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Neil
01-12-2003, 13:38
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/34271.html

No mention on any word for AOL customers who get their BB over the ntl network yet....
philip.j.fry
01-12-2003, 13:49
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/34271.html

No mention on any word for AOL customers who get their BB over the ntl network yet....

More than likely it will be available.
th'engineer
02-12-2003, 09:33
More than likely it will be available.Interesting pricing £34.99 same as NTL £34.99 Could this be the new standard price for 1MB and you do need a BT phone
SMHarman
02-12-2003, 09:41
Interesting pricing £34.99 same as NTL £34.99 Could this be the new standard price for 1MB and you do need a BT phone

Could it lead to NTL dropping their price for 1MB?

AOLs 600k is 27.99 vs NTLs 24.99 the differential of £3 being for the AOL content?

AOL 1Mb is £34.99 vs NTLs 34.99 no premium for content?

Thus NTLs price should fall to 31.99 a month.
Stuart
02-12-2003, 10:13
The £34.99 quoted as the price is a special offer. AOL haven't announced the full price yet.


However, the £34.99 price is a promo price and is only fixed for people who sign up by the end of January. AOL has yet to decide the price for the service from February 1 2004
SMHarman
02-12-2003, 10:22
The £34.99 quoted as the price is a special offer. AOL haven't announced the full price yet.

Their website shows no indication that this is a special offer.
Newspaper says offer ends 31/1, but does not really indicate that this is a promotional price.
ntl customer
02-12-2003, 23:03
Time to download a three-minute video clip

56k - 8 minutes approx

512k - 50 seconds approx

1Mb - 30 seconds approx



Since when have you ever managed to get a three minute video clip at decent quality which is about 1 or 2 megs (judging by the download speed on dialup) ?
handyman
03-12-2003, 01:19
I would not have thought that a 3 min mp3 would be under 2mb nevermind video, most of mine are 4mb ish.
Bifta
03-12-2003, 01:38
Could it lead to NTL dropping their price for 1MB?

AOLs 600k is 27.99 vs NTLs 24.99 the differential of £3 being for the AOL content?

AOL 1Mb is £34.99 vs NTLs 34.99 no premium for content?

Thus NTLs price should fall to 31.99 a month.

My Pipex 1 meg DSL subscription is £33.99 a month inc. vat, and you can get it cheaper elsewhere.

edit: And AOL have to recoup the cost of all them annoying letters and CD's they send out which invariably end up getting binned by 99% of the population. I thought people only used AOL for 2 reasons, 1, they're ignorant of other ISP's or 2, they can't get broadband and use AOL up to the end of the free trial period then either re-register with a different credit card or use a real ISP.
SMHarman
03-12-2003, 09:27
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edit: And AOL have to recoup the cost of all them annoying letters and CD's they send out which invariably end up getting binned by 99% of the population. I thought people only used AOL for 2 reasons, 1, they're ignorant of other ISP's or 2, they can't get broadband and use AOL up to the end of the free trial period then either re-register with a different credit card or use a real ISP.

I would think there are many happy AOL users who like the chat functionality, the provided content, spam filtering and parental controls.

Most internet users want the handholding that AOL provides, not a pure ISP data connection.