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Originally Posted by jb66
Do you think they are missing a chunk of the market by not offering a slow broadband speed, someone with just an ipad doesnt need 100Meg or customers who only use the laptop to book a holiday
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There may even be other ways to take in that market. Remember for VM many of the costs are fixed and the rest are based on usage. Super cheap, slow tiers are no good for VM. Worst case scenario is people going onto slower, cheaper, unlimited tiers and downloading like loons.
Check out UPC Ireland. They have 1 tier on their website, 240Mb, but offer a capped version and an unlimited version. Ireland are the most similar market to our own but are somewhat further along with ultrafast. UPC have competition from the incumbent telco and the Vodafone/ESB joint venture FTTP network.
Ziggo (formerly UPC Netherlands) offer 120Mb and 200Mb.
UPC Romania - 200Mb and 500Mb.
Where competition and conditions merit it the UPC family do offer lower tiers.
Austria.
Switzerland.
Poland.
It does take away somewhat from the USP selling 'standard' broadband speed tiers, especially with FTTC from BT available to nearly every premises that is passed by Virgin Media. They aren't going to want to compete with £5-£10 a month ADSL.
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Originally Posted by Kushan
It would be nice if the general population started focussing on the other aspects of a good connection, upload speeds, latency, jitter and buffer bloat.
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If it's not affecting their usage why would they care though?
I don't care about buffer bloat and I'm hardly undemanding, though I'm not hammering my connection with tons of P2P / Usenet connections drowning everything else out as a general rule
