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Thursday, August 11 2005

Telewest follows NTL's lead  by James W at 14:49

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As most people expected, Telewest have followed NTL's lead and will be upgrading some customers to 10Mbits.

From next month, the cable company is to begin work upgrading its network on a region-by-region basis. The work is expected to be completed early next year.

Once completed, punters currently hooked up to Telewest's entry-level 512K service will see their speed increased to 2 meg. Those currently hooked up to 1 meg will see their speed accelerate to to 4 meg while the rest will get the full 10 meg.

Prices will remain the same, which means a 10 meg service should cost around £35 a month.

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Tricky
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11 August 2005 14:50
*does a little dance*
Mani
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11 August 2005 15:30
The 10mbit dance?
Stan
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11 August 2005 15:35
bunch of bastards tbh
WUD
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11 August 2005 15:53
WOOOOt, me joins in dancing with Jimbo
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11 August 2005 16:01
Which is different to the speed upgrade announced by NTL earlier this week. It plans to give all its punters 10 meg broadband but they are to be charged for how much they use. ®

ouch! 10meg and charged for ur downloads! could prove costly!
Scrappy
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11 August 2005 16:27
Rah!!! So by the sounds of that, even though we're on 2Mb and not 4 we'll get 10 Meg!!! woooo!!
Scrappy
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11 August 2005 16:27
Uncapped too!!
Maz
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11 August 2005 19:04
*ha ha ha ha!!" you have a download cost.. NTL is issueing a 75GB/month BWlimit with the 10Meg service for existing 3Meg customers \o/ 2megcustomers will be getting 40GB/month probably
Jammin
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11 August 2005 20:05
I cope on 30 GB a month atm... seriously wtf do u guys do to break a 75gb cap ?
Tricky
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12 August 2005 09:40
Might be possible if you share your net with several people/pcs. Otherwise it could be tough to break 75gb... legally.
Maz
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12 August 2005 12:13
lol Jimbo, were running a 5user network so its quite easy.. and i can think of any number of legal ways to break the 75gb cap.. napster (download everything!)


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