When we were living in Brighton we used to have cable TV and Internet from NTL who, despite their bad reputation, I never had a seconds problem with and was always very happy with their service and would certainly recommend them to others. However the only reason we went with NTL was because we didn't have a BT phone line and BT wanted to charge us over £150 & dig up our garden to put one in. At our new house though we do have a BT line and rather than go back to NTL I wanted to choose a new ISP and take advantage of the various deals out there, many of which are cheaper than NTL anyway.