Telewest Broadband Improve Service!!!!

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Posted by dj_mdma on Apr-27-2004 18:45:

Telewest Broadband Improve Service!!!!

Telewest is increasing the speed of its cable broadband services for more than 450,000 punters - and isn't going to charge them a bean.

A spokeswoman said there were no strings attached to the upgrade, no hidden price rises or usage caps.

The UK cableco is revamping its range of blueyonder Internet products to offer faster speeds for the same price as existing services. The 50 per cent speed upgrade means that the standard blueyonder broadband service will increase in speed from 512Kb to 750Kb, but still cost from only £25 per month.

Telewest's 1Mb is boosted to 1.5Mb while the 2Mb service gets wound up to a 3Mb service. Telewest's recently launched entry-level 256k service is not included in the speed shift.

Chad Raube, Telewest's director of Internet services, said: "This is the biggest shake-up in the broadband market for some time. We feel it's time to give customers a broadband boost for no extra cost and offer them something they can't get from any other broadband provider. Combined with the existing benefits of our internet products, this will make choosing blueyonder a no-brainer."

Work to upgrade the network to handle the increased speed is due to be completed by the end of May.

taken from some register

sweet news for me

Posted by Misty Kitty on Apr-27-2004 18:59:

quote:
Telewest's 1Mb is boosted to 1.5Mb

Thats me

Posted by jon on Apr-27-2004 19:15:

apperently ntl are doing the same thing

Posted by sykadelik on Apr-27-2004 19:33:

quote:
Originally posted by jon
apperently ntl are doing the same thing

Yep they are:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/0...west_broadband/

Posted by KilldaDJ on Apr-27-2004 20:43:

now if only tiscali did that.

i would be happy.

Posted by mentalbarter on Apr-27-2004 20:45:

theyd better do it quick, only have telewest till end june

Posted by Rick D on Apr-27-2004 20:46:

quote:
Originally posted by Misty Kitty
Thats me

show off

cant be a bad thing, i wonder if the prices will increase in about 6 months though. They cut my bll by �2 a month about three months ago

Posted by Cru54d3r on Apr-27-2004 21:26:

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600K service is to increase to 750K

thats a nice 50% upgrade aint it

Posted by Coup on Apr-28-2004 16:09:

quote:
Originally posted by Cru5ad3r
thats a nice 50% upgrade aint it

"NTL is to boost the speed of its broadband service at no extra cost - mimicking a similar announcement made by Telewest earlier today.

NTL's entry-level 150K service is upgrading to 300k although the price will remain �17.99 a month. The 600K service is to increase to 750K (�24.99) while its 1MB service ramps up to 1.5MB (�37.99).

NTL's gear-shift will take place in the summer, a little later than Telewest, which upgrades in May."

where does it say they were upping by 50%?

Posted by Cru54d3r on Apr-28-2004 16:34:

quote:
Originally posted by Coup
where does it say they were upping by 50%?

quote:
The 50 per cent speed upgrade ..

quote:
NTL is to boost the speed of its broadband service at no extra cost - mimicking a similar announcement made by Telewest earlier today.

well near enough ..

Posted by DRM on Apr-28-2004 17:12:

MINT, i got 1mb telewest pretty chuffed with that to be fair. i guess this only affects download and not upload tho

Posted by mentalbarter on May-12-2004 08:58:

Looks like this has happened up in newcastle
Now getting download speeds of up to 9OkB/sec, improvement on max of 60

Posted by dj_mdma on May-12-2004 09:58:

oh yeah forgot all about this, i've had this since the beginning of May

I did find that my connection did keep on being dropped, and i thought that was blueyonders fault, but it was because i had a virus

Posted by DRM on May-12-2004 16:03:

yeah mines been upgraded too, tho aint managed to max the connection out much yet. did get 180kb/s download yesterday tho