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    News - BT slams Virgin's 'high price' broadband service

    Rival bemoans Virgin Media's £45 100Mbps service price tag.
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    Re: News - BT slams Virgin's 'high price' broadband service

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    Re: News - BT slams Virgin's 'high price' broadband service

    I seem to recall BT asking for £50/m for 512kbps back in the day.

    I'd pay £45/m for 100mbps in a blink of an eye.
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    Re: News - BT slams Virgin's 'high price' broadband service

    Get out of the dark ages BT, you look like a spoilt child to me.



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    Re: News - BT slams Virgin's 'high price' broadband service

    Yes BT, it maybe twice the price but it is nearly 3x the speed 'infinity' is currently offering.

    I suggest BT goes and picks up their toys they've thrown out of the pram and starts acting like a bunch of grown-ups and pull their fingers out to improve the broadband speed for everyone as opposed to acting like a spolit brat over another companies offerings.

    Oh and BT didn't complain when I was paying £45 a month for their 512 Kb "openwound" service did they. What a short memory they have got

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    Re: News - BT slams Virgin's 'high price' broadband service

    BT: Virgin, your 100Mbps broadband is stupidly expensive.
    Virgin: OK, we'll make it cheaper then, thanks for the advice.
    BT: You're welcome.... crap.

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    Re: News - BT slams Virgin's 'high price' broadband service

    "The point we are making is that Virgin seems to be charging an awful lot for 100Mbps when 40Mb or 50Mb offers enough speed to run several services simultaneously, which is supposedly the main benefit of 100Mbps."
    20Mbit or even 8Mbit is plenty for many. Don't get me wrong, faster is better, but we are already at a stage where it is fast enough (for those with access to such speed) that we concern more about value (i.e. Mbps/£).

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    Re: News - BT slams Virgin's 'high price' broadband service

    Hardly matters, they are both covered with Traffic shaping and hard caps with fair usage policies. So I cant be bothered with either until that changes. 100mbps with a 200GB cap. Wouldnt take long to be honest.
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    Re: News - BT slams Virgin's 'high price' broadband service

    Its all about the upload speeds, I'm on 50Mbps and personally don't care about getting my stuff downloaded twice as fast... Its pretty fast having 5-6MB/s down the pipe anyway.

    What I DO care about is being able to send my stuff almost 7 times as fast.

    I will pay for that all day long.

    Bring on 10Mbps upload speeds!

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    Hardly matters, they are both covered with Traffic shaping and hard caps with fair usage policies. So I cant be bothered with either until that changes. 100mbps with a 200GB cap. Wouldnt take long to be honest.
    There is no cap on VM 50Mbps service and it won't be on 100...

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    Re: News - BT slams Virgin's 'high price' broadband service

    Lol at BT, its funny how they say family's are tight on budgets but really how can they use that as an argument? You dont HAVE to get the 100mb service, 10/20 and 50mb are perfectly acceptable and its not like VM are dropping them.

    Its cheaper in price vs performance than BT's and it doesnt actually have a cap so all day downloading = awesome!.
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    Re: News - BT slams Virgin's 'high price' broadband service

    Don't Virgin already do a 50Mb service for £38? So Virgin already have a service that's 10Mbps faster and 48p a month cheaper, maybe BT should look into that before moaning about the 100Mbps service.

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    Re: News - BT slams Virgin's 'high price' broadband service

    what's the point of 100Mb broadband if you get traffic managed after 7pm

    virgin media's advertising has always been better than its product

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    Re: News - BT slams Virgin's 'high price' broadband service

    As far as I'm concerned, if there is traffic shaping and caps then its pointless. Isp's have been saying for years that heavy downloaders etc cripple their network. So if they couldnt support it when people had a top speed of 2MB then they cant when people have 100mb!

    And in my view, its this they need to look at. I look forward to a day when people can get unlimited speeds and caps with no shaping!
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    Re: News - BT slams Virgin's 'high price' broadband service

    I think BT just want to be mentioned in the same article that Virgins new faster broadband is for publicity and marketing. I doubt much of what is said holds any value or meaning from whoever it was.

    That being said I have no problems with caps on a broadband line, the infrastructure is so bad in this country that caps are almost mandatory so that people can get acceptable services. Fair usage policies on the other hand are pathetic, poor excuse for slowing peoples internet at a whim.

    My new connection will be with either Fast.co.uk or aquiss.net because they have a great service with peak caps and zero fair usage policies. More than likely Fast.co.uk because they offer FTTC which I can get next year May(hopefully).

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    I got a letter today saying we could go with infinity, i checked it out and immediately threw the letter in the bin. Cant be doing with rubbish fair use policies.
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    Re: News - BT slams Virgin's 'high price' broadband service

    +1 for BE

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    Yes BT, it maybe twice the price but it is nearly 3x the speed 'infinity' is currently offering.

    I suggest BT goes and picks up their toys they've thrown out of the pram and starts acting like a bunch of grown-ups and pull their fingers out to improve the broadband speed for everyone as opposed to acting like a spolit brat over another companies offerings.

    Oh and BT didn't complain when I was paying £45 a month for their 512 Kb "openwound" service did they. What a short memory they have got
    I remember when I was paying £67 a month for 512Kbs line plus line rental back in the start of ADSL

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