[Merged]NTL price increase

[James Henry]

Originally Posted by 1701-e

Well if it's personal abuse you have to resort to I can see your head is up your own backside.

Some people in these forums really do suck.

I'll not be back.

Tricky thinking what to say to that really....

Perhaps you should go tell mommy about what the nasty man said on an internet forum?

Failing that as per homealone's suggestion use the report post feature, it's clearly marked.

http://www.pinkfluffybunniesandribbons-forums.com is >>> way.

/looks at my letter

My family pack + 'Sky movies collection' package, across two stb's is going up by £2, per month.

It seems it is only the 'premium' pricing being changed, which is passed on from Sky, anyway - if it was a problem I would ditch the movies collection package, which would, arguably hit sky as much as NTL??

[jtwn]

Originally Posted by bonzoe

2km from an exchange is only just over a mile, I live in a medium sized town and am aprox 3 miles from exchange as the crow flies, no idea what line length that equates to, but expect that it is over 4500metres, ADSL less than 4MB. Using same cable, was lucky to get 33K on dial up with BT.

Many, many people live too far from BT exchanges to get decent ADSL, 2km is only just down the road from exchange,

Yes I got these figures from the link which you gave, so I have "checked the facts".............

I don't claim that cable is the BEST, but it is better for a lot where ADSL is a joke.

Added with the fact that the cables don't come out from the exchange to your house in a perfect straight line. Then there still is the issue of ****ty noisy lines.

/waits for a wound up James Henry to return

Originally Posted by Shaun

I only used the quote to show that Ntl do compare apples and oranges just like lots of other companys. The examples weren't mine

Shaun, in the latest press propaganda by NTL they were not comparing like for like, this was not only spotted by me.
I do feel that there is some jangling of nerves in the upper echelons of NTL, looking at their advertisements in the press they seem rattled by something.
Customers are now able to name their own price that they want to pay for services which is ok by me

[James Henry]

Originally Posted by jtwn

Added with the fact that the cables don't come out from the exchange to your house in a perfect straight line. Then there still is the issue of ****ty noisy lines.

/waits for a wound up James Henry to return

See above regarding tongues and ntl's backside. Kissing up on here will get no-one anywhere, ntl don't do engineering careers anymore

While we're at it let's discuss 'excrementy' noisy lines for a moment shall we?

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Some of that mess is actually wanted signals!

The above probably doesn't mean that much to you but it's the return path of a node on the ntl cable network, look at the difference between the noise floor and the spikes above it, that gives you an idea of the CNR, so enough of the crap about BT's noisy lines, cable has them too, and their noise tends to affect hundreds of customers, not just one.

Anyway this is going off topic so I'll leave it be. Again the cable fanboys come out of the woodwork to bash the competition and ignore the proof put in front of them. Evidently we all live several KM from our exchanges at the end of horribly noisy telephone lines and that's that because jtwn the comms God says so

[Stuart]

Guys, I've said this before. Please do NOT discuss the pros/cons of ADSL vs Cable in this thread. The thread is about NTL price increases.

Originally Posted by Nugget

Well, don't forget that, if you did get Sky, you'd need a BT line for the first 12 months as part of the T&Cs

theres a rep in my local town centre who does the regular free sky blar blar but advertises no phone line needed

[maddyp]

its a bit of a large hike up -an extra £3.00 per month?

what do you think or have I got it wrong..

[orangebird]

Originally Posted by maddyp

its a bit of a large hike up -an extra £3.00 per month?

what do you think or have I got it wrong..

depends what services you have with them. What services have been affected by the price hike that you have?

[Rillington]

from what I can tell, these price rises are for the Sky premium channels.

[lostandconfused]

sky has recently upped thier prices for the sports and movies, hence the increase

[maddyp]

that makes sense now, it mentioned sky but I didnt read the letter properly. Just checked and it is due to sky and the sky sports. What a cheek!

[Dave2010]

Yeah its Skys fault they keep putting up there prices, i lost count how many times they have done that in the last couple of years prob have another price rise this year

Sky up their prices once a year!

Always have, they started off at £32 a year for their full package. but they realised by adding mainly +1 channels and a few more shopping channels that they could up their subs.

Yet people moan about it but they continue to pay for it, so I guess it's a case of put up and shut up unless your going to do something about it that is. Same as every company I guess unless you cancel then the price rises will continue!

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by homealone

/looks at my letter

My family pack + 'Sky movies collection' package, across two stb's is going up by £2, per month.

It seems it is only the 'premium' pricing being changed, which is passed on from Sky, anyway - if it was a problem I would ditch the movies collection package, which would, arguably hit sky as much as NTL??

Originally Posted by Dave2010

Yeah its Skys fault they keep putting up there prices, i lost count how many times they have done that in the last couple of years prob have another price rise this year

Homealone give you the answer if you guys don't like the increases.