Because BT has vast areas where they are the only ISP available esp. rural areas.
Sky subsidise their broadband heavily to get people to buy their tv service.
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Originally Posted by New to cable
Virginmedia subsides its broadband massively as well, 50Mb has a "official" list price of £45 but its subsidised for phone and TV customers to as low as £25.
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http://shop.virginmedia.com/broadband/up-to-50mb.html
£35 a month as an entirely stand alone product with no subsidisation.
Not 45.
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Originally Posted by love tor
VIRGINMEDIA is a HFC netork, Hybrid,Fibre,Coaxal copper....
So its copper to your home, sometime the length of VM copper is long than someone living near there BT exchange.
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Rarely. They tend to have the street cabs laid out so people are no longer then 150 meters away from a cab. And when thats the case they lay even thicker cables to the persons house (such as my case) even the standard RJ6 cables that they lay are multiple times thicker and better shielded then a phone line.