No.

Plusnet change the same for a given package regardless of your physical location. Thats my point. Its irrelevant what Plusnet pay BT or anyone else as the consumer gets the same deal everywhere in the UK where a service is provided.

You are not quoted a price by an ISP for a standard broadband connection, based upon your location.

In reply to a post by tri_hard:

No.

Plusnet change the same for a given package regardless of your physical location. Thats my point. Its irrelevant what Plusnet pay BT or anyone else as the consumer gets the same deal everywhere in the UK where a service is provided.


You are not quoted a price by an ISP for a standard broadband connection, based upon your location.

I'd recommend checking before posting with such certainty...

http://www.plus.net/

Scroll down a bit to the "Pricing" heading.

You seem to have missed the point I was making.... it isn't about Speed provided to individual lines.. its about exchanges that remain in IPSC especially as WBC roll out seems to have stalled in many areas.

My "long" line is a shade under 2 miles... the speed around here is governed by the fact that we have been bypassed for WBC - the dates for this county being withdrawn around the same time as the FTTx roll out started.

The exchange stats on sam knows are well out of date - according to a couple of BT guys I have spoken to it now has in excess of 10k lines. Hardly a tiny exchange on a village green in the middle of nowhere. There is LLU here for college and Local Authority use. My ISP sells by Peak allowance so there is a ceiling on use for most people. There is a price difference between WBC and IPSC that was designed to provide leverage to to ISPs to move to WBC - assuming you have WBC access to enable a move.

The anomaly is shown by the differing prices charged by Plus net.

Edited by deleted (Sun 19-Jun-11 17:38:55)

Post deleted by Spetznaz

BT_Care (a BT Broadband ISP representative) even claimed that by 2010 all exchanges would be enabled for its so-called up-to 20Mbps service. This of course is simply not the case as I pointed out nearly a year ago. Almost all market-1 exchanges and many market-2 exchanges won't see 21CN for a long time to come. The only thing we will see is a deepening digital divide.

I stand corrected - I apologise for my error.

One point does not however make a line or a pattern.

Apart from Plusnet then ......

IIRC I thought that ADSL2+ from BT Wholesale was due to reach around 80% of the population this year?

In reply to a post by adebov:

Don't worry.....In a few years we'll all be able to laugh at them and their 1st generation old equipment

Maybe in a decade or so - I think that BT have stopped their 21CN voice roll-out..

Regards
Sunil

I don't think it matters how close your nearest LLU or FTTC exchange is if yours doesn't have either.

stand corrected

however if it was differnt pricing structure based off what you have access to one would find the people would be without broadband because there will be a price point when its not worth providing broadband as they will not make a profit, and upgrading to a higher capable infrastructure would not make business sense.

The question would then be do you want to pay what you pay not for what you have or pay nothing and have nothing