In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rod McCall wrote: > This does sound VERY good. Are NTL still putting in cables these days since > their financial problems struck? I'd like to get either NTL or Telewest, > however at present none of these two can agree who has the franchise for my > area. Two years on I'm still waiting. > Rod, I don't know what the position is as far as NTL still laying new cables I just hope that their operation as it is keeps on rolling. I have a friend who lives in East Kilbride and gets Telewest's cable and is as delighted with his as I am. The cabling was laid in our street, Jedburgh Gardens, early on in the NTL program. NTL have have intoduced a 1,000 kbps download service now. I had a look a couple of days ago at the cost of that for this postal code area on their web sites... http://www.ntl.com/locales/gb/en/home/ask/contact/customer.asp I abandoned BT for NTL's 'Starter-Telephone' & TV along with a second phone line to run the PC on Dial-Up at 56kbps; got my first bill Mar 18th, 2000. That second phone line at such a low on cost was a great benefit. Not long after it became available in this street, I dumped the NTL phone line used for the PC's Dial-Up and put the PC on cable_modem. Got the first bill for that in April 18th, 2001. Listed as "512 CABLE MODEM ACCESS �24.99" �25 of anybody's money. This included the rental of the Motorola SB4100 cable-modem for a �5 a month less the usual ubiqitous 1p. I could have bought the modem then for �145 and I would have been charged �20 less that same 1p for the service. So as far as I'm concerned �145 = 29 months rental of the modem. Unless they have now started to slip in the modem as 'free' and part of a �25 package I'll be looking for a reduction at the end of that 29 months period. Their latest 1Meg service is �50 pm. Harry. VA 5.51 build 315, Sat, 11 May 2002 13:43 +0100 Win98SE
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