TL:Dr roaming internet data is both faster and more expedient. Idk why this isn’t the headline rather than the “big number” nonsense.
My friend was stuck with 8Mb broadband for ages and was quoted £15k to get fibre to his property (rural N. Ireland), or wait of 9 years.
He went with Starlink, £90 a month for 200-500Mb/s.
It’s a total farce and could have been solved eons ago.
Where I live they had a company come in and do it all. Every street, every part. It must have cost a fortune but it’s done now.
Now we get the fun bit that no one is talking about. Because they did it all, our options for joining the network are limited to 3 companies, the biggest being talktalk. No virgin, sky or BT for us.
Fibre is pretty much obsolete anyway. As soon as 5G hits your area you are better off getting 5g to the home or Starlink than worry about getting FTTP.
Worse aparently he has the right to £3K of everyone else’s cash to subsidise that.
2mbps isn’t that slow though. Would still work for most stuff if using Adblock to cut the majority of traffic websites generate
2megabits sounds normal for bt’s national coverage not just the peak district.
Also for a company which “guarantees” speeds of whatever as a customer not getting those it is or at fucking least should be the company that fucking pays.
Although as a virgin customer i can’t say shit because i might have the national 22 but i’m supposed to be getting no less than 100 “guaranteed” as “promised” yeah bullshit. Last year i downgraded my package because £70 every month when i just need wifi was too much so now i’m paying £60 than it goes up to £80.
I wish i could just live on an island tapped into the numerous underwater cables and pay for what i use from who i use it from and not stupid service charges that i’m not given or paper bill charge and the countless other stupid charges.
Reminder that BT were rolling out fibre to the whole of the UK in the early 90s before Thatcher had her way with it
My mate has CityFibre to his flat and not only are they aggressive on pricing they give out £200 in amazon vouchers for referrals (£100 for each party).
That’s a lot of money to fit fibre and get a customer.
Why can’t they just spend that money on fitting the fibre to more people?
Complete joke. Even areas in Birmingham still don’t have fibre broadband.
That’s before we even consider rural areas.
Surely at this day in age it’s becoming a necessity, can’t do much without it anymore.
The UK can be pretty terrible for Internet (and phone signals in general). My grandmother’s Internet has recently gone super slow (it used to be great), and now for some unknown reason it is sometimes 20kbps. Resetting the router gets it to maybe 6-8mbps. At some points I couldn’t even load a google search page…
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TL:Dr roaming internet data is both faster and more expedient. Idk why this isn’t the headline rather than the “big number” nonsense.
My friend was stuck with 8Mb broadband for ages and was quoted £15k to get fibre to his property (rural N. Ireland), or wait of 9 years.
He went with Starlink, £90 a month for 200-500Mb/s.
It’s a total farce and could have been solved eons ago.
Where I live they had a company come in and do it all. Every street, every part. It must have cost a fortune but it’s done now.
Now we get the fun bit that no one is talking about. Because they did it all, our options for joining the network are limited to 3 companies, the biggest being talktalk. No virgin, sky or BT for us.
Fibre is pretty much obsolete anyway. As soon as 5G hits your area you are better off getting 5g to the home or Starlink than worry about getting FTTP.
Worse aparently he has the right to £3K of everyone else’s cash to subsidise that.
2mbps isn’t that slow though. Would still work for most stuff if using Adblock to cut the majority of traffic websites generate
2megabits sounds normal for bt’s national coverage not just the peak district.
Also for a company which “guarantees” speeds of whatever as a customer not getting those it is or at fucking least should be the company that fucking pays.
Although as a virgin customer i can’t say shit because i might have the national 22 but i’m supposed to be getting no less than 100 “guaranteed” as “promised” yeah bullshit. Last year i downgraded my package because £70 every month when i just need wifi was too much so now i’m paying £60 than it goes up to £80.
I wish i could just live on an island tapped into the numerous underwater cables and pay for what i use from who i use it from and not stupid service charges that i’m not given or paper bill charge and the countless other stupid charges.
Reminder that BT were rolling out fibre to the whole of the UK in the early 90s before Thatcher had her way with it
https://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost-the-broadband-race-in-1990-1224784
My mate has CityFibre to his flat and not only are they aggressive on pricing they give out £200 in amazon vouchers for referrals (£100 for each party).
That’s a lot of money to fit fibre and get a customer.
Why can’t they just spend that money on fitting the fibre to more people?
Complete joke. Even areas in Birmingham still don’t have fibre broadband.
That’s before we even consider rural areas.
Surely at this day in age it’s becoming a necessity, can’t do much without it anymore.
The UK can be pretty terrible for Internet (and phone signals in general). My grandmother’s Internet has recently gone super slow (it used to be great), and now for some unknown reason it is sometimes 20kbps. Resetting the router gets it to maybe 6-8mbps. At some points I couldn’t even load a google search page…
But if you wanna cancel you have to pay up