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Originally Posted by Stuart C
However, the 10 meg upgrade is being launched nationally. Any unbundled ADSL ISP will only launch in the most profitable areas, and may or may not launch in other areas. For instance, I can get 2 meg from most ISPs, or 4 meg from Homechoice on my BT line. This is despite me living about 300 meters away from the exchange. I cannot get any planned dates for further upgrades from any ISP..
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almost, NTL have chosen not to broadband up some of their areas they consider not financially viable.
End of the day there is good and bad things about each situation.
ukonline will probably initially only have 24mbit in london and then eventually rollout to all of its llu exchanges, 24mbit will probably only be possible when you are under 2km to the exchange and using the right server's to download off, it is much more a PR thing then anything else.
Likewise on NTL they are promoting their 10mbit to get their sales, but in the meantime they are pushing up their contention ratios and their external pipes get congested also making 10mbit a hard target to reach, the advantage with ntl of course distance is much less a factor, just providing you get lucky on the postcode lottery and have a good ubr and you dont use usa sites you have a good chance of using your full 10mbit. The uncapped service will probably be lower speeds anyway so the only users on the 10mbit will be low to medium users making it much more less likely it will be pushed.