Lol! They've made the top 5 then!

Complete rubbish. I guess you work for BT or sub contract for them. Most people pay far more then £10 for a poor service the average is over £20 a month

Plenty of people will pay a reasonable amount for fast Broadband the problem is not that they will not pay but that it is not available.

BT have never been able to sell or market their services.

People will happilly spend a small fortune on mobile phones and on apps & Broadband for mobiles because these people no how to market & sell & upsell.

The claim that people will not pay more then £10 a month is plainly daft and demonstratably so. Price would not be an issue for most people unless it went over £40. The vast majority would be prepared to pay between £25 & £40 a month. Sure if people can get Brodband at £10 a month they will but most pay far more. There are not even many ISP's offering anything uusable at £10 a month

The average paid per month for Broadband is over £20 which shows how daft the £10 claim is

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Just as this thread started to get repetitive, Beekie saves the day!

Lol - it's nice to see someone happy with their lot in life, ain't it?

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In reply to a post by mrnelster:

Just as this thread started to get repetitive, Beekie saves the day!

Lol - it's nice to see someone happy with their lot in life, ain't it?

Ain't it just? I never wanted a career in the first place - I was a lot happier with the Crayons!!

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In reply to a post by Bob_s2:

BT goes in for what I would call trailing edge Broadband.

Probably not unrelated to the Great British Public being only prepared to accept trailing edge pricing.

Telecomms is no different to anything else- you get what you pay for.

Quite.

http://www22.verizon.com/Residential/FiOSInternet/Ov...
http://www.optimum.com/online/pricing.jsp

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The claim that people will not pay more then £10 a month is plainly daft and demonstratably so.

Go on, then, demonstrate it

Personally I don't think a specific figure can be proved either way but what is obvious is that price is the most common factor in most discussions when people are choosing ISP. Performance is often mentioned but usually it's just a generic moan about ISPs. It's uncommon to see anyone except experienced and knowledgeable users linking the two.

Pretty much all the best performing ISPs are the expensive ones and most of them have a small market share. Be/O2 can give people on their exchanges (75% of the population I think) what acts like an uncontended connection. 85% of sync speed 24/7. They can do that for less than £20pcm. Yet Be/O2 are a minority ISP.

Personally I'd say most people won't go above £20pcm and a lot think that £10pcm is too much. Very few home users would be prepared to go above £20pcm.

Edited by Andrue (Mon 11-Apr-11 22:03:46)

BT have never been able to sell or market their services.

People will happilly spend a small fortune on mobile phones and on apps & Broadband for mobiles because these people no how to market & sell & upsell.

On the contrary, I think they did the marketing bit perfectly. It's the delivery where they fell down.

Most of the people who pay more are people like me who fell for the marketing and got stuck on useless connections. In 7 days time I'm moving onwards and upwards to FTTC with Aquiss. That's right, paying more again but knowing this time that the connection will justify the cost for my requirements. Not to mention their attitude toward customers that would probably make Ghandi a happy man.

The challenge will be persuading those who don't need high speeds at the moment, that they will soon and stopping them from reverting back to a cheaper connection that probably won't perform any worse anyway.

And in this economic climate that is no mean feat.

Edited by mrnelster (Mon 11-Apr-11 22:29:47)

In reply to a post by billford:

In reply to a post by Bob_s2:

BT goes in for what I would call trailing edge Broadband.

Probably not unrelated to the Great British Public being only prepared to accept trailing edge pricing.

Telecomms is no different to anything else- you get what you pay for.

Slightly different for many users. They have to pay for what they can get. It's not as if they can import it, or change their supplier in many cases (market 1).

True enough, but I was thinking more from the "national" point of view rather than the individual user (who does have some choice even on a Market 1, but it's largely in the area of congestion, customer service etc).

But if the Great British Public wants decent broadband then the Great British Public is going to have to pay for it, one way or another.