By Jo Best, 6 December 2005 15:00
NEWS
NTL has become the latest ISP to boost its broadband speeds to double figures.
NTL has followed the news of its bid for Virgin Mobile with the announcement it's ramping up its speed to up to 10Mbps.
NTL customers with 3Mbps connections will be the first to see their speeds boosted and the ISP has promised to cut their monthly bill by £3 early next year. Upstream speeds will also be increased, to 500Kbps.
The increased speed is thought to be part of NTL's interest in pushing its content offerings, such as video-on-demand.
As part of the new 10Mbps package, NTL will be offering free content including MTV clips and online gaming, as well as educational content aimed at children.
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1. anonymous
Yes, its only magic if you currently have a Cable Modem. But for all those who get 3Mb through a Samsung Set-Top-Box you will be limited to a "possible" maximum of 5Mb.
Of course, NTL have offered to fit a CM for the grand price of £50, but meanwhile all the STB users will be paying the same price as the CM users, and in effect susidising their 10Mb.
2. misceng
Nice to know NTL are trying to catch up on broadband speeds that Asian countries regard as normal. What would help a lot is if they treated the unfortunates who become their customers properly and did not blame the failures of their system on the customers set up.
Many times I have had trouble with my NTL connection and been told that my email software (Turnpike) is at fault. I do not change my software but the system recovers hours later when their engineers correct the fault at their end. The people at the call centre think that because the server which feeds email to their web pages is working the server which email clients connect to for downloading email is also workling.
3. anonymous
The telecoms should be pushing faster on these data rate increases. Currently the ADSL2+ spec allows for a max DS of 26MBps, soon VDSL2+ will allow for 50MBps, these telecoms need to start making the investments before wireless and cable ISPs put them and their copper out of business.