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Re:What future for BT and the UK's broadband? by dijit on Thursday February 25, 2016 @08:45AM (#11174341)
May I ask if Virgin Media are also in the area?

the inclination being that BT only goes where Virgin goes.. if you have fibre then you have a choice, but if you're running ADSL then BT doesn't hear you.. BT doesn't care.

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Re:What future for BT and the UK's broadband? by djaychela on Saturday February 27, 2016 @03:21AM (#11186520)
Virgin is available at home, but I have two friends who have it, both hate the service, and I don't like the TV setup at all (and know that the ui would not be popular with my mum who is in her late 70s and lives with me), so I wouldn't have gone with them anyway.
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Re:What future for BT and the UK's broadband? by arethuza on Thursday February 25, 2016 @08:51AM (#11174361)
I have BT Infinity 2 FTTC in an area (in central Edinburgh) where Virgin is not available.
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Re:What future for BT and the UK's broadband? by dijit on Thursday February 25, 2016 @09:14AM (#11174499)
Oh excellent, I love to be proven wrong when I'm feeling cynical. :)

Cheers.

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Re:What future for BT and the UK's broadband? by ibmthrowaway271 on Thursday February 25, 2016 @09:23AM (#11174550)
Another anecdata, but on the other side of the coin:

Virgin cable available right now, BT have put off upgrading my cabinet to FTTC for over 4 years now.

Still, I'm getting ~8Mbps/1MBps so it's hardly a reason to complain.

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