(UK) BT 1Mbps home for ST£23 plus VAT

chill

http://www.vnunet.com/News/1145260

"BT is to offer a new 1Mbps IPStream broadband wholesale product for £23 plus VAT per month, available from 20 November.

Priced at £10 per month more than BT's 512Kbps service, Home1000 is being offered for £5 per month less than BT's business-class 1Mbps offering, Office1000, and with a contention ratio of 50:1."

MrB

If you are in the South county business park at the moment and you listen very carefully, you might just be able to make the sound of my head hitting my desk repeatedly!
“why oh why don’t I live in a country will real broadband”

ando

was that the thunder, or your head?

LumoColor

/me gets home sick....

eth0_

Originally posted by chill
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1145260

"BT is to offer a new 1Mbps IPStream broadband wholesale product for £23 plus VAT per month, available from 20 November.

Priced at £10 per month more than BT's 512Kbps service, Home1000 is being offered for £5 per month less than BT's business-class 1Mbps offering, Office1000, and with a contention ratio of 50:1."

Wait, I think you're missing the fact that's the WHOLESALE price. ATM 1Mbps residential uncapped from a provider is roughly £33 per month.

MrB - Why don't you MOVE then :OP You only have to hop the border where there's pretty much 80% of the population in a bband enabled area

MrB

Wait, I think you're missing the fact that's the WHOLESALE price. ATM 1Mbps residential uncapped from a provider is roughly £33 per month.

No I understood this perfectly, I've stopped hitting my head now as it just hurts!

MrB - Why don't you MOVE then :OP You only have to hop the border where there's pretty much 80% of the population in a bband enabled area

I'd love to but moving country and leaving my well paid job just for BB seems a bit silly

ER

BT are providing the 1MB BB service with the limits set at max 3.5km from the exchange and 35db max noise level. Anything beyond this and your line doesn't qualify..........

All fun and games till someone is living >6km from the local exchange

X4

no to worry folks

you all will have some breads soon or later

bk

Originally posted by ER
BT are providing the 1MB BB service with the limits set at max 3.5km from the exchange and 35db max noise level. Anything beyond this and your line doesn't qualify..........

All fun and games till someone is living >6km from the local exchange

Well at least BT are trying, if you are greater then 3.5KM, then you can get their 500k RADSL service to operates up to 6km.

It is good to have a range of services available. In particular I like Tiscali's new 128k service in the UK, it is cheap and cheerful, but I know lots of people who would benefit from something like it here in Ireland.

CyberGhost

knife into the heart!

eth0_

Originally posted by bk
Well at least BT are trying, if you are greater then 3.5KM, then you can get their 500k RADSL service to operates up to 6km.

Yep. You can bet if something similar EVER happened here, we'd get the usual moaners protesting why can't they get 1Mb when they live 6km away from exchange, and should that happen, they'd be the FIRST to start bitching and moaning when their service was below par because of their distance! Pffttthh!

I live about 4km (guessing) from my local exchange in tiny village in Down and can get up to 2Mb.

ER

Tis the classic example of Beggars can't be choosers.

Rgds
ER

CyberGhost

tis another classic example - we suck!

muffen

If you're moving country because you want fast broadband, the UK is NOT the country to go to.

Here's the current offering in Sweden:

Company: BredBandsBolaget
URL: http://www.bredbandsbolaget.se/se/content.jsp?t=2&s=3&m=4
Speed: 10Mbit (bi-directional)
Cap: Uncapped
Coverage: All major cities
Price: 399SEK = about 45 euros a month

Company: BoStream
URL: http://www.bostream.com/page.php?xml=swe/pages/private/frontpage.xml&nomargin=1
Speed: upto 26MBit (bi-directional, depends on distance from exchange, min 8 MBit)
Cap: Uncapped
Coverage: All major cities + some more
Price: 398SEK = about 45 euros a month

Company: Telia (Eircom for Sweden)
URL: http://www.telia.se/pw/privat/frame.do?mainFrame=/privat.do
Speed: 2Mbit / 400Kbit
Cap: 10gig / month
Coverage: more than 80% of the country.
Price: 499SEK = just under 60 euros

There are a few more companies that offer BroadBand, but I didn't have the energy to look up their offerings.

SUnet (Swedish University Network) runs through the entire country, and it was just upgraded to 10GigaBit. You can read about it here (in english): http://proj.sunet.se/gs/GigaSunet-rapport.pdf
The government is going to hook up all areas that cannot get broadband through the phone to SUnet, so shortly, over 90% of the country will be able to get BroadBand (currently just over 80% of the country is covered).

... and here I am in Ireland, paying 204 / month for my uncapped 1MBit line from Eircom.