Cant comment on Aquiss but I dont consider Zen same tier as AAISP.

To you it may not be a thing you are bothered about which is fine, its why having a competitive retail market is good as we can all make our own choices.

uh-ha

Compared to what I pay - SLA or not. A 1.8 down 220 up service would suit me anything up to about £100 a month. I'd happily sign up.

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I have never understood why people pay top dollar for AAISP, they can't even manager to swallow the install charges like most other niche providers do.

12 month contracts get 0 fees - but 6 and 1 month do not and rightly so.

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uh-ha

Compared to what I pay - SLA or not. A 1.8 down 220 up service would suit me anything up to about £100 a month. I'd happily sign up.

I don't need 1800/220 service not for home. 160/30 or 330/50 will be fine for my need when FTTP come.

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12 month contracts get 0 fees - but 6 and 1 month do not and rightly so.

Are you talking about something different to me? the AAISP website says minimum 12 month contract for FTTP and also says £100 setup fee for a new FTTP service

**** AAISP FTTP Prices ****

Yes sorry I am - I was referring to the current FTx offerings. I've not seen the FTTP deals on AAISP as I can't get it anyway - apologies

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In reply to a post by VMDIAPunter:

uh-ha

Compared to what I pay - SLA or not. A 1.8 down 220 up service would suit me anything up to about £100 a month. I'd happily sign up.

I don't need 1800/220 service not for home. 160/30 or 330/50 will be fine for my need when FTTP come.

Fair enough - But that's you. I'd be going down from 1000 up to 220 but it's still going to be fast enough and for the drop is price it's worth it.

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I have never understood why people pay top dollar for AAISP, they can't even manager to swallow the install charges like most other niche providers do. I have always stayed with the massive market providers on FTTP and fingers crossed never had an issue but its probably one of those things that gives some people comfort which then justifies the cost.

May be the same logic is used when choosing between Aldi/Lidl and Waitrose, its all food at the end of the day but some feel the food is better because they have paid more for it although if you scan some of the Aldi/Lidl food barcodes with a mobile phone app they come back with Waitrose as the brand as they are the identical product.

Each to their own.

It is a different market, a lot of people who use A&A need the net for work or business and as you said they think the cost is worth it for better customer service if things do go belly up.
I realise that broadband is now more reliable than ever before, but things can and do go wrong, certainly with hardware and A&A may be better at sorting these things out.

I did think of them once, but the lack of unlimited put me off and I have recommended them to some people, but again the lack of unlimited and maybe the higher price.

i have normally gone for larger providers, a couple of times sin the ADSL days I have gone for the smaller ones, like Metronet and I went for a local Wireless network until they could not cope and by then FTTC was here, so I went with plusnet and stayed with them until changing to ZZoomm last year. Stayed with Plusnet for over 9 years.
Zzoomm is pretty small compared to some of the others, while I was a bit unsure when i first change, i think I made the right choice.

Sometimes you are lucky, sometimes you are not.

1 month for cityfibre FTTP, also 1 month for FTTC.

Not sure why OR FTTP doesnt have it as an option. Is it available wholesale at 1 month commit?

I know from post experience that AAISP has a first class technical support team. Given the copper-related issues associated with FTTC, their ability to get things resolved was worth paying a premium for. However, FTTP just works. In the 2 1/2 years with Aquiss, I have had one short loss of service. This was a network issue that impacted a number of ISPs.

If I think back to these forums some years ago, they were filled with people complaining about the service that they were getting. Look at them today, some ISP forums don't get a post in weeks.