Just checked the Sky pages about their version of events with Virgin Media.
http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skyco...ntentid=646110
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We believe in giving our customers more for less. When we launched our new broadband service last year, we discovered just how much people were being charged by cable and BT. So we offered Sky TV customers Sky Broadband with up to 16Mb download speeds and a wireless router for just £10 a month, vs £35 a month for an up to 10Mb service with NTL/Virgin. Great television and big savings are why more than 8 million families are choosing to be with Sky. To find out more about how much you could save go to www.sky.com/save.
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They refer to "upto 16Mb per month. I'm not sure how many people are likely to be able to get this speed - I live about 3 miles from the exchange, and checking on
www.broadbandchecker.com it shows that I should get
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Your line should be capable of supporting download speeds up to 1Mb (around 20 times faster than dial-up)
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So a more fair comparison would be
Virgin Media's television
and 2MB Broadband (that's twice as fast as Sky could manage) for £20 per month.
You can't compare
Upto speeds which are very very dependant on where you live.