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Originally Posted by zantarous
Then they become uncompetitive. There is no point in pricing products beyond what people are prepared to pay, didn't they say at the investors meeting that they had about 50 000 customers for their 50MB? Also as a VIP customer I pay £86 plus £10 for the Asian collection, it is really hard at that stage to justify another £8 for a BB upgrade.
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I pay Sky 58.50/month.
I pay BT 17GBP/month.
I pay Virgin 39GBP/month.
With the exception of the reliability issues on Virgin I get what I pay for and am content. Virgin is being supplanted with an O2 premium 15GBP/month service.
There is nothing uncompetitive about the pricing it's just people in the UK seem to be under the illusion that broadband services should be super cheap due to Sky and O2 subsidising some of their services heavily, then complain when the quality isn't where they would wish it to be.
Prices aren't going to be going down in the market as a whole so the existing VM deals are likely to remain competitive with 100Mbit as a higher priced premium product.
The alternative is that it's rolled out on the cheap with a 3Mbit upstream - no thanks. I would have been happy with a big upstream increase on the 50M and the price staying the same.
I hope it's expensive and that no corners are cut as they were with 50. The pricing on the other products is fine.
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Originally Posted by Tony.
What we really NEED is for BT/Sky/Orange etc to start pushing the Faster upload speeds they seem to be acheiving. Then perhaps the PR Gurus @ Virgin will start looking at our upload speed  |
They have somewhat though not nearly hard enough and the Virgin PR gurus are looking at it, that's why it's been in 'trials' for 6 months it's being looked at. Sadly not nearly enough is being done.