No-one have anything to say or are people just paranoid of being moderated?
I'll restart the thread in that case as we were talking costs. There's nothing specific about Virgin Media or British people it's about consumers not being 'educated' to the benefits of their phatband and the larger operators going for the lowest common denominator of keeping service as cheap as possible rather than having quality as any kind of realistic concern.
While Virgin have released 50Mbit they have done it massively on the cheap. BT's investment is small and inoffensive.
It's not helped by a totally ignorant mass-media. I have already written to the Beeb about the following article as it's inaccurate and done in the style of a Sun correspondent or Hello magazine talking about a celebrity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/8014323.stm
EDIT: The main comedy apart from that the BBC don't know their bytes from bits is the video at the bottom. Bear in mind that this network is Fibre To The Cabinet and 25Mbit.
The text of my message to the BBC follows:
Quote:
Hi,
In the start of the story the network is 25 Megabit not Megabyte. Second the video underneath is total nonsense. The network is not the best and fastest. This network is only fibre to the cabinet. Fibre to the home networks 40 times faster are deployed or deploying all over the world, from Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea right through to France, Sweden and The Netherlands.
Rest assured this isn't going to be a model to a number of other countries - they're already years ahead, some with municipal all fibre systems.
With that in mind the video underneath the text is largely inaccurate, it grossly sensationalises this investment.
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