Hi all,

I've been with NTL (initially Bell Cable Media via Mercury, then C&W, now NTL) since mid '97.

NTL World does not exist in Norwich, the old Mercury exchange will not support it. I've had the NTL World CD from early last year - but the local exchange has not routing for / does not recognise the NTL World 0800 number.

Pressing NTL abount this has repeatedly given "coming in a few months" answer. Last time I asked (c. March '01) I got a story about NTL wondering if they should roll out the existing NTL World on V.90 kit OR jump to all-digital. Latter route is strategic but needs a new exchange = even more money & time.

NTL are supplying digital TV here, so it might change.

Let's call them now... 5 people later: OK. Broadband replaces NTL World, there are no roll-out dates for the Norwich area for Broadband. The sales drone I spoke to could only parrot that; they knew no more.

DHYB

Steve

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Joss Winn wrote:

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So is this BT deal, just a 56k dialup? Has 128K ISDN taken off in the UK? It's all the rage here in Japan.

I havn't heard of any FRIACO ISP's that allow 128k ISDN? is this now available?, there are now other FRIACO deals where some ISP's are allocating a fixed amount of time online for a fixed fee. This is what I am using at the moment and I don't get kicked after 2 hours (but I havn't found out what happens if I use more than my allocated time yet).

If you are in a NTL Cable serviced area and want cable tv and take NTL's package you should automagically get two telephone lines and free dial-up with NTL World, this would give you a 2 hour kick off but I do know someone at work who is using this with automatic recconection for over a year to get free 24/7 access. I don't know if this applys in Norwich though as it is an old C&W serviced area, although the Digital tv has just

been launched there which means Cable Modems should not be to far behind.

Oh yeah and if NTL release Cable modems in Norwich you will probably find BT will magically offer ADSL about a week after launch, and the reverse

of that statement is also probably true. :)

hmm, still seems dial-up in the UK isn't cheap, you just pay loads upfront

now for a fixed time online...

Adam

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