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Hey all.

Was on 2mbit for donkeys and with the latest news of no speed increase, only unlimited on the 1mbit and 2mbit speeds. I decided to lower to 1mbit.

When on the phone, I complained saying you can get much better deals from wanadoo etc, faster speeds for less. They explained this was true but only for 6 months etc.. This was also true.

Anyways they offered a deal, 1Mbit for the year @ £9.99 a month. Nice saving and if any of you guys/gals want it, give it a try, just call them up and do what I did... complain.

;)

Cheers

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and with the latest news of no speed increase

and the news is what?? is the 10 meg thing not happening now?

Im happy with my 2Mb but Im about to ditch the cable TV and phone as 90% of the channels I watch I can get through the freeview box I bought over Christmas and I cant see the point in paying for something I can get for free, and the phone rarely gets used as most folks either text, call the mobile or email me so I can see NTL offering me some deal to keep the TV and phone but like I said its a choice of a cheaper deal, or free through freeview ..not realy much to think about eh...

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"If I had time....and a hammer, I`d track down every bootleg copy and smash it........"
- George Lucas



My DVD collection

Great! I live on a new housing estate and all NTL can offer me is dail up. :¦ :/ :/ :/

i have there 10meg bb

NTL 1 Meg now unlimited !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF

I was given the option of upgrading to 1 Meg in Sept `05.

I turned it down because NTL stated:-

"To enable us to offer this super-fast service for the same price, we will be introducing a usage allowance of 3GB per month."

I have 300k broadband and their phone.

Never been informed that 1 Meg is now unlimited !

http://www.home.ntl.com/page/broadband1

Tells you all you need to know...the main bit being "...unlimited downloads" :D :D :D

All the best...

This item was edited on Saturday, 14th January 2006, 22:25

Like all providers NTL have to be competitive and if you ring them saying you would like to leave for a better offer they will haggle a better deal.I recently phoned over a tiscali deal I`d seen for unlimited 2mb plus free calls for £19.99.Add BT phone line rental thats over £30.I was on 300k plusTV family pack plus free local calls after 6 and weekends at £47.99 and felt angry like the original poster.When I phoned they offered me a price £37.50 a month for unlimited 2mb plus TV family pack and free national and local phone calls after 6.I accepted this it`s over £10 cheaper than before, so do haggle a bargain.
I have a friend who also got a deal when he said he was leaving. I`m sure others will come on and show even better deals than mine.The point is it`s like gas and electric or bank accounts most of us cant be bothered to change but if you have some fact to show them you are serious, they wont want to loose you.

This item was edited on Sunday, 15th January 2006, 14:11

the caps were just lifted on 1meg and 2meg on 1st Jan. !0meg has a 75gig cap. As far as I can make out we will all have the choice of 10meg with different cap limits depending on what price you pay, or staying as you are with no cap. They`re still rolling 10meg out across the country so 10meg upgrades are still in the pipeline for some people yet. They`re offering it to 3meg customers first, as they pay the highest fee.

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Mark :)

My connection was upgraded to 1MB a few months ago, I didn`t ask for it it, it just happened. I wasn`t going to ask for the upgrade because of the limit, although I had been told by someone who got a free upgrade that NTL had told them they actually had no way of capping your download limit.



Regards

DarrenO

The 1 and 2 meg upgrades happened early last summer, you could upgrade yourself online via a webpage, I did it. 300k went to 1meg and 750k (formerly 600, formerly 512k) went to 2meg. If you chose not to, then you would be upgraded when they got round to you. Everyone had caps then, but they were soft caps, they only enforced it with the heavy downloaders who abused the network.

They changed the caps from 1gig per day, to 30gig per month for 2 and 3 meg customers, but dropped the 1meg cap to 3gig a month late last year though, probably to try to push people to take the higher speeds.

A couple of months ago when the 10meg upgrades started, talk was of everyone being put on 10meg eventually but with varying caps depending on what tariff you chose. Heavy downloaders would be downgraded to 512k uncapped.

Then it seems to have changed again recently to what I said earlier. 10meg with a 75gig cap if you want it, or stay in 1 or 2 meg with no cap.

This time because of the different options available they`re not doing it via a webpage, and you`ll have to option to stay as you are with no cap. Lots more info on Cable Forum. They seem to offer something to suit most people this way, and it competes with the likes of Tiscali who are advertising an uncapped service a lot lately.

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Mark :)

This item was edited on Monday, 16th January 2006, 00:43