Re: ADSL

["Stuart Grimshaw" <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

Sorry, yes I didn't put that in my origional mail, that's 200 ukp a month!!

I'm writing an email to BT to ask about these prices, and why they seem so
intent on depriving the "man in the street" proper access to the
internet.

I know why, it's because with ADSL they will lose the majority of their
business ISDN costomers, and they don't want that.

----- Original Message -----
From: Timothy Morris <mail@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 2:01 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] ADSL


> Is that ?200 per month or quarter? The latter would be just about
bearable -
> but at two and a half grand a year, I think someone is taking the
piss!
>
> Tim.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 08 April 2000 10:52
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] ADSL
>
>
> Since I found aout my exchange is ADSL enabled (woohoo!) I've canceled
by
> Cable & Wireless connection (which I was going to do anyway), and
I'm
going
> back to BT.
>
> I've been scouring ISP's the length and breadth of the country trying
to
> find one that offers or is planning to offer a DSL service, and
they've
all
> come back with the same answer - "No, it'd be too expensive to
offer".
Only
> one of those ISP's actually quoted a price (uklinux.net) at 200+ ukp,
plus
> an "excess bandwidth charge" which they havn't been quoted a
price for.
>
> It seems BT have priced this service, not only out of the common man's
price
> range, but also out of the ISP's who must offer it, the only 2 ISP's
that
I
> know of to offer a DSL service are Freenetname and Demon, but they're
both
> only trials, with no details of what the final price will be.
>
> I seem to remember OFTEL telling BT they must offer the service at a
rate
of
> around 50 ukp a month, or did I just dream that?
>
> Does anyone else know of any ISP's offering DSL at a proper rate, or
indeed
> has anyone been quoted any prices whatsoever for a DSL service?
>
>
>
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