[HPFGU-OTChatter] Need advice from UK residents on services

[Ladi lyndi]

--- GulPlum wrote:
> Oh well, if NTL services are available, then
> most of my previous post was 
> pretty pointless. :-) 
> As for not being able to get through to 0800
> numbers, that's hardly 
> surprising. As I said in another thread about
> UK telephone numbers 
> recently, 0800 numbers are "free call" numbers,
> and like US 1-800 numbers, 
> can't be used from outside the originating
> country. 

Lynn:

NTL is available but exactly what is available is
what is confusing to me.  From what I gather,
they can provide us with a second phone for our
computer but can't provide internet service.  So
the other information you provided is certainly
not pointless.  And, they gave their
international rates as up to 75% of BT's daytime,
weekday calls.  Well, gee, that still doesn't
tell me how much it will cost me to call the US
and Holland since you're right, that will
probably be the majority of our calls.  I also
couldn't find out what they considered local. 
We'll live in one town and hubby will work in
another so do I get the unlimited local or do I
have to get the unlimited national if I want to
call him.  LOL  So, thank you very much for a
number I can call directly.  It may well be that
we end up with one company for TV, one for the
phone, and one for the internet.

I was surprised by not getting through to British
800 numbers as I can call US 800 numbers.  I just
get a recording that says the call will not be
free to someone calling outside the calling area
and if I don't want to be charged, hang up now. 
When I don't hang up, I'm connected and it's
charged as a regular call.  I figured it worked
the same way in the UK.

I'm not surprised about the waiting time, I've
heard it could be long which is why I'm trying to
get things started now and hopefully will have
everything in place by the end of July.

The number of TV channels come with the NTL
package, all for one basic rate which was only 3
pounds more than the smaller package plus we had
more telephone options with it, including the
international call package.  They did have a list
of foreign channels you can subscribe to but as
none of them were for the Dutch stations, we
wouldn't need those.  The only other channel we
would consider getting would be the Disney
package for our daughter.  We have two TVs but
after seeing the cost of getting a second box,
we're reconsidering that option.  LOL  We also
declined the NTL version of Web-TV. ;)  We tried
asking some people from the Dutch community there
about all this but they were pretty clueless.

I was laughing when going through the NTL website
as when I clicked on information for the
international calling plan I got something on
phone and surf which had nothing to do with the
plan itself.

Another thing I laughed about was NTL's bundle of
exta phone services, such as call waiting.  They
give you 7 options and you can pick 6 of them for
a set price.  The problem is, if you pick one
particular option, you can't use two of the other
options so the most you can use is 5.  Therefore,
you end up paying more for the 5 than you would
if you could have picked 6.  LOL

There are so many cables running into this house
that we're trying to find out from the owner just
what all those cables are.  Since this is an
investment property, I'd bet some of those wires
will open up other possiblities.

Oh, the joys of moving from one country to
another.  LOL

Lynn

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