UPC analogue price increase

Mailman

The price has gone up again.
When I first signed up in January '03 ago the price was €17 p.m. now it is €24.50 per month. That's an increase of over 44% and if I'm correct bi-monthly billing has been introduced in the interim too. I feel the channel selection is poorer than it was back then.
I canceled my contract because I feel it represents very poor value and am now picking up 4 terrestrial channels for free(license excluded).
Does anyone else feel the Analogue service represents very very poor value for money?
Anyone got examples of charges for a similar service abroad.

GerardKeating

Mailman wrote: »

The price has gone up again.
When I first signed up in January '03 ago the price was €17 p.m. now it is €24.50 per month. That's an increase of over 44% and if I'm correct bi-monthly billing has been introduced in the interim too. I feel the channel selection is poorer than it was back then.
I canceled my contract because I feel it represents very poor value and am now picking up 4 terrestrial channels for free(license excluded).
Does anyone else feel the Analogue service represents very very poor value for money?
Anyone got examples of charges for a similar service abroad.

They move to UPC basic digital, it is cheaper then the analogue, and you also get the analogue bundled with it. It is only €20

DingDong

Mailman wrote: »

The price has gone up again.
When I first signed up in January '03 ago the price was €17 p.m. now it is €24.50 per month. That's an increase of over 44% and if I'm correct bi-monthly billing has been introduced in the interim too. I feel the channel selection is poorer than it was back then.
I canceled my contract because I feel it represents very poor value and am now picking up 4 terrestrial channels for free(license excluded).
Does anyone else feel the Analogue service represents very very poor value for money?
Anyone got examples of charges for a similar service abroad.

You could of went with the digital value pack its works out cheaper than analogue plus you get more channels. You still get to keep analogue too and it would of reduced your bill to 20 euro a month.
link

Mailman

The customer reps in UPC made absolutely no effort to sell this to me but I don't think I want it anyhow.
No notification in the bill that a cheaper more fully featured service is available.

I'll cancel anyhow. If I feel I need to see more channels than the four I've got then I'll try out DTT when it arrives.
Never really liked NTL as a company.

edit: thanks for the suggestions. you're more helpful than the guys in UPC and it's not even your job.

DingDong

Mailman wrote: »

The customer reps in UPC made absolutely no effort to sell this to me but I don't think I want it anyhow.
No notification in the bill that a cheaper more fully featured service is available.

I'll cancel anyhow. If I feel I need to see more channels than the four I've got then I'll try out DTT when it arrives.
Never really liked NTL as a company.

If you think ntl is bad value you can check out boxer expected linup on wikipedia
link

Boxer TV line up (per their submission)
Starter Pack FTA + 7 channels ��9.99 per month
• RTÉ ONE
• RTÉ TWO
• TV3
• TG4
• BBC 1
• BBC 2
• UTV
• C4
• Discovery
• Eurosport
• BBC News 24
Boxer pack Starter Pack + 11 channels ��22.99 per month
• Sky One
• Living
• Sky News
• Film4
• MTV (time sharing with Nickelodeon)
• Nickleodeon (time sharing with MTV)
• Disney
• E4
• Setanta Ireland
• BBC Ireland (new channel based on BBC 3, BBC 4, CBeebies & CBBC)
• ITV Ireland (new channel based on ITV 2, ITV 3 and ITV 4)
Premium Pack Sport and/or Film additional ��24.99 each per month
• 3 x sports channels
- Either from Setanta or Sky or rights holders direct
• 3 x movie channels
- Either from Sky or UPC or rights holders direct
1
2
3
SPORTS 1
SPORTS 2

Guess who I work for Mailman
where not all bad

Mailman

I'll be trying FTA DTT on the PC before I consider signing up to boxer.

Mailman

DingDong wrote: »

Guess who I work for Mailman
where not all bad

I'm still waiting for the confirmation mail I was told I'd receive within 10 minutes of the call.
I know people on support lines aren't all bad. I worked on one years ago and had to carry more than my share of less competent workmates, calming down customers who had previously come in to contact with them.

DingDong

Mailman wrote: »

I'm still waiting for the confirmation mail I was told I'd receive within 10 minutes of the call.
I know people on support lines aren't all bad. I worked on one years ago and had to carry more than my share of less competent workmates, calming down customers who had previously come in to contact with them.

Can't say I've ever work in a call centre(I wouldn't want that job for any amount of money), I'm on the technical end of things.
But yes the call centre does seem to be the major drawback of the company, it has improved but still has a long way to go. To be fair to them there is alot of hard working people in the call centre but from reading board it still seems to be hit and miss.

Mossy Monk

ITV Ireland and BBC Ireland. Proposed channels for Boxer that don't even exist

mike65

BBC Ireland wtf? While I can see some logic to this, you just know they'll pick and mix exactly the wrong programmes.

swimgal08

mike65 wrote: »

BBC Ireland wtf? While I can see some logic to this, you just know they'll pick and mix exactly the wrong programmes.

ya and rte three ???????????????????

friday1

Yeah NTL price increase is a joke.

I've cancelled my contract with them after years of loyal service.

Got a Free to Air Satellite dish instead.

Also...


"Free to Air Channels on Boxer"
RTÉ One
RTÉ Two
TV3 Ireland
TG4
3e
RTE Three

Thats great!!! It will be a Great compliment to my Free to Air Satellite System.

And also Free!!

Infoanon

How is the price going up when the carriage cost for most channels has gone down due to the 25% fall in Sterling

Its posted on other threads but basically UPC is becoming too dear Vs Sky and in the current climate thats not too clever !

And as for Boxer - I doubt it will be on the air within the next 2 years and I have a feeling the 'package' might be a lot different from what was planned

For the moment Freesat might become more popular in Ireland then its intended audience in the UK

dunworth1

Boxer DTT said it will launch its offering in January 2009. The 12-year licence will enable Boxer to operate three multiplexes (broadcasting networks) providing about 30 channels of digital TV through existing rooftop aerials. The service will debut in major cities and coverage will be extended to the whole country by 2012, when current analogue TV signals are likely to be phased out.

from http://www.electricnews.net/article/10124656.html

snaps

Yep FTA satellite is the way forward. People are even ringing/emailing me about the irish DTT. I cant give them answers. I tell them to hold off getting new aerials installed as everything is up in the air.

watty

The so called BBC Ireland and ITV Ireland is nothing of the sort. It's simply two things:

1) 2 BBC allocations and 1 ITV allocation are part time between Children (daytime, CITV, Cbeebies, CBBC) and other channels such BBC3 & BBC4.

2) They want to combine several BBC/ITV channels part time. BBC/ITV may not permit it.

Infoanon

watty wrote: »

The so called BBC Ireland and ITV Ireland is nothing of the sort. It's simply two things:

1) 2 BBC allocations and 1 ITV allocation are part time between Children (daytime, CITV, Cbeebies, CBBC) and other channels such BBC3 & BBC4.

2) They want to combine several BBC/ITV channels part time. BBC/ITV may not permit it.

From Boxers application:

Furthermore, Boxer has begun negotiations with the BBC and ITV to supply new Irish editions of

international channels, based on the best of BBC 3 and BBC 4, and ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 respectively.

Mailman

How much will a Set Top box cost. I expect a DTT STB isn't much more complicated than a MPEG4 DVD player which you can buy nowadays for €29.

thepotrovk

Get Magnet, I pay 44 euros for Digital TV, internet and phone. And everything works great

Mountjoy Mugger

Do you get teletext with Magnet?

jdscrubs

Hi I agree with all the above.

The last time there was going to be a price increase, they gave advanced notice. This time they didnt. Information came with the new bill.

Has anyone else had trouble when the weather is a bit bad outside that the channels on UPC are crap. I have to go to the normal tv just to watch stuff without the channel stopping&starting. I am going to ring up to give out as this isnt value for money.

Dont know if anyone else does this but the bill is in my name but I havent set up a direct debit, to lazy but they charge you extra cos of this. I know it has been reported on the news before but its kind of stupid.

Dont want to get Sky. Boxer sounds interesting. Is it available now & how do I go about getting it?. If it isnt available, can anyone who has left UPC and gone with another company recommend any other company.