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Originally Posted by Paul M
I would like a bigger upload speed, and would pay a [reasonably] higher price for it.
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Yeah I remember you saying as much before ; you were basically the person I was thinking about. But yes, not worth the offset of living in like a social housing complex.
The only other company I know that offers similar in the UK is Gigaclear but as I understand it, their requirements are pretty much the same:
https://www.gigaclear.com/postcode-checker/
(I doubt that you area would be accepting orders, but you never know). As I understand it, enough folks in once place need to show interest, and if they do then one of the two companies will send someone out to install and if they pick up like 10 to 13 customers per install they generally break even on the costs of install. (For that place).
Gigaclears plans are more expensive than Hyperoptic, though:
https://www.gigaclear.com/our-broadb...ucts/for-home/
I wouldn't say some of the latter prices like Home ULTRA are cost effective ; 76 a month even with the vat back is a lot and all the installation costs are a lot to soak up.
Soon enough (in the next year or two to come) some of those companies may start expanding into residential but other than that mot will wait for the cap of 20 or 50 for up to be broken and rely on the rollout of 5G to take care of mobile.
It looks like a tiresome 6 to 18 months in the mean time, though.
Curt was thinking that you might need a lot more for up (like a gig up) so I figured that Giga would be better as they generally are more spread out in the big cities than Hyperoptic, and don't seem to have quite a North / South divide. Their customer service seems reasonable, too. The cost does seem pretty high though, even if you are eligible.
Hope that helps.