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MontyMole
05-08-2006, 14:42
This weekend my gran is moving house and she cant get NTL in her new place. She is moving from one set of wardended accommodation to another and has little choice in the matter.

She would have liked to stay with NTL, she only wanted some of the channels Living, UKTVGold along with ITV2 etc and was happy on the select pach which cost her around £16 per month including phone.

Her new place has a communal satellite disk and her only option is Sky and BT. So to get the channels she wants and a phone line she will have to spend around £25 per month.

Plus with NTL she has had very few problems and when she did have a fault they sent round an engineer and the box was switched within 48 hours.

She worries that with Sky, if something goes wrong after the first 12 months she will have to pay out for a call out.

So NTL are loosing a customer who like them through no fault of theirs. Shame really.

a good help
05-08-2006, 17:26
it may be better for you to get a freeview stb, you wont get topup tv anymore as thats coming to an end, but she can get ITV2 and all the other ftv tv, or the other option would be to get free to veiw sky tv, £150 and thats all you pay, but she would have to subb to get ukgold. are you sure that NTL are not at the warden flats? as ntl do provide to many flats??

MovedGoalPosts
05-08-2006, 17:27
:welcome: to Cable Forum :D

communal aerial indicates it's a block of flats. Unfortunately the calbe cos., telco's indeed any service suppliers need easements from the freeholder of the blocks to allow the supply of any services. Most freeholders or management companies went for the least hassle route, given they probably had a terrestrial communal aerial system of bolting on Sky. ntl would have required rewiring of each flat.

IanGuy
06-08-2006, 11:47
Hmm, I don't know much about it; but FreeSat could be an option.

MovedGoalPosts
06-08-2006, 11:49
Dunno that freeview would be an option. A lot of communcal aerial systems aren't up to the job :(

Shaun
06-08-2006, 16:38
Hmm, I don't know much about it; but FreeSat could be an option.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Pace-sky-digital-box-good-freesat-box-free-sky_W0QQitemZ110015447581QQihZ001QQcategoryZ96970Q QrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Plus a £20 freesat card off Sky would do her.

Then all you need is a BT line at 10.50 and an account with 1899.com (or who ever) and she'll be saving a bundle every month :)