- NTL & Telewest Merger
- Posted by JF on October 21st, 2005
As a NTL customer I am concerned that I am getting the short end of the
stick.
I pay £25 per month for 2mb Broadband with a 30gb cap.
My Dad pays £35 per month for 10mb Broadband with no caps on Telewest.
My nephew pays the promo price of £30 for phone,basic TV and 2mb broadband
(free upgrade twice in past 6 months from 256k) on Telewest. I am not sure
how much broadband costs after his deal expires.
Does this mean that everyone on NTL will be getting the great deals without
limitations that TW give their customers or will TW customers be getting the
same restrictions as their NTL counterparts. Just a thought... would anyone
like to put forward suggestion/rumours etc
Thanks
John
- Posted by nick on October 21st, 2005
"MinusNet" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:4358515c$0$41017$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfr eenews.net...
Stop whinging about Plusnet, whinger.
- Posted by toonarmybarmy on October 21st, 2005
JF Wrote:
different packages based on usage limits.
Checkout this link:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/08/ntl_broadband/
Just got my 10meg on Blueyonder and download test shows 1.18 MB pe
second
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toonarmybarmy
- Posted by Steve Peake on October 21st, 2005
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 01:45:40 GMT, JF wrote:
Your not comparing like with like, thats an upgraded TW line, the NTL one
hasn't got their upgrade yet. When both are done they could easily join
together to form the same package, and as the first parts of the companies
to join are likely to be sales and marketing it makes sense to do so.
The cap is more interesting, when they join they will have excess external
bandwidth as the contracts for those lines will still be running. Stick in
a few more peers, and use each others routes and there is no point in
having caps on NTL. In the long term it depends on the mindset of the new
management, if they have any brains they will call it "unlimited", but cap
off with some kind of fair usage guidelines at the very high end (lets say
200+ish Gb). With the top slots being held by NTL staff though, you wonder
if they will screw this one up.
Steve
- Posted by R. Mark Clayton on October 21st, 2005
"Steve Peake" <spam@puppet-head.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1646myk1ys9xj$.11qlpt4f76tog.dlg@40tude.net.. .
Indeed, what is the point of them offering cable TV, if customers just
stream the channels over IP?
- Posted by toonarmybarmy on October 21st, 2005
Steve Peake Wrote:
merger was well sorted
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toonarmybarmy
- Posted by Jono on October 21st, 2005
JF wrote:
|| As an NTL customer I am concerned that I am getting the short end of
|| the stick.
||
Don't worry, we're concerned that we'll have to accept NTL's lesser
offering.
- Posted by toonarmybarmy on October 21st, 2005
Jono Wrote:
Ok I've got to admit it does (on paper) look bad.
But, when you break it down:-
NTL - 10Mb/s, 75gig limit, £37.99pm
B.Y - 10Mb/s, unlimited, £35.00pm
Most users will only notice the extra £3pm
At least you don't rely on BT for you service
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toonarmybarmy
- Posted by JF on October 22nd, 2005
"MinusNet" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:4358515c$0$41017$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfr eenews.net...
Erm...no I wasn't
- Posted by Kenny on October 22nd, 2005
"JF" <whistle48@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:8LX5f.419$iZ4.74@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net...
as a share holder with Telewest it will be months yet before it all goes through and then
I bet there will be different packages on offer as I beleive Sky are going to try and get into
home broadband in a bigway.
So watch out
PS
At the moment a lot of people will be tied into contracts anyhow I bet so I guess
you would be stuck with them.
