ntl Press Release

jwt

Received today from messrs ntl

MEDIA RELEASE
25th November 2004


ntl Ireland & ESB Telecom in new Agreement


* Agreement paves way for roll-out of ntl Broadband to Galway &
Waterford
* Added benefits for domestic & business customers


ntl Ireland and ESB Telecom announced today that they have concluded an
agreement that extends the reach of ntl Ireland's network. Using ESBT's
recently completed national fibre optic network, ntl will be able to
provide a full range of services and Internet access to Irish consumers
and businesses.

Under the agreement ESB Telecoms will supply high quality bandwidth
services between major nodes on its network to ntl. This bandwidth will
provide ntl with additional network resources required to enable roll-out
of broadband to other parts of ntl's network areas.

During Q3, 2004, ntl Ireland commenced an investment programme to enable
its network to deliver broadband services to consumers and now has over
66,500 homes marketable for broadband. Today reinforces that commitment
to the Irish marketplace and will support ntl in its drive to deliver
broadband services to the rest of its network.

John McSweeney, General Manager of ESB Telecoms said: "This agreement is a
further step towards broadening the distribution of broadband and digital
TV services in Ireland. We are delighted to support ntl Ireland in their
drive to roll-out broadband and business services to other regions in
Ireland and we look forward to a productive and successful working
relationship."

Commenting on the partnership, Graham Sutherland, Managing Director of ntl
Ireland added: "It is critical for Ireland to have a world-class ICT
infrastructure. We at ntl Ireland have made a commitment to the Irish
marketplace and today's agreement adds further momentum to our broadband
expansion programme, which will deliver new services to our domestic and
business customers. This move also supports the government's desire to
roll out broadband to the regions and ntl is determined to be a major
player in all such initiatives."

-ENDS-

John

SkepticOne

Well done NTL. Good to see a bit more competition.

spongebob

Galway City is getting quite competitive now, Smart are also lurking around there !

M

crawler

Competition is always a good thing for the consumer! more of it!!

jwt

Every bit helps, and consumers in Waterford and Galway can look forward to choice and competition.

And while I am at it, well done to ntl for ensuring we got their press release.


John

shinzon

im gonna be shot for asking this but any idea when this will actually be rolled out in waterford

Shin

SkepticOne

shinzon wrote:

im gonna be shot for asking this but any idea when this will actually be rolled out in waterford

I heard that it will be in all parts of Waterford except the bit you are in.

jesus_thats_gre

SkepticOne wrote:

I heard that it will be in all parts of Waterford except the bit you are in.

genius!

aaronc

Having a quick peak at NTL's broadband offerings I notice the price has dropped by about €5 since I last looked. What's the story with 300K down/64K up though? Half a broadband connection?

I would have thought with a cable into a house they could offer 5M up/ 5M down sort of products. Seems like a bit of waste of effort to deploy a Ireland wide optical fibre network and then the best you can get from it is 1500K down/ 256K up. For someone like me wanting to use their BB connection for VoIP 256K up at 17:1 contention is not going to cut it let alone 64K!

Aaron

Blaster99

Surely VoIP works over 256kbps?

I don't really understand the limited upload speeds either. I can understand that Eircom are doing it to protect their leased line rip-off, but what's the deal with the other providers? I presume it's to prevent people from providing services on the network or something, but even then it's a bit hard to understand what the big deal is.

shinzon

SkepticOne wrote:

I heard that it will be in all parts of Waterford except the bit you are in.

rofl genius indeed

and is probably to close to the mark for comfort

i can imagine it now

dring dring

hi this is mister so and so can i have your super duper broadband please

ntl rep

hmm just a moment, scampers off to eircom,

ntl rep to phil nolan

you wont believe who i got on the phone

phil nolan

oh no not him, "right"says phil, "nothing for it well just have to buy ntl an heap more misery on the poor sod"

ntleircomrep

sorry sir were under new management, even though its got nothing to do with your phoneline, you cable lines failed

me

what preposterous im off to comreg about this

ntleircomrep

sorry sir our cable line doesnt stretch that far good bye


shin

Gadgie

Shame you have to subscribe to their piss poor basic TV service in order to get the broadband service.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

Awk, anyone know if they have *any* plans for North Dublin?

Have we been forgotten about? I can't even get NTL digital....

No wireless providers on this side either.

ambrose :cool:

spongebob

kingambrose wrote:

Awk, anyone know if they have *any* plans for North Dublin?

North Dublin was the first or second place in Ireland to get BB of any sort. Malahide and Swords in 1997, Cable BB too.

North Dublin was the first place on the planet to lose all BB service for 4 years until DSL became available.

Chorus bought the Cable provider and shut down the BB ....Chorus still owns the cable in North Dublin , ask them when they intend to turn it on.

HTH

M

sci0x

They had started giving out broadband as early as 1997!? Didnt realise that at all.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

Muck,
Thanks for that. NTL own our cable (Portmarnock). Even my basic cable is crap.
Complaint after complaint and still nothing has changed. (don't want to go with Sky)

Ah well.... hopefully cable BB will arrive here one day

ambrose :cool:

aaronc

Blaster99 wrote:

Surely VoIP works over 256kbps?

Actually can work well over 13Kbps or even 9Kbps uncontended. I have a 512Kbps connection that allows usable VoIP at most times except on week nights when everyone else is on the internet as well and my ISP's internet link is maxed out. Unfortunately this is the time when I make phone calls.

I'd prefer quality of service on my connection but as that doesn't look like happening in the forseeable future I figure a 5 or 10 meg pipe in the form of a cable broadband connection would have a better chance of getting a 13Kbps stream out.

Dreaming .

Hannibal_12

Excuse my ignorance but are any of NTL's broadband services available in the Drumcondra, Santry area of Dublin.