NTL & Telewest Merger

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

JF wrote

> 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
>

Stop fucking whingeing. You were happy before the merger.

"MinusNet" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:4358515c$0$41017$(E-Mail Removed) eenews.net...
> JF wrote
>
>> 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
>>
>
> Stop fucking whingeing. You were happy before the merger.
>

Stop whinging about Plusnet, whinger.

JF Wrote:
> Does this mean that everyone on NTL will be getting the great deal
> without
> limitations that TW give their customers or will TW customers b
> getting the
> same restrictions as their NTL counterparts. Thanks
> John
According to reports NTL will be upgrading ALL customers to 10meg wit
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

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 01:45:40 GMT, JF wrote:

> 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.

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

"Steve Peake" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1646myk1ys9xj$.(E-Mail Removed).. .
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 01:45:40 GMT, JF wrote:
>
> 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.

Indeed, what is the point of them offering cable TV, if customers just
stream the channels over IP?

>
> Steve

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 01:45:40 GMT, "JF" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>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.
If that where to happen TW would most certainly loose a lot of long
standing customers including myself . I think they will continue to be
run has two separate companies just has F2S is going to be now they
have been taken over by Pipex .

nick wrote


> Stop whinging about Plusnet, whinger.
>

Prat.

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:57:16 +0100, MinusNet <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>nick wrote
>
>
>> Stop whinging about Plusnet, whinger.
>>
>
>Prat.
It is often said that it takes one to know one .

Steve Peake Wrote:
>
> Your not comparing like with like, thats an upgraded TW line, the NT
> one
> hasn't got their upgrade yet. When both are done they could easil
> join
> together to form the same package, and as the first parts of th
> companies
> to join are likely to be sales and marketing it makes sense to do so.
> Steve
But at the time they stated that they (NTL) were keeping the cap. Th
merger was well sorted

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