I am extremely disappointed by the broadband services offered in the UK from providers like NTL and BT. In Italy I had a 10MBit line (20 x faster than standard BT Broadband) with a 24/7 unlimited bandwidth and national phone calls except to mobiles for �30 a month including VAT. In addition it came with a free modem and you could cancel the contract at any time with just two months notice instead of being obliged to keep the line for at least 12 months with the likes of BT.
Broadband services in the UK are slow, expensive and petty minded. I was even forced to buy an Alcatel modem here that cost �182 just because the standard modem supplied my BT doesn't support OS X which is ridiculous. None of BT's installation CD's work with OS X and yet this is the de facto operating system for Macs and OS 9 is no longer even being developed. Talk about true broadband and competitive prices in the UK is just talk. Ashley simonmartin 10/2/03 9:33 am > Below you will see that the guy is saying that the typical user uses > 1/20th of their allowance but 1% of users *still* manage to screw the > service for the rest. It seems to me that NTL's infrastructure isn't up > to much, massively under-resourced. > > We shouldn't stand for this sort of BS. 'Always on, 24/7' should mean > just that. If they can't stand the heat... =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
