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Originally Posted by muppetman11
Who is arguing VM BB is the best I was merely stating 40mb is ample for probably 75 % of people. If VM channel lineup is enough for most how come Sky have over 10 million subscribers.
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2 big problems with this are..............
Firstly BT FTTC is only going to 66% of the country by 2015 and those areas are mostly covered by Virgin anyway
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http://www.broadbandwatcher.co.uk/bt...ncomplete-713/
Stuart Watson, Broadband Product Manager at UK ISP Zen Internet, said:
“BT Openreach describes an exchange as in progress if there are ten cabinets live, but there could be 70 or 80 or more cabinets in that area – customers are seeing when their exchange is enabled but not when their cabinet is going to be, or even if it’s going to be upgraded, because only about 40% or 50% of cabinets in a given area are scheduled or are likely to be upgraded.
“BT needs to make it clearer what an enabled exchange means, make clear that a rollout can take place over three, four or five months and make clear that just because an exchange is enabled the actually coverage in that area could be 40% or 50%.”
BT said that it knew that a significant amount of areas has been left out, however, the ISP said: “on average the figure is around 85% of an exchange area – this may be higher or much lower depending on the infrastructure and the market”.
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Secondly Sky will not be able to undercut BT etc as unlike LLU its not subsidized and they will have to either take a loss on it or the price will be comparable to Virgin (Virgin 50 Meg £25 a month + £12.99 phone or £35 a month standalone) (BT Infinity 40 Meg unlimited (300 gig a month limit then 2 meg speed for a month in the evenings) £25.60 a month + £10 phone)
This will mean that Virgin have the advantage for VOD etc where its available.....