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Originally Posted by cook1984
It's a shame that all you can get is an expensive, barely even fast enough to be called broadband service then. Consider that we pay far more than the European average and that the US has recently decided to define the minimum speed required for a service to be called "broadband" as 5mb down and 1mb up, i.e. by their definition VM's XL service narrowband.
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Broadband is the big margin maker for Virgin Media.
That said note the other thread I produced which pointed out our services are more expensive than a number of peer services in Europe. Even Sweden famous for cheapy providings has not dissimilar charges and 3 out of 4 cable companies in the Netherlands are kinda expensive, though all 4 offer better upstream.
Likewise the US shows huge price swings, in some cases more expensive than here, in others far cheaper.
Companies charge what they think they can get away with and provide the lowest level of service they think they can get away with.
EDIT: Saying that in France you can get 100M and telephone for 20 euros a month over cable, which is nice, 30 euros at full price, and no screwing around with M / L / XL - pay your 30 euros a month you'll get 100M/5M if you're in the 80% of network that has it, and 30M until you get upgraded if you aren't.