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Originally Posted by 0 morgan 0
There are others services in the UK but not in Wales that offer much more competitive prices than NTL. The service were getting is the shoody uk service we'd expect from our broadband network , dont give me any bull**** about it should be costing us £300 stop having a laugh.
The problem is the only people arguing against are the people that do jack **** on the internet except probably come on this forum. It's people like you who are stupid enough to pay £35 a month for a speed of which they'll never get any use. So you download this forum 0.5 seconds faster... the only real winners here are the people so called "abusing" the service who are actually just using broadband for its intended use and you know it...  |
woah....! Lose the attitude!!
What about people who download from itunes? If i download a song then i would much prefer it to take 30seconds rather than 3 minutes... or an hour and a half on dial up.
I don't use all of the speed all of the time, but it is nice to have it there sometimes.
Going back to ians car analogy- i might buy a car which can do 0-60 in 6 seconds, doesn't mean that i am going to that every time i accelerate, but if i am late, it might come in handy once in a while. This car would cost me alot more than a model that takes 20 seconds to do 0-60 but if i am willing to pay extra, then that is my choice.
The "uk broadband network" you refer to is a privately owned cable network- ntl paid for it and pay to maintain it. The ADSL network has been funded partially by public money, so yes you could moan about lack of development on this, but ntl's private network is not as relevant to the discussion of poor broadband in the UK as ADSL is. As a private entity ntl can invest what they like in the network and in return they will gain subscribers- which incidentally they seem to be doing quite well, with 1.3m customers- more than any other ISP in the UK.
And as for their being no other competitive ISPs in Wales... i can have 2meg from any ADSL provider so i don't think that your comment is quite justified- it may be the case that in some areas ADSL is not available, but you need to be more specific with your comments.