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NTL Cable Internet

  • 26-07-2002 12:39am
    #1
    milltown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,618 ✭✭✭


    Has anyone here any experience of their cable service?
    Up until the end of last summer I was living in Tallaght and giving serious consideration to thinking about posibly making some enquiries about their offer but at the time it was shaking out at the guts of £300 installation and equipment plus about £50 a month if I remember correctly, plus I was about to buy a house so I gave it a miss.
    Now, almost a year down the road I find myself happily ensconced in said house in lovely Lucan and I check the NTL website. Wow! says I. I can now rent the equipment to try out the service and be connected for something like €35 a month. I'll have some of that I says and get straight on the phone. Tell the guy the address and he says sorry it's only available in Tallaght for now, Lucan will be at least a year. Bugger!
    So now I'm wondering if it may be worth waiting for or should I pin all my hopes on Beam?
    I do realise the folly of this post as anyone with a flat rate, always on connection will be far from this forum but I am wondering.


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  • #2
    SkepticOne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,718 ✭✭✭SkepticOne


    I would not put my faith in any company. Beam, AFAIK, are not planning overnight coverage of Ireland. I think they are just getting in to their pilot phase. I know nothing about the company but I suspect that funding will need to be sought in order to extend the service. Good luck to them. I hope they succeed and we certainly need companies like them providing competiton.

    It could also be that this other company that Dannger talks about that arrives in your area first. Who knows.

    NTL apparently stopped upgrading some time ago and are concentrating on selling cable modem services within their existing upgraded areas. They may start upgrading again.


  • #3
    ando
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭ando


    Originally posted by SkepticOne
    They may start upgrading again.

    HAHAHAHHA ...... Muahahahahahahahahahaha.. hahahah hehehe .. ah man, you crack me up.. seriously :D:D


  • #4
    SkepticOne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,718 ✭✭✭SkepticOne


    Originally posted by ando


    HAHAHAHHA ...... Muahahahahahahahahahaha.. hahahah hehehe .. ah man, you crack me up.. seriously :D:D
    I don't believe they will for the forseable future. NTL upgrading will depend on two things: 1) funding from their parent company, 2) competitive threat from Sky, DTV etc. Neither of these are in place at the moment. Nevertheless, the possibility remains that they may upgrade some time in the future.


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