And the Chinese government is artificially keeping it's currency weak, which a lot of countries have complained about. So you can't even say it costs that much in £'s as you were recieveing an effective subsidy from the Chinese government.

Good to see you all happy getting such a good deal for your internet in the UK and will put up with it and never protest.

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

Good to see you all happy getting such a good deal for your internet in the UK and will put up with it and never protest.

The vast majority in the UK get very cheap and effective internet, though that leaves a large number getting poor internet and some effectively none.

Please can you give an approximate percentage of the population of China that can get over 12Mbps connection speed? What is available in Shanghai is totally irrelevant to the overall comparison of the UK and China.

Ah ... relevant from Wiki

A majority of broadband subscribers are DSL, mostly from China Telecom and China Netcom. The price varies at different provinces, usually around US$10 � $20/month for a 1M DSL with unlimited downloads.[citation needed]

Although mainland China has the largest Internet population, it had a penetration rate of 31.8% as of June 2010.

Amnesty International notes that China �has the largest recorded number of imprisoned journalists and cyber-dissidents in the world.� The "offences" they are accused of include "communicating with groups abroad", "opposing the persecution of the Falun Gong", "signing online petitions" and "calling for reform and an end to corruption".

Nice.

Edited by RobertoS (Wed 08-Jun-11 14:08:36)

Interesting article here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_the_People'...

The price varies at different provinces, usually around US$10 � $20/month for a 1M DSL with unlimited downloads.

edit- you spotted it first

Edited by billford (Wed 08-Jun-11 14:09:44)

All completely wrong misinformation as usual but if it make you feel better knock your selfs out.
Pulling info from a wiki site class.

When are you going back to China?

And the correct information is?

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-02/17/con...

Which appears to mix up its Mega Bytes and Mega bits per second.

http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/20...
Not clear whether they are talking some cities for China e.g. Macau or the whole country.

Two nice quotes from that

The company said that within three years, its broadband network plans to cover every city and convert all low-speed copper broadband wires to fiber optics, which will improve bandwidth capabilities. The maximum Internet speed will increase from 2 megabytes (MB) to 100 MB by 2015.

Note it says cities. I wonder what about the rest of the country?

The company currently has 70 million low-speed broadband users.

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

All completely wrong misinformation as usual but if it make you feel better knock your selfs out.
Pulling info from a wiki site class.

It's better than the information you supplied when I asked you, as that is zero. Perhaps you just like to slag things off in the UK compared to the first-class heavily censored, (and I don't mean porn, I mean real true world events news), service you claim to have had there. A service that is available to a tiny proportion and no apparent prospect of anything good getting outside the cities for several years.

There is a lot that could be improved here. These forums are full of sensible complaints, but yours isn't one of them.

The question you were asked by someone else as to when you are going back there seems relevant. Such a nice place. In fact, a photo of the apartment block and its environment might be interesting .