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NTL trialing new services

NTL are currently trialing 2MB BB and NTL wireless BB.
NTL BB tech department hinted that it will be live in 3rd quarter 2002 at around £80, this wil be 2048/512.

No info currently available on wireless BB, althou 1024/256 is coming down in price to £40
 
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Gypo[UK2]:
<strong>NTL are currently trialing 2MB BB and NTL wireless BB.
NTL BB tech department hinted that it will be live in 3rd quarter 2002 at around £80, this wil be 2048/512.

No info currently available on wireless BB, althou 1024/256 is coming down in price to £40</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Sounds good if it's true. ntl is way ahead of everyone else for broadband. they've now got over a quarter of a million broadband subscribers & still reckon cable (ntl & telewest) account for over 70% of all UK residential broadband connections.

<a href="http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=quote/uk/uk_quote_long_news.ht&s=APQXbhRVwTlRMIElu" target="_blank">http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=quote/uk/uk_quote_long_news.ht&s=APQXbhRVwTlRMIElu</a>

NTL has made substantial progress in the take up of its broadband Internet products, establishing itself as the UK's market leader in broadband Internet services with over 250,000 customers today.

As OFTEL recently reported, the UK now has over half a million high-speed broadband connections, and NTL estimates that over 70% of broadband homes use a cable modem. Demand is also growing for NTL's unique premium 1-megabit service that was launched in March 2002, with nearly 4,000 customers now taking the super-high-speed service.
 
NTL are even worse for availability, compared to BT.

For some very strange reason, NTL seem to think that nobody lives out of a city - not town, but city.

You can really only get their services if you live in a city.
 
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Kyle:
<strong>NTL are even worse for availability, compared to BT.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Which makes their ability to retain the position of the UK's largest broadband supplier all the more impressive. Despite BT's wholesale price cut ntl report broadband installations are on the increase week on week & ntl/telewest combined (still worse for availability, compared to BT) are installing more broadband connections than adsl.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Kyle:
<strong>
For some very strange reason, NTL seem to think that nobody lives out of a city - not town, but city.

You can really only get their services if you live in a city.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Well maybe you can give then a couple of hundred million pounds to extend their privately financed & built network. ntl offer services where they expect to see a return, they are not a charity.
 
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Gypo[UK2]:
<strong>NTL are currently trialing 2MB BB and NTL wireless BB.
NTL BB tech department hinted that it will be live in 3rd quarter 2002 at around £80, this wil be 2048/512.

No info currently available on wireless BB, althou 1024/256 is coming down in price to £40</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">It is worth taking a look at my posting - the fifth post - on this topic <a href="http://www.ispreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/ubb2/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000133;p=2#000019" target="_blank">http://www.ispreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/ubb2/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000133; p=2#000019</a>

ntl: are NOT currently trialling 2Mbps broadband via Cable modem. The wireless trial isn't news, its been going for months.

Where is the proof that "1024/256 is coming down in price to £40" if ntl: haven't announced it?

The figures published this week show significant numbers taking 1Mbps at £50 - why drop the price when no one else in the UK has a launched 1Mbps product for residential customers?

<small>[ 14-06-2002, 11:06 PM: Message edited by: ptarmigan ]</small>
 
Blueyonder r doin the 1Meg service for £35/month
£15 cheaper than NTL
 
ptarmigan if NTL had announced this info then forums like this would be dead, ntl will not announce a future service months in advance in case they cant sustain it.

As i have posted before when NTL 1mb was due, myself and others were spot on with information we gave
 
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by <humdehum>:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Kyle:
<strong>NTL are even worse for availability, compared to BT.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Which makes their ability to retain the position of the UK's largest broadband supplier all the more impressive. Despite BT's wholesale price cut ntl report broadband installations are on the increase week on week & ntl/telewest combined (still worse for availability, compared to BT) are installing more broadband connections than adsl.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Kyle:
<strong>
For some very strange reason, NTL seem to think that nobody lives out of a city - not town, but city.

You can really only get their services if you live in a city.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Well maybe you can give then a couple of hundred million pounds to extend their privately financed & built network. ntl offer services where they expect to see a return, they are not a charity.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">NTL are just not cabling or investing anywhere, hardly a good sign for a company supposedly going for growth. They can hardly grow if their user base is shrinking. Large numbers of BT dialup users are already leaving NTL for ADSL, thats a substantial revenue lose for NTL and will increase as BT have resumed their Rollout but NTL have not, does not sound like a very commercial decision to me to let BT come and just take your customers.
 
I'm working on six (count 'em) broadband rollout projects for ntl at the moment. Not sure how that squares with your information.
 
Broadband being available to people who previously couldn't get it.

<small>[ 18-06-2002, 11:34 AM: Message edited by: DFDS ]</small>
 
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Gypo[UK2]:
<strong>ptarmigan if NTL had announced this info then forums like this would be dead, ntl will not announce a future service months in advance in case they cant sustain it.

As i have posted before when NTL 1mb was due, myself and others were spot on with information we gave</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I assume you read the posting I referred to above?

If so, then which bit of "I am responsible for Product Development at ntl: and can categorically state that we are not trialling a 2Mbps service" didn't you understand?

The 1M launch for ntl:home was preannounced, and we'd introduced a business vesrion last year, so predicting it can't have been that hard can it?

<small>[ 18-06-2002, 05:53 PM: Message edited by: ptarmigan ]</small>
 
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Kyle:
<strong>NTL are even worse for availability, compared to BT.

For some very strange reason, NTL seem to think that nobody lives out of a city - not town, but city.

You can really only get their services if you live in a city.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Hi , I live in a town and can get NTL cable which i currently subscribe to.
HTH <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
JC
 
hmmmm and I live in a village so that is that theory out of the window

<small>[ 20-06-2002, 05:45 PM: Message edited by: dmeister ]</small>
 
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