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Originally Posted by Earwig
How come other countries can have HUGE connections with HUGE caps or even Un-capped but us here in the U.K have slow-capped connections.
Also how come on the continent they are charged far less for connections that are twice as fast as ours??
I have friends in holland who pay LESS than I pay for 3Mbit and they are on 20Mbit ! !
Why are we in the U.K so easy to fob off with any old crap? It's about time we stood up for ourselves and stopped accepting second rate services for extortionate amounts of money.
I understand that they need to make money and be profitable but I just wish we would start to catch up with other countries. It seems as soon as we start to make some headway they take another stride taking them further still from us....
10Mbit all sounds good but is not much use at 75Gb a month to play with.
Rather than Capping this one so low and having Un-capped services at slow speeds they should just have a good High cap of say 3-400GB a month. That would give ample downloading for "most" people and would stop the "Market Traders" that people love to bang on about here in this forum, because let's face it "EVERYONE" that is a heavy downloader sells everything they download right??   |
I suppose that you will get people in other countries saying the same thing about us. "how come people in the UK get such fast connections so cheap?" They quote ADSL customers getting 8 Mb for £9.99 and cable customers getting 100 Mb for FREE. Of course there are very few customers in the UK getting a 8 Mb connection for £9.99 and most of these don't get anything near 8 Mb as they are too far from the exchange. The 100 Mb cable customers were a select few who lived in the right area (Dolphin Square). How universal are those low prices and fast speeds in other countries?
Not everyone outside of the UK gets super fast connections dirt cheap. A lot of the prices you see are introductory offers and only available in certain areas.
There are a lot of factors that dictate the prices paid for broadband.
Was the infrastructure subsidised or not. Some countries have subsidised broadband to the extent that ISP's don't have massive interest payments to make on the debt incurred in providing the infrastructure.
What is the topography of the area and what planning factors dictate where the infrastructure is sited. It can be far cheaper to sling cables between posts than to bury it under roads with massive disruption to traffic.
When was the infrastructure installed and what were the expectations at that time. Customers in parts of Leicester and London for example will know what having cable infrastructure installed with an incorrect assumption of future needs means. Upgrading these areas will be a very expensive and time consuming process.
10 Mb with a 75 Gb per month allowance is more than ample for over 95% of people in the UK and there are probably millions of people worldwide who wish they could have the same.