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NTL cable modems: £40pcm (4 May 1999)

At last - broadband access!

The press release snuck out on the day before a Bank Holiday weekend ... but NTL have announced their cable modem plans.

The tariff is set at £40pcm for access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with no usage charges. The downstream bandwidth is 512Kb/sec; we don't know the upstream bandwidth. The cable modem must be bought outright from NTL at £150, and users also need an Ethernet card which they can either supply themselves or buy from NTL.

For the first two months (May and June 1999) there will be a trial in Guildford, the triallists only paying £20pcm for those months, followed by a very fast rollout:

  • July 1999 - Surrey (full) and Hampshire;
  • August - Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire;
  • September - Nottingham and Leicester;
  • October - Cambridge, Oxford and Reading;
  • November - South Wales and Glasgow;
  • December - Northern Ireland;
  • January 2000 and onwards - TBD.

The only restrictions we know of are that

  • users will not be allowed to run servers;
  • at the moment the service is PC-only.

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