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NTL/Telewest at it again! Make the call and save some cash...
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After yesterdays success at reducing my NTL bill by £40- £50, I had a call this evening from disconnections to survey why all their customers were leaving. I was honest told him my husband has just been made redundanct, I did an audit of what we have been watching, about 9 channels only and decided to get a Freeview box for a one off payment. He tried to tell me my telephone deal was only for 3 months.... 12 months I replied on all three lines... ah yes he said... then he said you have been a fantastic and loyal customer... and he would like to offer me the basic package which gives me the 9 channels we watch at £5.50 a month for 12 months. So my £65-£75 bill is now down to £26 a month. A very satisfied customer and a grateful user of your site. Thank you all very much... next move - endowments and who knows what next.0
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Is NTL and Telewest same company?
confused little bit...
Had Landline and Broadband with NTL...
Have cancelled Broadband 2 weeks ago now going to cancel the phone
line too...
Can i get both for around £20 from them if i stay?0 -
vithya wrote:Is NTL and Telewest same company?
confused little bit...
They've just bought Virgin Mobile too and will then re-brand under the Virgin brand name in an attempt to get away from their NT-Hell and Teleworst nicknames.Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.0 -
Heinz wrote:Yes (although not fully merged yet).
They've just bought Virgin Mobile too and will then re-brand under the Virgin brand name in an attempt to get away from their NT-Hell and Teleworst nicknames.
So can i ring 0800 052 0184 to get better deal?
Now im getting billed from Telewest for the phoneline0 -
Spoke to NTL a month ago to say that I was thinking of leaving and what could they do, they offered me 12 mths free phone line rental and 2mb bb for £20. However got my bill and it was much higher.
Just spoke to them and got told that I was bein charged £10.50 for line rental - argued that they had said differently, put through to customer relations, told that I had free line rental for 6mths and customer services were wrong and to call them tomorrow as their systems down. So retentions can look at my account but 5 minutes later services can't??
I just want my bill rectified!0 -
Update - They didn't implement the changes! Just spent half an hour on phone to CS - they offered £8 discount. I wasn't happy with this, so asked to speak to a manager. I was told that he wouldn't put me through as he believed he had solved my isssue (yeah right!). Asked to be put through to disconnections - spoke to a lovely chap! Straight away he upgraded me from 1mb BB to 2mb BB and made it free for 6 months. Lovely! I now only pay £21.50 for TV, Telephone and 2mb Broadband. Fantastic! :j0
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I have called NTL and threathened to leave for talk talk. I am on 3 for 30 package, telly, phone, 1 Mbit Unlimited, + family pack. For 6 month they will give the family pack for half price, and they bumbed up my broadband to 2 Mbit unlimited. So will see after 6 months how talk-talk broadband will be still swamped, and then switch or get a better deal from NTL...
Viktor;)0 -
I have just spoken to NTL. Besides the fact that they are changing to 0845 (my call was 30 minutes) I have managed to get them to reduce their charges.
I was paying
£10.50 line rental
£6.50 Talk Unlimited
£17.99 1mb braodband.
The said that they would do the braodband at £9.99 and I said that htis was not enough.
Finally they have reduced this entire package to £20.50 interesting what one call can do.
THIS IS ONLY FOR A YEAR thougj.0 -
i had 2 ring up again last week cos of a £2 discrepency.told them i wanted 2 go 2 talk talk and the guy straight away offered 2 upgrade me from 2 meg-10meg BB.
so now i pay £21.75
10meg BB
Talk unlimited 24
phone line rental
call barring
b interesting 2 c if they mess up again nxt mth.0 -
Extensive discussion on what deals people have got on Cable Forum
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=45910
I have 1MB BB/Phone line(no package) and Family pack for £30.99 (1MB BB £9.99 for 1 yr, Family pack 1/2 price for six months, ends next month). Not wishing to be greedy, but is this still a good price or are there better deals to be had?
Many thanks
Anon0
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