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I Hate Ntl

  • 24-11-2004 12:46PM
    #1
    HelenD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭


    I hate NTL. I cannot even go into the details again for fear of working myself into such a frenzy of hatred that I induce a heart attack. I am just warning you - stick to your old TV aerial - DO NOT LET THEM NEAR YOUR HOUSE - they will damage your aerial so that it never works again - and when you are finally so enraged with their "all day service call outs" and regular as clock work break-downs - and you attempt to cancel the "service" - you will be told to take yet another day off work to wait for a techician to "verify" that indeed the service is not working - and then they will continue to charge your account anyway - the whole thing is DIABOLICAL no less - Save yourself from turning into a pre-dead quivering wreck like me - and listen to the radio instead - do not sign up to this virtual monopoly which has a stranglehold on the market - I can only hope that when more competition is allowed, that the people everywhere will leave them EN MASSE. The option at the moment is SKY - but what right-minded person would sign up to a service provided by Rupert Murdoch and his evil band of lifeblood-sucking NeoCons?


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  • #2
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    HelenD wrote:
    they will damage your aerial so that it never works again

    but what right-minded person would sign up to a service provided by Rupert Murdoch and his evil band of lifeblood-sucking NeoCons?

    for the tv aerial, if ntl did this then go to the small claims court

    as for Sky, i have it and have no complaints with it
    do you buy any news corp newspapers or are they filling our heads with rubbish and propaganda.

    this thread is going to go nowhere i feel so a close eye will be kept on it


  • #3
    alangui
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭alangui


    Hey there,

    I ordered NTL Digital and again I had to take a half day off work to allow them, into the house. When ordering it I asked if the signal in my area would be strong enough and they assured me that my neightbours had it and it was fine. (I also booked an extension into a bedroom at the same time)

    Engineer comes out, and the usual 'sorry bud, but you don't have a strong enough signal' story. They then had to go to the local exchange and put in a booster. Another day would be required off work to allow them into my house for a second time.

    Second day, engineer discovers that the splitter (think that's right) outside my house is full and a new one is needed. Told I would have to take more time off work.

    NTL 'Customer Service' refused point blank to fix an exact time for the call out, only would say morning or afternoon. Eventually took case to head guy in East Point Business Park who gave an engineer my number and told him to call me when he was in the area at a time that suited me.

    Eventually engineer calls and I take a few mins off work to go home. Digital installed and the engineer says 'I'm Off!'. I asked about the extension which I had booked for the bedroom and he said he wasn't told about that and I would have to get another engineer out to fit that!! Needless to say I am without NTL in the bedroom.

    So after 3 attempts, NTL Digital was installed, and with a 4th attempt I might have got the extension.

    SKY - ring now - have Sky before Christmas - Saturday installations available. Nice Job.

    Think that's about it!
    Alan :mad:
    Happiness is not happiness without a violin playing goat


  • #4
    SteM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭SteM


    All of the 'fupp NTL, get Sky' comments on these boards are annoying. It's not always possible for people to install a dish where they live and so they are stuck with NTL or an ariel, simple as that.


  • #5
    alangui
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭alangui


    Hey man, don't get so worked up about not being able to get Sky! Despite all the crap that went on with NTL I am stuck with them until next June!

    Over 90% of the population me thinks can get Sky, lord know a large percentage already have it. But for those with no choice, NTL is the worst of a small bad lot.

    A :cool:


  • #6
    SteM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭SteM


    alangui wrote:
    Hey man, don't get so worked up about not being able to get Sky! Despite all the crap that went on with NTL I am stuck with them until next June!

    Over 90% of the population me thinks can get Sky, lord know a large percentage already have it. But for those with no choice, NTL is the worst of a small bad lot.

    A :cool:

    Just because you can receive Sky doesn't always mean you can get Sky in. How many people in citys live in apartments now where you're not allowed to put up satellite dishes?


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  • #7
    alangui
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭alangui


    I know that, but Sky COULD be received by people in apartment blocks, I'm not saying it can be received.

    I'm sure someone will correct me on this if I am wrong, but isn't Sky available all over Ireland, so in fact 100% of homes COULD have Sky, whereas not everyone can have NTL (lucky buggers)

    Al :rolleyes:


  • #8
    SteM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭SteM


    Alan, you're missing my point completely. You said:
    SKY - ring now - have Sky before Christmas - Saturday installations available. Nice Job.

    Think that's about it!

    and I simply said that it's not quite as easy as you're making it out to be.
    It's not always possible for people to install a dish where they live and so they are stuck with NTL or an ariel, simple as that.

    So I think people coming on a cable/mmds/broadband board and saying if you hate NTL then get Sky is just pointless. Most apartment blocks will not allow you to put dishes up so it's not a alternative for those people.


  • #9
    eth0_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭eth0_


    A lot will let you put up one dish on the roof and setup a distributed system, though.


  • #10
    SteM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭SteM


    That's true, but speaking from personal experience I've lived in 4 different apartments in Dublin city centre and it's been specified in the 4 diffeent leases that there can be no satellite dishes errected. I've just asked 7 other people here in my office who rent and they all have the same clause (2 other's aren't sure). Another of my co workers who lives in in the IFSC block says they are so strict about dishes there that every 3 or 4 months they bring in a a cherry picker and just take the dishes that have sprung up off the side of the building and store them somewhere.

    From what I know of these distributed systems, are they not mainly set up by the apartment managment company in cases where NTL won't/can't supply a service?


  • #11
    cdc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭cdc


    HelenD wrote:
    - I can only hope that when more competition is allowed, that the people everywhere will leave them EN MASSE.
    The communications regulator, Comreg, were trumpeting on a couple of years ago about how EU law would allow them to force NTL to allow other (semi competent) companies to use their cables and compete with NTL.
    Earlier this year, quel surprise, they decided no - they don't need to, everything's grand.
    ...Luckily for NTL of course. Such a company could not survive in a land of effective communications regulation.


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