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NTL Broadband UK
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NTL Broadband - 10MB Broadband
A super-fast complete service for Internet
experts. Download music track in less than 4
seconds. No BT line required! You get a massive
75GB monthly usage allowance get FREE premium
music, games & kids content included.
NTL Broadband - 4MB Broadband
Nearly 40 times faster than Dial-up with Unlimited
downloads. You can surf as much as you like. FREE
PC security worth £40 FREE premium content worth
£30 a month! Only £12.49 pm for your first 3
months, then £24.99 per month thereafter.
NTL Broadband - 1MB Broadband
Nearly 20 times faster than Dial-up, with
Unlimited downloads. You can also surf as much as
you like. FREE PC security worth £40 Only £8.99 pm
for your first 3 months, then £17.99 per month
thereafter.
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NTL
Incorporated, a U.S.-listed British company,
provides cable services (internet, telephone and
television) While NTL has its headquarters in New
York City, the company's activities focus heavily
on the United Kingdom, with operational
headquarters in Hook, Hampshire. The company
formed as the result of the 2006 merger of the
UK's two major cable services companies, NTL
Holdings and Telewest Global. The combined company
dominates cable operations in the UK. It also owns
Virgin Mobile (UK) and Virgin.net, which supplies
Internet services via broadband and dial-up.
NTL competes with the Sky Digital platform in the
pay television market, and against BT (and
BT-provided ADSL services) in the voice telephone
and broadband markets. NTL also produces content
through its Flextech subsidiary. In 2005
residential services generated 78% of NTL's
revenue, and business services 22%.
NTL Broadband
NTL offers broadband Internet access connections
through cable and via ADSL. The cable service
predominates, provided through SACMs (Stand-alone
cable modems) and STBs (Set-top boxes).
Current download speeds offered to ntl-branded
cable users include 2 Mbit/s, 4 Mbit/s and 10 Mbit/s.
The NTL services offer upstream bandwidths of
200kbit/s, 400kbit/s and 512kbit/s respectively on
the 2Mbit/s, 4Mbit/s and 10Mbit/s services.
Telewest-branded services offer an upstream of
256kbit/s on their 2Mbit/s service and 384kbit/s
on both their 4Mbit and 10Mbit services.
The broadband services do not have a bandwidth-cap
or a fair-usage policy. NTL did consider employing
traffic-shaping to control the usage of
peer-to-peer (P2P) applications bandwidth, but
abandoned these plans.
For customers who do not live in cabled areas, NTL
offers an ADSL Broadband service through BT
landlines under the Virgin.net brand. NTL supplies
Virgin.net users with an ADSL modem for their PC,
and they receive up to 8 Mbit/s downstream and 400
kbit/s upstream. The service offers various
usage-allowances depending on which package a user
takes. Prior to this NTL offered the NTL Freedom
package, a fixed 1 Mbit/s downstream and 256 kbit/s
upstream service with no limit on usage. NTL
Freedom also bundled phone-services via CPS
(Carrier Pre-Select) to users of their ADSL
Broadband service. NTL has currently started
conducting trials of a 100Mbit broadband service.
No-one knows yet whether or when NTL will make
this service available to all its customers.
After a year of development, the NTL Digital
Network has started to test Broadband TV, a new
interactive service, branded "NTL On demand". This
service allows for customers of NTL Digital
television to have access to interactive services
that equal or out-perform those available on Sky,
as the service runs from servers at the customer's
local head-end, therefore bypassing the need for
the customer's set-top box to do any of the hard
work. It also removes the need to pre-record many
programmes, as the broadcaster automatically
stores content on NTL's servers. NTL Digital makes
available to subscribers in enabled areas a number
of shows for viewing on-demand for up to a week
after their first broadcast. Customers may
download other television-shows, films and music
videos, mostly for an additional fee.
In September 2006 NTL will re-number its cable
television channels, grouping them similarly to
those of other multi-channel television providers.
NTL has confirmed that it intends to launch a
high-definition service in autumn 2006, based on
the service currently offered by Telewest. The
service will use an upgraded set-top-box, with
three tuners and a hard disk for recording. |
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