I was referring to our charges we are not interested in what others charge, if anything it's better for us if they charge more.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

If I own the business for service provider as I will not overcharge to the customers as I will make my company as a non-profit!

And where will you get the money to invest in new technology? If BT was a non-profit do you really think they'd be able to raise the billions of pounds needed to upgrade their network?

Take your point but I reckon most companies charge what they think the market will stand not what is a fair price. Works in all forms of profit with, I'm sure, all companies especially BT. Some people are under the impression BT is the master company and all I and a lot of others see is a company that is master at price rises and extracting cash from their customers giving as little as possible in return especially customer service.

Caley.

There are the USO obligations imposed on BT Retail, those do not excuse any excessive price rises, but the price of BT Basic which is below the wholesale cost (£5 per month versus £9 per month if I recall) will have some impact.

Not aware of the volume of people on BT Basic but it will factor in, and don't forget to factor in the cost/value that any call bundle represents.

In reply to a post by Andrue:

If BT was a non-profit do you really think they'd be able to raise the billions of pounds needed to upgrade their network?

Corbyn's back pocket !

In reply to a post by vivaciti:

I can't im afraid ours has not gone up for some years now, I cant speak for the others, although a profit does have to be made.

I think it's the ongoing thing where the broadband usage is going up but people still resent paying for their unlimited services and are up in arms whenever they can't get full speed. The money to fund the usage has to come from somewhere, people think broadband must cost next to nothing, so line rental it is.

I remember the old labour party under gordon brown want to charge every household of 50p tax on the line rental for investiment for superfast fibre broadband around uk. But, at the end they failure it, didn't work out.

In reply to a post by MHC:

Corbyn's back pocket !


His plans are:

Go back to Britsh Rail network
Go back to British Gas
Go back to British Airways
Go back to British Telecom

everythings go back to the old day in 1980's.

You forgot British Leyland...

But they did plan to get 2 Mbps to everyone by 2012, a tall order as with 18 months to go nothing had been to done to meet this task and back in 2010 a lot more people were under the 2 Mbps threshold.