Hi John, in reply to your posting of today:
> Does anyone in NTL's UK-coverage area have any experience of switching from
> BT or whatever to NTL's cable-service?
I moved from BT to Cable&Wireless (now NTL). I don't know if
there's an original NTL offering which is different . Phones are okay
but there's no caller ID feature.
> For everyone's information, I believe that NTL offers a service comprising:
> 1. cable-TV
> 2. Cable-telecoms
> 3. 56k modem-compliant internet connection
I only have experience of 1 and 2
> AFAIK,
>
> 1) the cable-TV service includes several free channels
> and an option to subscribe to many more, but with
> no obligation to take any of the subscription channels.
Yes. I moved from analogue to digital a few months back. There's an
Access pack at around �10/month and various interest packs (e.g.
music) but for �23/month there's a Maxi-pack which is all the
non-premium channels (64 including five radio channels)
> 2) the cable-telecoms service is a telephone service
> to replace BT (or whomever), with call charges
> working out significantly less than BT's charges.
They say it's around 20% cheaper but there are various arrgangements
to suit your call patterns (local, international etc.)
> 3) although NTL uses OPTICAL FIBRE cables, not
> telephone wires, the sonic signals generated by
> a modem and emitted as an analogue stream of
> electrical impulses
Optical yes but not sure of the rest.
> 4) Internet access is 24-hour free and unmetered.
Take care- under my digital TV service, there's free and unmetered
email via the TV (doesn't tie up the phone line) but you really need
an infra red remote keyboard (about �32 direct or from Dixons) for
effective input. File attachements are a problem (you can view
incoming images but there's no way of adding or stripping off files)
and there is no address book feature.
There's a free "TV Internet service" but that's a limited selection of
sites and you can't type in URLs as far as I can see. Beyond that they
do offer Internet and Internet Lite access packs but I haven't got
round to subscribing yet. They look attractive but flat fee I think.
Just using the phone service and genesis, my connect speeds are
around 31-33k using a Pace Solo 56k. NTL say they can optimise the
line for higher speeds but again I haven't taken the time to call
them- the help llines are often VERY busy.
John
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