01-12-2003, 14:49
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Re: 1 MB BB from AOL
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Originally Posted by Neil
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More than likely it will be available.
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02-12-2003, 10:33
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Re: 1 MB BB from AOL
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Originally Posted by philip.j.fry
More than likely it will be available.
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Interesting pricing £34.99 same as NTL £34.99 Could this be the new standard price for 1MB and you do need a BT phone
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02-12-2003, 10:41
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Re: 1 MB BB from AOL
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Originally Posted by th'engineer
Interesting pricing £34.99 same as NTL £34.99 Could this be the new standard price for 1MB and you do need a BT phone
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Could it lead to NTL dropping their price for 1MB?
AOLs 600k is 27.99 vs NTLs 24.99 the differential of £3 being for the AOL content?
AOL 1Mb is £34.99 vs NTLs 34.99 no premium for content?
Thus NTLs price should fall to 31.99 a month.
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02-12-2003, 11:13
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Re: 1 MB BB from AOL
The £34.99 quoted as the price is a special offer. AOL haven't announced the full price yet.
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However, the £34.99 price is a promo price and is only fixed for people who sign up by the end of January. AOL has yet to decide the price for the service from February 1 2004
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02-12-2003, 11:22
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Re: 1 MB BB from AOL
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Originally Posted by scastle
The £34.99 quoted as the price is a special offer. AOL haven't announced the full price yet.
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Their website shows no indication that this is a special offer.
Newspaper says offer ends 31/1, but does not really indicate that this is a promotional price.
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03-12-2003, 00:03
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Re: 1 MB BB from AOL
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Time to download a three-minute video clip
56k - 8 minutes approx
512k - 50 seconds approx
1Mb - 30 seconds approx
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Since when have you ever managed to get a three minute video clip at decent quality which is about 1 or 2 megs (judging by the download speed on dialup) ?
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03-12-2003, 02:19
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Re: 1 MB BB from AOL
I would not have thought that a 3 min mp3 would be under 2mb nevermind video, most of mine are 4mb ish.
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03-12-2003, 02:38
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Re: 1 MB BB from AOL
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Originally Posted by SMHarman
Could it lead to NTL dropping their price for 1MB?
AOLs 600k is 27.99 vs NTLs 24.99 the differential of £3 being for the AOL content?
AOL 1Mb is £34.99 vs NTLs 34.99 no premium for content?
Thus NTLs price should fall to 31.99 a month.
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My Pipex 1 meg DSL subscription is £33.99 a month inc. vat, and you can get it cheaper elsewhere.
edit: And AOL have to recoup the cost of all them annoying letters and CD's they send out which invariably end up getting binned by 99% of the population. I thought people only used AOL for 2 reasons, 1, they're ignorant of other ISP's or 2, they can't get broadband and use AOL up to the end of the free trial period then either re-register with a different credit card or use a real ISP.
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03-12-2003, 10:27
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Re: 1 MB BB from AOL
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Originally Posted by Bifta
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edit: And AOL have to recoup the cost of all them annoying letters and CD's they send out which invariably end up getting binned by 99% of the population. I thought people only used AOL for 2 reasons, 1, they're ignorant of other ISP's or 2, they can't get broadband and use AOL up to the end of the free trial period then either re-register with a different credit card or use a real ISP.
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I would think there are many happy AOL users who like the chat functionality, the provided content, spam filtering and parental controls.
Most internet users want the handholding that AOL provides, not a pure ISP data connection.
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