Virgin Broadband Overpriced

Why haven't they dropped their £24.99 unlimited 512k broadband price? Is it
just me or is it beginning to look really expensive now.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:d5cmos$ij3$(E-Mail Removed):

> Why haven't they dropped their £24.99 unlimited 512k broadband price?
> Is it just me or is it beginning to look really expensive now.

As far as I know, they don't charge activation fee or tie to a 12 month
contract. They've got to get their money back somehow.

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(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Why haven't they dropped their £24.99 unlimited 512k broadband price? Is it
> just me or is it beginning to look really expensive now.

If they look expensive and you are worried about price choose a cheaper
ISP. Free market and all that.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:d5cmos$ij3$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Why haven't they dropped their £24.99 unlimited 512k broadband price? Is
it
> just me or is it beginning to look really expensive now.
>
>
What you have to look at is the TCO for 12 months then 24 months to see if
they are or are not expensive.

On Thu, 5 May 2005 09:50:33 +0100, <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Why haven't they dropped their £24.99 unlimited 512k broadband price?
>Is it just me or is it beginning to look really expensive now.

You could ask similar questions about a few ISPs now there's a growth in a
user getting 2000 kbps if the line to the exchange will support it... But
of course some will offer a service at 15-18 quid and have a 1-3 GB quota!

See www.broadbandchecker.co.uk and you may get results like these:

AOL 24.99 for 1000 kbps
29.99 for 2000 kbps

BT Broadband 17.99 for 1000 kbps ( 1 GB cap)
24.99 for 2000 kbps (15 GB cap)

BT Yahoo 26.99 for 2000 kbps (15 GB cap)
29.99 for 2000 kbps (30 GB cap)

Tiscali 15.99 for 1000 kbps ( 3 GB cap)
19.99 for 2000 kbps (20 GB cap)

Wanadoo 17.99 for 1000 kbps ( 2 GB cap)
22.99 for 1000 ( 6 GB cap)
27.99 for 1000 (30 GB)

EFHbroadband has a generous cap, as does freedom2surf.net (50 GB for
about 25 quid from memory)...

At the lower price, Plus.Net Broadband Plus has no cap and is 14.99
while for heavier users (peer-to-peer, newsgroup binaries) 21.99 is
the regular fee, which undercuts most (or all?) of the popular ISPs,
and will be fine for regular (sub 50 GB/mth) users, without needing
to watch what they download to stay within limits. Peter M.

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Peter M <us-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

: At the lower price, Plus.Net Broadband Plus has no cap and is 14.99
: while for heavier users (peer-to-peer, newsgroup binaries) 21.99 is
: the regular fee, which undercuts most (or all?) of the popular ISPs,
: and will be fine for regular (sub 50 GB/mth) users, without needing
: to watch what they download to stay within limits. Peter M.

I *WAS* considering moving my home ISP to PlusNet but now, like a lot of
people, will not even consider it! They keep changing their mind on the
"rules" each month and no-one knows what is coming next!

On Thu, 05 May 2005 13:08:02 +0100, Peter M <us-(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Plus.Net Broadband Plus has no cap and is 14.99

it does have throttling of some traffic though, and their weasel said
"Based on a 50:1 PlusNet network contention"

now we know they have other products that say 30:1 contention on the
Plusnet network, so this is presumably a more congested product (using
contention rather than caps to manage user demand).

As BT's exchange to ISP network runs in practice at about 15:1 I
assume I should compare the above contention rates with Zen's "We
guarantee NO CONTENTION on our network." (I take NO to mean 1:1 or
less).

So with Zen the BT exchange to Zen link will be the limit, but with
Plusnet there will be a greater degree of contention at the ISP end
and hence I can expect to see maybe half or 1/3rd the speed at times??

Discuss :-)

Phil

On 05 May 2005 14:14, Phil Thompson wrote:

>now we know they have other products that say 30:1 contention on the
>Plusnet network, so this is presumably a more congested product (using
>contention rather than caps to manage user demand).

The contention may affect the heavier binary users, wanting tens of GB a
month, and Plus.Net have not been hiding it being unsuitable for them.

>So with Zen the BT exchange to Zen link will be the limit, but with
>Plusnet there will be a greater degree of contention at the ISP end
>and hence I can expect to see maybe half or 1/3rd the speed at times??

I doubt it, but it will be quite interesting to see how things change over
the next 6 months, as more customers get 2000 kbps connections. Certainly
I will be keeping my eye on both Premier and Plus accounts (I expect to be
using a Plus account by then, handy for my needs, and cheap too). Peter.

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On Thu, 05 May 2005 15:49:54 +0100, Peter M <us-(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>The contention may affect the heavier binary users, wanting tens of GB a
>month, and Plus.Net have not been hiding it being unsuitable for them.

that's the traffic shaping though isn't it, the contention hits
everybody on that type of account.

Phil
Tiscali - dialup speeds at Broadband prices :-)

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On 05 May 2005 16:59, Phil Thompson wrote:

>that's the traffic shaping though isn't it, the contention hits
>everybody on that type of account.

Well the traffic shaping might mean 0 kbps until after midnight.
Even plus.Net staff indicated that 50:1 would "not be usable" so
they do have their heads screwed on and if someone is just grabbing
web pages and e-mail then the contention should still be a limited
issue, if at all. Streaming/heavy downloading would be affected.
Let's just wait and see.

I am sure that it will get modifications if they are needed, once
it has had sufficient numbers of customers to make a difference.

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