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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:
The only restrictions we know of are that
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