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Originally Posted by thenry
and to add because the other fibre product on offer from BT and Sky is of much better qaulity. qaulity you'd expect from VM having watched the fastest man on earth promote the service. not only that but the initial ETAs set back for some.
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Please understand. th, I'm not defending CW and his annoying deflection from VM. It doesn't matter in this thread that we take most other advertising material with a pinch of salt - so his point was pointless - as usual.
But I can't agree with you entirely on BT/Sky fibre product offer being better than VM's.
As you know, I have both VM and Infinity. When I was on 40/10 I got 38/8. When they doubled the frequency, I'm lucky to get 55/10. So the copper run is still a gotcha for distances of 300m or more. hen I got upgraded earlier this month from 50 meg to 100 meg, I got/get the 100 meg. The architecture sees to that.
There is an argument (that I've used before too) that BT's fibre is new and adequately capacious. Now that VM are renewing fibre in their upgrade programme, this BT advantage falls away.
I do agree with you that VM can be fairly criticised for a shameful marketing trick of offering to double speeds on a faster timetable than they actually knoew would be possible, simply to counter BT's speed doubling on Infinity. That was cynical, misleading unworthy.