[merged] Price increase

[rodd]

Welcome to the forum Whistlingdixy, I'm glad you made it over the void from nthw.com-ntl, how are things back there, in never-never land?

[Biggus]

A price increase on DTV we could handle, but on BB, NO.

I'm already getting fed up with having to reboot the STB several times a week just to use the EPG, and if wasn't for the fact that we can only get 512kb ADSL MAX ATM (more than 3km from exchange), then we'd be back on BT, Sky & using ADSL.

If the price rises do occur, then I'll have no problem with dropping down to 512kb on ADSL using an ISP that actually provides a decent service & working email (thankfully I have my own domain etc.). I don't really need the 1Mb for much except downloading drivers and video files etc., but I like the extra speed, so it would be an inconvenience, but bearable when saving £12-15pm from it.

[zoombini]

You are most likely to get 2 months in which to end the contract, because NTL wont even bother telling you that they have put the price up for 1.... lol

[bigitup_j]

so there isn't going to be a price increase then??

hope there ain't

[paul11974]

i just wanna see ntl introduce some better packages like british telecom has

http://www.bt.com/Choices/index.jsp?...K&obsOID=46321

[Neil]

Originally Posted by paul11974

i just wanna see ntl introduce some better packages like british telecom has

http://www.bt.com/Choices/index.jsp?...K&obsOID=46321

http://news.money.msn.co.uk/article....e=windows-1252

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=10018

[Neil]

Originally Posted by paul11974

i just wanna see ntl introduce some better packages like british telecom has

http://www.bt.com/Choices/index.jsp?...K&obsOID=46321

Why do you want to see this? ntl can't even offer Caller Display in some (most?) regions.

If you want the packages that BT offers, why not just switch back to BT?

[bigitup_j]

ntl does need to restructure telephone pricing, 3-2-1 WAS competative, not now.
some serious changes have to be made, otherwise ntl will be worst value for telephone (more so)

[ian@huth]

It makes me wonder how many people actually bother to check to see if their suppliers are competitive or if they are getting the best deal possible. I was watching the local news yesterday when there was an article on telephone rental being discussed. If I remember correctly it said that some 3 or 4 million BT customers still rent their phone from BT which costs something like £4 or £4.50 per quarter. I can't remember the exact figure and can't find it in the BT price list. You can get a simple phone these days for less than one quarters rental from BT. Why don't people look at what they are paying and save themselves some money.

I believe that it is this attitude that helps companies hold onto customers even when they are more expensive and offer lower quality services. You can see the scene in the telco, cable and satellite companies boardrooms when they discuss price increases. "Yep, lets put the prices up and give us more revenue so that we can pay ourselves bigger bonuses, the suckers will stay with us and pay it".

I note that BT have announced that they are making their tariffs simpler to understand and their bills easier to understand about 4 days after the government complained that telephone bills were too complicated for customers to make any kind of comparison.

I for one can see that trying to make comparisons of like for like under the present systems of telephone billing(and tariffs) which all vary and are all equally confusing from all the differing companies is beyond most of us.Look at the recent hoo ha with telephone directories being open up to other companies.Comparing like for like in that situation was just as confusing too.

I suspect this is as much the reason why people won't change from one supplier to another.You also only have to look at the confusion with the power companies to know this is true.

Incog.

[byron_hinson]

Originally Posted by Neil

Ok, Here's what I believe to be happening regarding price rises.....

It would appear that both 1 Meg & 600k ntl broadband will both be going up by £2.00 per month (I'm not 100% certaian on the 600k)

N.

If this is going to be the case I'll be dropping down to the 600k service until another provider for 1mb comes into my area - it's insane that they are increasing these prices when they should actually be coming down.

[Matuka]

If 600k goes up then I go down to 150K.

And I wont do that untill NTL write to me & tell me that its gone up, in which time I will most likely have had a months use at the new rate & there is going to be one hell of an argument.!

[bob_builder]

Originally Posted by ianathuth

It makes me wonder how many people actually bother to check to see if their suppliers are competitive or if they are getting the best deal possible. I was watching the local news yesterday when there was an article on telephone rental being discussed. If I remember correctly it said that some 3 or 4 million BT customers still rent their phone from BT which costs something like £4 or £4.50 per quarter. I can't remember the exact figure and can't find it in the BT price list. You can get a simple phone these days for less than one quarters rental from BT. Why don't people look at what they are paying and save themselves some money.

I read somewhere that most of the people who still rent their phone do not even realise that they do not have to anymore because they started renting when it was compusory and still do so.

[ntl customer]

Originally Posted by Neil

So-£38.00 1 meg ntl BB anyone? or perhaps I can interest you in £600k BB for the attractive sum of £27 per month?-didn't think so!

Perhaps I can interest you in a 1Gb a day capped broadband service which has forced web proxies, an email service that always seems to be breaking down and unable to handle large attachments and a newsgroup service that is not complete and even struggles with text messages let alone those which have binaries in them and always managed to time out sometime or another.

Why do ntl not make the fact that the service is capped in their adverts?

If there is a price increase, then that will probably the final straw. I am sick of the email, proxies, cap, newsgroups and everything else associated with their service and anything that will get me out of it without having to endure another 11 or so months of this shÃÃâ€*’ÂÂÂÂ*te will be most welcome.

Why should we pay for a service that does not appear to be improving or at least is usable?

[Marge]

Well I could tell but then I'd have to kill everyone