Mand, I'm referring primarily to BT and Ofcom when talking about 'shafting'. My concerns with Plusnet are that the delay is due to 'complex billing systems' etc. The point has been made. There's nothing more to add to that.

Market 1 and 2 customers with Plusnet don't subsidise everyone else. We pay higher wholesale costs on those lines, so charge more.

So the extra price gets passed to BT, which is what I was saying (see start of the bit you quoted back). While FTTx will certainly require more investment at Market 2 & 3 exchanges, existing physical mediums cost nothing if already there, so costs are at the exchange side, as with Market 3, so there has never really been a good reason for it, and yet the people who live in rural and semi-rural areas get higher prices, for slower services typically. LLU is not going to happen in most of these places it would seem, so they will wait and wait and wait for FTTx only to find that the "costs will not be viable". BT roll out Infinity at £20, and yet Market 1 customers pay the same for 0.5 Meg. It is criminal.


Ticket: #39236146

I wasn't expecting immediate action on it, but hoped for a response with an approximate date.

If your usage is mainly web, maybe Extra would be worth a look as performance for web traffic will be the same.

Yes, it's mainly web, but it's not all web mand. My driving is mainly in 30mph areas, but it would be nice to think the car will do 70mph if I want to use the motorway.

In reply to a post by camieabz:

Mand, I'm referring primarily to BT and Ofcom when talking about 'shafting'. My concerns with Plusnet are that the delay is due to 'complex billing systems' etc. The point has been made. There's nothing more to add to that.

Apologies for the confusion there.

In reply to a post by camieabz:

Ticket: #39236146

I wasn't expecting immediate action on it, but hoped for a response with an approximate date.

The ticket path states to allow a week for a response to these tickets, as it's a manual process.

In reply to a post by camieabz:

Yes, it's mainly web, but it's not all web mand. My driving is mainly in 30mph areas, but it would be nice to think the car will do 70mph if I want to use the motorway.

Point taken, but if you use the motorway once a month for 10 minutes, is it worth paying the extra for the faster car?

Not if the car will require extra fuel (added GB) to make the journey (30GB).

Analogies are so silly.

Driving faster uses more fuel, no?

Yes, anologies are silly. But sometimes it's hard to stop.

In reply to a post by mand_beckett:

The ticket path states to allow a week for a response to these tickets, as it's a manual process.

Ten days and counting.

I would have to think that if £5 a month breaks the bank then give it or something else up.

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Frankly, if someone asks me my finanical situation, I say "Mind your own business".

That aside, if it's not worth bothering about, then you have a different attitude to money, debt, bills and finance in general. Send me a fiver every month, and I'll be happy about Plusnet taking it. No? Why not, it's only a fiver.

Just to clarify:

In reply to a post by camieabz:

A fiver a month is nothing to most people, but it's not BT's or Plusnet's fiver.

It's a principle issue, as opposed to a finance issue.

There's an old saying - look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.

Possibly more true than ever these days

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