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InfiniteBiscuit · 11-01-2009, 13:37

As a 50mb customer, I would certainly give up download for upload. Or even pay extra for upload.

I bought the product for the upload and lack of STM (at present). Takes me half the time to upload my data now, which is nice, and the lack of STM means I can fire down a film or something quickly, any time of the day.

But if VM are to keep myself as a customer, they're going to have to buck up their ideas very soon, and offer a greater upload. Whether at a price or not. I'd pay.

Dundee has fiber on the way, expected next year; and with VM launching 50mb here before other places, that suggests they stand to lose a bit of money when the city goes fiber. Problem being, it's expected that 55,000 homes will have fiber available to them here, meaning the vast majority of the city will be able to sign up to what will most likely be one of the country's best. I'd happily take a 25/25 fiber connection in a second.

Can VM honestly afford to throw that sort of money away? Because although I've just started a new 12 month contract, it ends in January '10.
H2O will be just around the corner, and you've got to wonder if it'd be worth me staying with VM. Considering how much less of a service they will be offering (regardless of what they COULD offer).

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InfiniteBiscuit Inactive Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Dundee, Scotland. Age: 39 Services: Full house TV (two V6 boxes), VIVID 200, Talk Weekends. Posts: 96	Re: 50Mbit Service Upstream Discussion As a 50mb customer, I would certainly give up download for upload. Or even pay extra for upload. I bought the product for the upload and lack of STM (at present). Takes me half the time to upload my data now, which is nice, and the lack of STM means I can fire down a film or something quickly, any time of the day. But if VM are to keep myself as a customer, they're going to have to buck up their ideas very soon, and offer a greater upload. Whether at a price or not. I'd pay. Dundee has fiber on the way, expected next year; and with VM launching 50mb here before other places, that suggests they stand to lose a bit of money when the city goes fiber. Problem being, it's expected that 55,000 homes will have fiber available to them here, meaning the vast majority of the city will be able to sign up to what will most likely be one of the country's best. I'd happily take a 25/25 fiber connection in a second. Can VM honestly afford to throw that sort of money away? Because although I've just started a new 12 month contract, it ends in January '10. H2O will be just around the corner, and you've got to wonder if it'd be worth me staying with VM. Considering how much less of a service they will be offering (regardless of what they COULD offer).