Re: BT to offer 100Mbit broadband
 

The reason for the difference is the market, the uk market is very strange compared to others. The market here is typically cut throat price wars which means quality drops and there is no investment in future technologies. All the isps are scared to invest because it means higher prices and all the uk consumer is looking for is lowest price.

Most of the blame has to be placed with ofcom as they built the current market by breaking BT up and forcing competition on adsl, this has affected the cable broadband VM/NTL/telewest. The lack of regulation has allowed very dubious advertising which in turn discourages investment in the infrastructure.

Re: BT to offer 100Mbit broadband
 

That explains Tiscali and TalkTalk's actions then.

With tiscali in London and Stevenage, you are able to get around 1.5mb broadband or 2mb if your really lucky,Free weekend calls and equivalent of Virgin Media's L TV package for about £21 per month. I reckon they are just doing this to get a big customer base and then sell it off for a nice price as i've heard Vodafone and Carphone warehouse are interested in it.

Maybe it would do Virgin Media some good to buy it, that will resolve some problems in the non-cabled streets as there are a few in London. Tiscali TV is what used to be Homechoice.

Cable and Wireless just dont like the residential sector for that very reason you stated. They announced that ''Users dont pay up quickly enough'' and that ''They dont see further than the word ''FREE''. Thats why they are sticking to large companies at the moment. Although they hold a few residential customers which were not included in the sale of Bulldog, Pipex-Tiscali would not take them on board because they owed so much money to Bulldog. So they were retained by Cable and Wireless and were sent letters giving them 30 days notice basically stating ''Pay up or get off our LLU network''

Re: BT to offer 100Mbit broadband
 

VM would do well away to stay away from tiscali.

1 - crap infrastructure, only capable of dialup speeds at peak. VM would have to invest heavily or get more bad reputation.
2 - Although lots of customers they are the customers to avoid they at tiscali for the reason they only prepared to pay basement prices for services, tiscali isnt making a profit.

Re: BT to offer 100Mbit broadband
 

1. Sounds pretty much like VM's infrastructure atm ;)