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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan
Well I'm afraid that most big companies, and some small ones tell lies. They also get away with it because the advert has normally run it's course before any action can be taken. This is known as marketing, and in the bed industry I actively campaign against all the hype, gimmicks, and lies that are used.
By the way, BT also lie. And that comes from a friend of mine who is a BT engineer. He also said that it will be a long time before BT matches VM for speed. But I don't know about the technical side, so I can't comment.
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Maybe you should follow the 15-month saga that is the upstream uplifts. Other companies lie, very few have shown the level of utter incompetence that VM has when it comes to fixing their network in these parts.
Also I'd disagree on BT not catching up. BT already offer 110mbps service, which is more than VM does anywhere. BT will be offering 330mbps this year, which is again, already ahead of VM, and 1gbit next year, which will be even further again. Granted, these are only in limited areas.
BT currently offer 40mbit down and 10mbit up to all FTTC areas, this is faster than all of the nationally available VM packages in every way, except headline download speed. BT will be uplifting this to 80mbit down and 20mbit up across their network within months, VM don't even have more than 1.5mbps upload across their network yet.
The few areas VM have neglected to upgrade will see 50% faster download and more than ten times faster upload on BT. Nationwide, once all areas are upgraded we're still looking at BT Infinity only being 30% slower on the download and faster in all other respects than VM's best service.
Again, BT 40mb is already faster than VM 50mb for everything other than downloading large files (and if you're doing it via newsgroups BT will probably still be faster).