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Mauldor · 11-04-2004, 00:09

Well the problem i feel on the whole is the UK - lack of planning in the first part means unable to extend to much faster speeds later on without lots of road digging and so forth.

I know this is not relenevt to this converstaion and has ben said many time before but we are been left behind by a lot of other countries out there in how much you pay for what speed.

Holand for example - mate of mine pays about 35 quid to get 8mbit / 1 mbit (not sure on thw rest of the rules like) which is madness compared to what we got. Now Bulldog if you live in a majot city have variable bandwidth - so during the day you have 512/256 as normal and after 6pm you get upto 8mbit i think / 400.

Now if for example NTL were to raise the price of 1mbit BUT after a certain time (say 6pm) you got a lot more bandwith then im sure we would happily stay with them and not complain.

Myself - Cable Modem is hanging in there by a thread - ive already got rid of Phone and TV box thing when they brought in that 1gig day crap (even though they never enforced it). Im a long term user like a lot of you. If NTL raise the price im 100% off to get ADSL (which i can get) - not that anybody cares like.

11-04-2004, 00:09	#362
Mauldor Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Scunthorpe Age: 58 Services: 50mbit, Base TV, Base Phone Posts: 437	Re: Price increase Well the problem i feel on the whole is the UK - lack of planning in the first part means unable to extend to much faster speeds later on without lots of road digging and so forth. I know this is not relenevt to this converstaion and has ben said many time before but we are been left behind by a lot of other countries out there in how much you pay for what speed. Holand for example - mate of mine pays about 35 quid to get 8mbit / 1 mbit (not sure on thw rest of the rules like) which is madness compared to what we got. Now Bulldog if you live in a majot city have variable bandwidth - so during the day you have 512/256 as normal and after 6pm you get upto 8mbit i think / 400. Now if for example NTL were to raise the price of 1mbit BUT after a certain time (say 6pm) you got a lot more bandwith then im sure we would happily stay with them and not complain. Myself - Cable Modem is hanging in there by a thread - ive already got rid of Phone and TV box thing when they brought in that 1gig day crap (even though they never enforced it). Im a long term user like a lot of you. If NTL raise the price im 100% off to get ADSL (which i can get) - not that anybody cares like.