NTL New Broadband Internet Services 3MB ?37.99. Update: 10mb line coming

[Jakeway]

This info is going around many forums

? Broadband leader to launch three new cable broadband services
? NTL to offer the UK?s most competitive 1Mb, 2Mb and 3Mb broadband services
? Start the New Year in the fast lane

ntl, the UK?s leading provider of broadband internet services, today unveiled plans to unleash the potential of its fibre optic cable network by launching three super-speed broadband internet services. Available in early 2005, the new services will offer 1Mb, 2Mb and 3Mb broadband connections.

Having been the first company to offer UK consumers a choice of speeds at great value prices, ntl believes that the time is right to offer higher speeds while maintaining mass market prices.

By focusing on more speed ntl is enhancing the part of the broadband service that will make the most difference to customers such as fast downloading of music, emailing digital photos in an instant or delivering high quality video performance.

The three new services will be highly competitive:

?17.99 per month: ntl 1Mb Broadband (monthly usage allowance 20GB) will offer super speed broadband for 60p a day. For the same price BT Broadband offers a basic 512K service with 1GB usage allowance.

?24.99 per month: ntl 2Mb Broadband (monthly usage allowance 30GB) will operate at a stunning speed, but at a price that?s in line with most 512K ADSL services. For the same price BT Broadband offers a 512K service with 15GB usage allowance

?37.99 per month: ntl 3Mb Broadband (monthly usage allowance 40GB) will operate at up to 60 times faster than dial up services. BT and Wanadoo do not provide 2Mb or 3Mb services.

Aizad Hussain, managing director of ntl said: ?Our new services are highly competitive and leave rivals stuck in the slow lane. Having led the way towards choice and value propositions I?m delighted that we?re now leading the pack once again by launching these new super-speed services at affordable prices.

"At ntl, we remain committed to be the product and service pioneers in the broadband market. We significantly boosted our newsgroup capacity earlier this year and now we are raising speeds. We are actively taking steps to invest more in our email service and we will be working hard to protect our customers with new anti-virus programmes and protection measures to ensure that the ntl internet experience remains a family-friendly environment.

?We now serve well over 1m broadband residential customers which is over 35% of our total customers and with our new speeds, our product will be the best in the UK by some distance. We continue to be the company that leads from the front to make the vision of Broadband Britain a reality."

If you already have ntl Broadband your service will remain unchanged, but if you wish to upgrade to the new speeds you can ? for a one-off administration charge of ?25. A dedicated online registration system will be launched in the New Year for existing customers to order an upgrade.

Prices include free installation, free cable modem and free activation. To find out more or to sign up for ntl Broadband please visit www.ntl.com.
Content for super-speed surfing

All customers will be able to access ntl Broadband Plus. For just ?3.99 a month, customers can access 15 premium content channels, which would usually cost over ?35 per month. The content is ideal for high-speed surfing. ntl Broadband Plus offers a massive choice of premium content including: over 500,000 music tracks to stream or download; live music performances 24/7; 16 premium radio channels; over 5000 music videos on demand; an archive of great music, news events and interviews; hundreds of games to download; 15 digital photo prints a month plus online storage for up to 500 pictures; access the online Encyclopaedia Britannica; kids favourites from the BBC as well as the recently launched Napster Music service.

I am an NTL customer and I don?t mind them at all really. I know people say they have problems all the time but I don?t. As for their monthly usage allowance, supposedly they already have one in place of 1GB per day, but I download constantly and it has never effected me.

have not said anything about caps I guess that it has been stated unofficialy somewhere else. All they have announced is the new download speeds. No info yet on upload speeds

Oh well just thought I would pass the info one.

[VR46]

umm, good value, I'm with NTL also, peeved at a ?25 admin charge though, think officially I pay 17.99 for 256k connection (it's tied in with phone and TV).

Nice to see realistic download levels also, none of this 1GB a month b*llocks.

Like you say, touch wood I've not had any probs since February, before then 2 months of misery.

I assume the "old" services will carry on with no download limits ?

Last year I had a "don't take the pee" letter from NTL saying I had used 11GB in 7 days, nothing after that and I download even more nowadays

[Canton Province]

That's beautiful news.

So is this...

If you already have ntl Broadband your service will remain unchanged, but if you wish to upgrade to the new speeds you can ? for a one-off administration charge of ?25. A dedicated online registration system will be launched in the New Year for existing customers to order an upgrade.

[g-funk]

I seriously hope they upgrade the upload speed too.

[Jakeway]

The only thing that is worrying me is the caps. On 1mb I could go over 20gb in just a few slow days.

But this is also making a more competitive market so everybody wins really.

[recipher]

That's a good price - hopefully blueyonder'll bring there price for 3mb down from 50 bar. It's slightly too rich for my blood at the moment.

[edandersen]

3Mb + 40GB cap = er, no.

Imagine sharing that in a house of students. Boom, no internet connection after a week.

[Dazzla]

I'm on 750k at the moment with NTL and I've been running a bandwidth monitor since the 1st of the month to monitor my usage, if I don't hit 30GB then I'm jumping to 2mb.

I don't think the jump in speed with necessarily mean a massive jump in bandwidth.

[bash]

This is good, I have noticed a nice difference since being bumped up to 750k from 600 and no doubt the 1meg will be a tasty too

Im also downloading constantly using BiTTorrent and other stuff, I cant imagine exceeding some of these limits though!!! Its a good job Im at work most of the time as well!

[W.W.III.]

Wow, this is incredible news that will, quite frankly, change my life!

Cheers.

Just hope I can get it where I live

[muddy]

I seriously hope they upgrade the upload speed too.

yeah, they seriously need to address this, because I'd be happier on a slightly slower speed with a better upstream.

[Tom Salter]

Seriously, in this house, 40Gb wouldn't last a few days.

Caps suck ass.

[fuse]

40 gig cap is a bit of a joke really. The two big pulls of broadband are its speed and the fact that it's 'always on', yet NTL seem to have segregated these and can't actually handle people having speed and permanant access at the same time. The price is pretty nice though I must admit, but if they plan on getting strict on these caps it's not really going to be worth it. I'm paying just over ?30 p/m for 2meg DSL, and whilst I could download faster with 3mb, it's not going to do me much good if I can only do it one day per week, and knowing NTL I would say that for gaming I'd rather stick to my current ISP.

[Tom Salter]

It's just a marketing ploy though.

People will now look at NTL and go "ooooh, 3Mb/s! How fast is that!!!" and they'll plump for it over BT or others. However, NTL still get the same traffic through their network, due to the limit. They could probably raise it to 6Mb/s with a 20Gb limit, as they'd still be averaging the same bandwidth usage per month.

[TheShend]

Hey! I just moved into a new flat.

And i've just registered with NTL for 750k BB and phone package for ?24.99pm because BT can only shift their friggin engineer out on the 8th Dec to reconnect the phone?!

The cap for BB is roughly 1G a day, does Xbox LIVE use this in any way? i don't download a great deal tbh, so a gig a day on the face it seems fine for myself and the missus for our usual internet use.

I'm not entirely sure how it all works with upload and downlaod rates etc. So am i about to royally screwed in the ass or will i come out smelling of roses.

Sorry to go slightly OT.