in the capital.

Broadband is currently being launched in the City of Westminster and it is planned to launch service in Greenwich and Lewisham in the next few months. A programme is now underway to provide service in most other areas in London served by ntl:home during the coming year.

As part of this programme new launches across London will be tested in trails prior to launch. If you would like to either take part in testing the Broadband service or would be interested in subscribing to Broadband Internet when it is available then ntl:home have asked if you would please register your details at the address below."

Also I suspect that probably some people in these locations will not have services due to living in high rise apartment blocks.

[bigitup_j]

well i believe those postcodes you mentioned are 'across london', and parts of lewisham and greenwich have been done.
we just have to wait for more news.

[Undisputedtruth]

Originally posted by hawkmoon
Glad you said that - it is the pro-NTL mob and those who work for NTL that have been claiming that NTL don't have the money to upgrade the networks.

I agree. The pro-NTL mob has not provided any substantial information and their answers were so full of BS. I think they were trying their best to get the London thread closed and distort the truth whenever possible.

Has the NTL employees been of any help? I very much doubt it.

[hawkmoon]

Originally posted by Undisputedtruth

Has the NTL employees been of any help? I very much doubt it.

I had both senior management and the London management team giving opposing statements at roughly the same time.

It really does seem that NTL are as confused on this issue as the rest of us.

There must be someone who knows what is going on, but it certainly isn't senior management given their conflicting statements.

[BubbleGum]

Originally posted by Undisputedtruth
Has the NTL employees been of any help? I very much doubt it.

Why don't you bog off !. For once you've got some good news and you're still the same miserable bitch you always are. Is your name Victor Meldrew you happy sod ?.