So I will bet BT broadband for £6 a month?

Will I ****..

Can anyone tell me what effect that piece of BT
propaganda will have on real broadband prices.

Basically what will be the minimum I can get a proper
bog-standard broadband connection, for and how much
of a discount that will be on the current prices.

All how much lower is that percentage than the 70%
trumpeted by BT?

"half_pint" wrote in message:

So I will bet BT broadband for £6 a month?

It's has NOT cut the price of broadband by 70%. It has cut the connection
costs which are passed on to other suppliers. A lot of broadband suppliers
like Plusnet charge £58.75 to connect which is the price BT charge them. I
believe it is this price that is set to drop and not the overall price of
broadband. Although with prices now at £14.99 for full speed broadband I
think the prices are not too bad when you consider AOL still charge £15.99
for bog standard dial-up.

Gareth :-) voom wrote:
It's has NOT cut the price of broadband by 70%. It has cut the connection
costs which are passed on to other suppliers. A lot of broadband suppliers
like Plusnet charge £58.75 to connect which is the price BT charge them. I
believe it is this price that is set to drop and not the overall price of
broadband. Although with prices now at £14.99 for full speed broadband I
think the prices are not too bad when you consider AOL still charge £15.99
for bog standard dial-up.

No. They charge £15.99 for a dial-up AOL account. This includes exclusive
content and no restrictions, remember? Not to mention user-friendly
firewall and virus scanning and parental controls..

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On Fri, 14 May 2004 18:09:07 UTC, nsj wrote:

No. They charge £15.99 for a dial-up AOL account. This includes exclusive
content and no restrictions, remember? Not to mention user-friendly
firewall and virus scanning and parental controls..

I hope you were being ironic.

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On Fri, 14 May 2004 18:30:30 +0100, "half_pint"
wrote:

Will I ****..

You really need to read the report he-
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/13/bt_ofcom_llu/

Pay attention to paragraph two - that's the second block of text which
starts "Today BT...."

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"Gareth :-) voom" wrote in message
...
It's has NOT cut the price of broadband by 70%. It has cut the connection
costs which are passed on to other suppliers. A lot of broadband suppliers
like Plusnet charge £58.75 to connect which is the price BT charge them. I
believe it is this price that is set to drop and not the overall price of
broadband.

The £50 + VAT connection charge has not changed for ISPs either.

BT made several different announcements yesterday... these include:

1) ISP's using Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) will see overall price cuts of
"up to 70%" by the end of the year.

LLU is relatively rare atm - the 3 largest ISP's that this affects are
Bulldog in 35 exchanges, Homehoice in about 80 exchanges and Easynet in 135
exchanges.

Also, more ISP's may be tempted to go down the LLU route or expand their
current coverage - HomeChoice already have plans to double their LLU network
in London.

2) The margin between IPStream and DataStream prices is increasing my a
£1/month - meaning more ISP's will probably be using DataStream in future
and one or two of the existing ones may be cutting prices.

3) There were other announcements that may lead to cheaper IPStream products

There may also be cheaper voice calls from competitors in future but thats
OT for this group.

Regards
Sunil

Bob Eager wrote:

On Fri, 14 May 2004 18:09:07 UTC, nsj wrote:


No. They charge £15.99 for a dial-up AOL account. This includes exclusive
content and no restrictions, remember? Not to mention user-friendly
firewall and virus scanning and parental controls..

I hope you were being ironic.

Why?

Oh, hang on. Your signature explained your mindset.

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On Fri, 14 May 2004 23:05:53 UTC, nsj wrote:

Bob Eager wrote:

On Fri, 14 May 2004 18:09:07 UTC, nsj wrote:


No. They charge £15.99 for a dial-up AOL account. This includes exclusive
content and no restrictions, remember? Not to mention user-friendly
firewall and virus scanning and parental controls..

I hope you were being ironic.

Why?

Oh dear. You weren't. Never mind.

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begin a new life...dump Windows!