100Mb/sec for £70pm !!
19-12-2003, 15:01
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100Mb/sec for £70pm !!
A SWEDISH SUPPLIER will introduce an amazing 100Mbit/sec broadband connection for 895 kroner in April next year. That's about £70 a month, and that speed is in both directions. Bredbandsbolaget will cap downloads to 300GB as part of the service it's offering.
Right now, Bredbandsbolaget is offering bi-directional 10MB connections for 330 kroner a month without limits on the download. That's round about the average price for 512/256 ADSL here in Blightyland. According to the UK ADSL Guide, your £70 will get you 2MB/256K ADSL from a few suppliers. Sheesh! Us Brits are kebabbed!
(From www.neowin.net)
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13266
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19-12-2003, 15:05
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Re: 100Mb/sec for £70pm !!
and the uk continues to fall behind in the broadband speed stakes maybe i should leave 
its good for them i wish i had that speed if it was £70 a month there would be no hesitation to sign up even with the cap
and before anyone says anything iknow they have FTTH and there network was subsidised by the government 
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19-12-2003, 15:06
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Re: 100Mb/sec for £70pm !!
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Originally Posted by Salu
A SWEDISH SUPPLIER will introduce an amazing 100Mbit/sec broadband connection for 895 kroner in April next year. That's about £70 a month, and that speed is in both directions. Bredbandsbolaget will cap downloads to 300GB as part of the service it's offering.
Right now, Bredbandsbolaget is offering bi-directional 10MB connections for 330 kroner a month without limits on the download. That's round about the average price for 512/256 ADSL here in Blightyland. According to the UK ADSL Guide, your £70 will get you 2MB/256K ADSL from a few suppliers. Sheesh! Us Brits are kebabbed!
(From www.neowin.net)
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13266 |
Tel us about it 
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19-12-2003, 15:07
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Re: 100Mb/sec for £70pm !!
There's no demand for 2MB a month though.....(NTL)
If they are worried about their network falling over of they launched a 2MB service. Then it must be inferior to Telewests....and they had better think about upgrading it soon....especailly in light of Sweden's offering..
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19-12-2003, 15:30
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Re: 100Mb/sec for £70pm !!
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Originally Posted by Salu
and they had better think about upgrading it soon....especailly in light of Sweden's offering..
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I don't think an ISP in Sweden is going to sway NTL's decision on wether to upgrade their network or not .. they're hardly competition.
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19-12-2003, 15:34
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Re: 100Mb/sec for £70pm !!
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Originally Posted by kronas
and the uk continues to fall behind in the broadband speed stakes maybe i should leave
its good for them i wish i had that speed if it was £70 a month there would be no hesitation to sign up even with the cap
and before anyone says anything iknow they have FTTH and there network was subsidised by the government |
I don't know what I would need a 100Mb connection for. I wouldn't mind a 1 Mb connection for 70p a month though 
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19-12-2003, 15:44
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Re: 100Mb/sec for £70pm !!
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Originally Posted by Salu
There's no demand for 2MB a month though.....(NTL)
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pushing the overworked/over subbed NTL Network aside
NTL are killing the joy of their customers downloading at 250kb/s and maybe NTL marketing have done their sums and found out that they cannot offer the service at £39.99 because the lower tiers will also have to come down in price.
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19-12-2003, 16:02
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Re: 100Mb/sec for £70pm !!
Market demand WILL push that down eventually...
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19-12-2003, 16:20
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Re: 100Mb/sec for £70pm !!
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Originally Posted by Salu
There's no demand for 2MB a month though.....(NTL)
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20-12-2003, 01:36
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Re: 100Mb/sec for £70pm !!
Not quite the same but Sunshine are building 54/24Mbit WiFi from £10 per month 
http://www.wrbb.net/
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20-12-2003, 01:50
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Re: 100Mb/sec for £70pm !!
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Not quite the same but Sunshine are building 54/24Mbit WiFi from £10 per month
http://www.wrbb.net/ |
yes that link has been posted before but isint that location dependant ?
even with the ADSL version ?
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20-12-2003, 02:07
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Re: 100Mb/sec for £70pm !!
Doesnt the lag on one of those wireless get real bad??
I know people say that about shortrange Wireless LANs aswel but I know that isnt true if your signal strength is good enough, im just curious because apparently they may be in my area Late 2004  I already have the hardware and I wouldnt mind the 54mbit (6.75Mbyte) Downstream.
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21-12-2003, 21:09
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Re: 100Mb/sec for £70pm !!
lol UK has long been a ripoff for anything internet check out things like hosting companies etc. traffic on average is 3x the price of rest of eu and usa.
Also bbb specs of service wont affect ntl at all, but they will eventually be forced to re think what they offering wether its sooner or later who knows?
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21-12-2003, 21:51
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Re: 100Mb/sec for £70pm !!
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
lol UK has long been a ripoff for anything internet check out things like hosting companies etc.
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I think that sentance should be shortened to...
'lol UK has long been a ripoff for anything'
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21-12-2003, 23:07
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Re: 100Mb/sec for £70pm !!
heh there is demand for 2mbit + as well im already on 2mbit :-)
one thing that is slightly un nerving is if you look at who the primary stake holder in BBB is, its none other than ntl (or at least it was the last time i looked :p)
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Just looking it appears that ntl are no longer listed on there site but i did find this.
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About Bredbandsbolaget
Covering 51 cities, Bredbandsbolaget is Sweden's largest supplier of true broadband, with 260 000 connected households and more than 90 000 subscribers, and still growing. Bredbandsbolaget's consumer offering Bredband Hemma was in both December 2001, August 2002 and May 2003 awarded Best Broadband Service in Sweden in a reader poll in the magazine InternetWorld. The company was founded in 1998 and have 160 employees. Largest shareholders are NTL, Investor, The Carlyle Group, Continuum Group and Access Industries. Further information is available on www.bredband.com
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From http://www.norman.com/press_release/2003_jun_10.shtml which is dated june this year
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