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We don't know how good we have it.....

  • 11-08-2006 2:36pm
    #1
    Rob_T
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭


    Those poor french suckers, imagine being duped into paying €29.00 a month for 28mb Broadband, Free Phone Calls and 200 Digital (some HD) TV channels. We can only gloat and once again feel superior to our continental brethren http://adsl.free.fr/


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  • #2
    Hannibal_12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭Hannibal_12


    Rob_T wrote:
    Those poor french suckers, imagine being duped into paying €29.00 a month for 28mb Broadband, Free Phone Calls and 200 Digital (some HD) TV channels. We can only gloat and once again feel superior to our continental brethren http://adsl.free.fr/

    To be honest I've just given up comparing what we have in Ireland relative to other countries (that goes not just for broadband as well). I usually placate myself by saying well I dont really need 28mb anyway so....of course thats beside the point. At the very least it would now seem that 8 megs is becoming the new defacto standard but alas, here in the emerald isle our defactos are just a bit less :) including the utterly amazing, baffling and preposterous "timed broadband".


  • #3
    Rob_T
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭Rob_T


    Hannibal_12 wrote:
    To be honest I've just given up comparing what we have in Ireland relative to other countries (that goes not just for broadband as well). I usually placate myself by saying well I dont really need 28mb anyway so....of course thats beside the point. At the very least it would now seem that 8 megs is becoming the new defacto standard but alas, here in the emerald isle our defactos are just a bit less :) including the utterly amazing, baffling and preposterous "timed broadband".

    I know what you mean, I usually try to lets this stuff pass me by without too much comment, but I gotta say that this one just annoys me. I saw it on a TV program the other night on BBC2. They took some punters from the UK to visit this guy in Paris who showed them his set up. The punters were all gobsmacked by how they were being ripped off, if only they knew.


  • #4
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    and to think how late the French were as Internet adopters too, they were mainly Minitel users as late as 2000 or so.

    Its because we were such enthusiastic early adopters of th'oul HiNternet here in Ireland that we had to be held back as a matter of policy in case we lost the run of ourselves entirely. Otherwise we would be gibbering in front of our 100Mbits available within 24 hours of order in every boghole in Ireland coz we are a great country and sure we are.


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