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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Of course, I get similiar on thinkbroadband, there is a couple of guys there who spend all day defending BT and their policies and do nothing else (again whats their motivation as they are not posting in a neutral stance?).
I cannot pass judgement on LLU with VM yet as it depends on how they market such products, if they market the products as an equal to their cable services I will have a problem with it.
In regards to analogue their is some analogue areas that do have cable broadband, if VM were to replace the analogue broadband service with a copper LLU service they would effectively be downgrading it so it will be interesting to see if they keep the broadband service up in these areas.
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I don't feel the need to defend VM they are a company who i pay to provide me with a service. A service so far i have been relatively happy with. If i feel your points aren't valid then i will disagree and give the reasons why. There is nothing like a good old fashioned debate, i don't have a problem with you and i am sorry if you think i am being off with you because it really is not my intention Chrysalis. I just think some of your points are ill informed or from you personal opinion and are not the opinion of the majority of people and therefore do not relate to everyone else.
Analogue is an old system in the dark ages, the problems you experience are not relative to the vast majority and the network will be left to rot until VM can cable it with it being financilly viable. Currently there is too much debt. I don't see why they wouldn't keep BB up in those areas but the majority of analogue areas do not have bb if they do, they are very lucky. Why couldn't Vm offer a iptv service through their BB to analogue areas where it's available rather than use LLU and therefore copper networks?
I don't particularly think the LLU service will be anything to write home about and it will have it's bugs just like other IPTV companies. Customers bb experience will yet again depend on distances from the exchange. Some customers living next to the exchange will be very happy like BE* customers are but then the majority living further away will have problems. The only thing that i think will set Vm out from the others is if they can keep their prices competitive and keep VOD free for their top paying customers. This is where BT vision could be a really great service but it lacks.