MICROSOFT AND NTL in the UK have teamed up to offer a Broadband+Console service – an extra fiver a month on your 600K or 1MB broadband service if you have one from the provider. The service claims that you can have your computer and Xbox connected to the Internet at the same time. Obviously the Xbox is a cut down computer too.
And NTL is also offering to give you a free upgrade worth £30 for signups before the 28th of February this year. In its blurb, NTL says that home broadband+console 600K service will cost £213 cheaper than going down the BT Openwoe route.
Although monthly subscriptions are the same at thirty quid, BT charges you 100 quid for a routing device, while it also charges 10 quid for a phone line, per month. This, then, means either war, or that BT Openworld will slash its costs. OK, then, it's war.
That means, claims NTL, that the first year cost for NTL is £360 while with BT the first year service – without Xbox is £572.88.
News source: The Inq
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