NTL doing a good job of loosing dial up customers. What other options are there ?

martinranson

Hi,
got a letter from NTL telling me that they will be charging a flat 3p/min for dial up internet from 1st september which sucks. Does anyone know if there are any other services that can be used on an NTL line ? I know that some of them don't work.
I can't justify broadband as I am a very infrequent user.
Cheers
Martin.

gizmos

martinranson wrote:

Hi,
got a letter from NTL telling me that they will be charging a flat 3p/min for dial up internet from 1st september which sucks. Does anyone know if there are any other services that can be used on an NTL line ? I know that some of them don't work.
I can't justify broadband as I am a very infrequent user.
Cheers
Martin.

AOL should work - they do a £4.95 package which give you so many hours a month not sure how many though

ben500

martinranson wrote:

Hi,
got a letter from NTL telling me that they will be charging a flat 3p/min for dial up internet from 1st september which sucks. Does anyone know if there are any other services that can be used on an NTL line ? I know that some of them don't work.
I can't justify broadband as I am a very infrequent user.
Cheers
Martin.

I bet you'd justify it if you knew you could get it and your telephone line for a combined price of £9.99pm!

marleyboy

Broadband is cheap enough to justify comparing to any dial up package, its not about how long your on the internet, more about waiting times, I dont for a second miss staring at an egg timer for a page to load, let alone listening to that screech to get me online, for my limited time before i have to re-dial.

Take the dip, youll find it pays itself in dividends

mad_rich

ben500 wrote:

I bet you'd justify it if you knew you could get it and your telephone line for a combined price of £9.99pm!

How can I do that?

martinranson

mad_rich wrote:

How can I do that?

Go on, put me out of my misery :-) itching to know.

ben500

Ntl just give them a call and tell them you heard about the deal for new/returning/existing customers for broadband plus phoneline for £9.99, I was an existing customer paying £17.99 broadband plus £9.99 phone line rental and one phonecall to them got me switched to the deal for 12mths.

There is a thread on here somewhere I'll see if I can drop a link.

Try this

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=77342&highlight=ntl+broadband