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Originally Posted by virginruinedntl
I can see there being an awful lot of users who will be sticking to 20mb, i doubt that many people will be prepared to pay the £30 charge. Lets hope within a few months the charge is dropped then everyone will be on 30mb and they'd have some nice bragging rights compared to the competition with the exception of BT Infinity which averages at 37mb in real world tests.
If they upgraded 10mb users to 12mb and gave them docsis3 modems they could do away with docsis1 completely which i would assume save virgin alot of money?
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100mbit is the bragging rights.
making this a free upgrade would be an aweful idea. More capacity constraints. I am hoping this £30 detterent stays in place.
Unless converting docsis1 equipment to doscis3 is cheap then latter is also a bad idea, they would be abandoning equipment that has cost money to deploy and then needing to do further upgrades to docsis3 for the user influx, in typical VM style those upgrades would probably also be inadequate.
Personally I think a one off £30 fee that gives you new equipment and a 50% speed boost is great value (assuming you get the performance in your area). You talk as if £30 is a huge amount of money, people spend more than that on food very week, and many spend more then that on booze and fags.
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Not really. This year BT is rolling out 40mb, VM already has 50mb across its whole network. Next year BT will still only have 40mb, VM will be deploying 100mb across its whole network.
As you say, BT is being held back by the copper network, which, even with FTTC will not go very far in excess of 60-80mbps tops or so I've been told. Even if BT allowed 80mbps FTTC, VM already have this beat, at 100mbps, and can go much further whereas BT can only go further with FTTP which isn't going to come close to cable's availability anytime soon.
Bragging rights remain with VM.
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Also that VM's coverage is higher than announced BT FTTx coverage, BT appear to be wasting lots of cash on pleasing villagers as a significant amount of their funds are been used to enable those types of areas. Result is many VM areas will not have FTTC competition.