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Originally Posted by Bonglet
Wow if thats so then that statement about virgins optical being so much faster is a joke as its there own network surely its cheaper for vm, than compared to the adsl2 providers who provide a better service atm for half the cost and have to pay bt?
Really cant belive that people paying £37 or £42 by non dd for 20mb bb are getting subsidised by lower tiers with all the traffic shaping and other gadgetrey going on.
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BT do not currently provide ADSL 2 services. Any ISP using ADSL 2 *is* using it's own infrastructure apart from the phone line from the exchange to the customer premises. Even then, very few of them (apart from Sky and Carphone warehouse who are able to subsidise the costs from other areas of their business) provide services to anywhere near the amount of people Virgin do.
It's not a case of whether you believe me or not, according to Virgin's own figures, 5% of users use 95% of the bandwidth. Thus, the costs of those users are being subsidised by the other 95%. People with 20 meg connections are likely to be using a lot more of that bandwidth than someone on 4 or 10 meg.