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BT talks up its high speed broadband
BRITISH TELECOM has announced that it will deliver its new high speed Internet services to customers in forty per cent of the country by 2012, just in time for the Olympic Games.
Today in a statement it said that it was in the process of burying £1.5 billion worth of fibre cable in the vicinity of some 10 million homes, and that it plans to reach 40 per cent of the UK population before 2012. This means that unless the end of the world gets here first, nearly half of us will be able to watch Usain Bolt run even faster, or something.
The firm also announced that it had signed up its five millionth customer. So, presumably it will be working very hard to get another 5 million to sign up in the next two years, though we're not clear on how it thinks that's going to reach 40 per cent of the country's population, considering that the UK has nearly 50 million Internet users.
BT said that fish-and-chips shop worker Elizabeth Patterson, 42, of East Kilbride, Glasgow, was its lucky 5 millionth user, and as a result she will be forced to travel to Vancouver to watch the Winter Olympics. Patterson signed up on the 9th of December, so we can only assume it's taken BT this long to get her actually connected.
John Petter, managing director of BT's Consumer division, said, "We are thrilled to have passed the 5 million mark and it's now full speed ahead for 6 million. Broadband has the ability to transform people's lives and the fact that we are still showing strong take-up when there are more than 14 million ADSL broadband customers in the UK is testament to the unique benefits of being connected."
He may have added, "and put a pickled egg and a can of Tizer in there too please", but we can't be sure. µ
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http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ - there is a list of UK providers, prices etc.
You can see speedtest results and so on.
If you really want to hurt BT then move to another provider so BT don't get your cash no more!
"Mr Hanky the Christmas Pooh,
Small and brown, he comes from you."
Yeah, and this is why the rest of their users have to be connected on a conditional basis like throttling p2p and torrent as well as some other traffic like youtube.
These dickheads are signing up more and more people and pocketing the cash for their shareholders while still trying to squeeze what they can out of the old sh*t they places back in ancient times.
Even if you connect 7000M you still never actually reach anywhere near that limit ever, even during the night when they turn the traffic/tap on p2p/torrent up. But no matter, as they are taking the piss, i too will continue to take the piss equally, until either more people decide to leave them or BT pull that thumb out and start investing in the system that is keeping them alive because mobile phone is giving them a good kicking on their balls!
What do i do?! Well they usually turn the taps to the torrent/p2p/FTP at around midday (weekdays) and 9AM (weekends) at those times i just use that brilliant program called neo downloader and input a random site with lots of demo program etc. and neodownloader rinses the entire site demos, later i just delete all the data, this is only to give them and their system/networks a burnout! after all i'm paying to the entitlement of my share of the promised bandwidth of 8meg, what i do with it should be my choice.
Waste of my electricity and system ware and tear like HDD spindle etc. and a good contribution to global warming, i know, but there's just no other choice. They need to be taught a lesson and i'm not having any of it! If they want to throttle Neodownloader, they'll have to throttle everyone equally because that is using HTTP.... ha, ha, ha...
I've seen/heard their pathetic and ridiculous adverts to try and get people to use their home phone. I'd like to say to BT 'S.M.D' (suck, my, ????).
it's a joke, as most inQ readers can remember of the 30k "Piracy is bad hurrr" letters sent out, approximately 20k were to BT customers. BT, enemy of your freedom!!
Great. Going on six million people with 'lightening fast' HTTP transfer speeds. Shame that encompasses a mere fraction of what comprises the Internet as a service.
If an ISP pretty much limits all non-HTTP traffic to borderline dialup speeds, then they are NOT providing an Internet service. I demand they reclassify themselves NRISPs. Let it be known that BT are now a Not-Really-Internet-Service-Provider.
All this fibre, but will they actually replace all the cables (ie from the telegraph pole to your home), i for one suffer from a very poor degraded cable that BT flately refuse to replace which causes drops outs and degrading in speed (at the box, the engineer gave me 6mb but between the box and my home the cable lost 5mb) and new fibre to box isnt going to address this issue
Won't get far asking for Tizer in a Scottish chippie - he actually requested a battered haggis supper with a tin of Bru...Pal
Looks like numbers is all BT cares about. Customer satisfaction has been the least of their worries for a few years now.
http://www.broadband-notspot.org.uk/coverage-map.html#13,51.50297266764028,-0.016307830810546875,all,2
I had no idea BT had 10 million mid- to high-ranking employees.
So that will be London, Birmingham and Manchester covered. But what about the rest of the country?
Virgin Media has a head start of 20 years over BT and still hasn't covered the whole country.
I live in the west side of a large town and BT internet is currently offered at 1Mb. How does BT plan to catch up in 2 years?