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Originally Posted by Chad

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...nd-prices.html

"Cable operator Virgin Media has risked a regulatory backlash by urging rivals to raise their broadband prices, arguing that consumers and businesses should pay more to fund investment in Britain’s internet infrastructure."

Dana Strong said: ": “I find it completely paradoxical and ironic that this is the sector where we’re promoting and advertising the notion of free broadband access. It’s creating an impression in our consumers’ minds, in businesses and government that broadband should be free."

"Virgin Media’s call for broadband prices to increase risks provoking the regulator, Ofcom, which touts the intense rivalry in the broadband market and reduction in prices in recent years as one its major successes. According to Ofcom figures, the average price of a broadband package was cut by nearly half between 2004 and 2012, partly as a result of regulatory intervention such as forcing BT to allow rivals to control its lines into homes and businesses."

Broadband in the future no doubt will become free but it wont be in our life time and if Putin has his way and WWIII erupts it would be in who ever is left alive lifetime either.