Tiscali expensive and slow 512k still 24.99?

Can anyone comment why tiscali are still not pushing 1mB connections for
home users and why they still charge 24.99 for a 512k connection. This is
well above average and very expensive in my book. A friend of mine is about
to end a contract with them and is looking at getting a 1mB deal for much
less then their offering. I think if they don't change their costs they are
going to lose out.

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:07:37 -0000, "Tez" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Can anyone comment why tiscali are still not pushing 1mB connections for
>home users

they can barely provide enough capacity to support existing connection
speeds

> and why they still charge 24.99 for a 512k connection.

to make more money ?

Phil
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On 28 Nov 2004 in uk.telecom.broadband, "Tez" wrote:

>This is well above average and very expensive in my book.

24.99 is far from "very expensive", while not being the cheapest.
Take a look at the suggested services on www.uswitch.com or go
to the Clara.net web site, or just check for more expensive on a
site like ADSLguide.org. No surprise there are cheaper options,
but I doubt Tiscali, or many other ISPs for that matter, will be
at all worried about a minority of customers acting by migrating
to protest at 'higher' charges from their current ISP. I moved,
from Freeserve at 27.99 500 kbps to 1000 kbps service for 26.50,
and it has taken a further year for Freeserve (now Wanadoo) fees
to be moved down to compete 'reasonably' with others. Peter M.




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On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:07:37 -0000, "Tez" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Can anyone comment why tiscali are still not pushing 1mB connections

You do realise that 1mB is one millibyte? hmm.....

"Tez" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Can anyone comment why tiscali are still not pushing 1mB connections
> for home users and why they still charge 24.99 for a 512k connection.
> This is well above average and very expensive in my book. A friend of
> mine is about to end a contract with them and is looking at getting a
> 1mB deal for much less then their offering. I think if they don't
> change their costs they are going to lose out.
>
>
>
>

And in case you signed up and than decide to migrate they will not provide
yoy with the MAC data.

"One2Go" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Tez" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:(E-Mail Removed):
>
>> Can anyone comment why tiscali are still not pushing 1mB connections
>> for home users and why they still charge 24.99 for a 512k connection.
>> This is well above average and very expensive in my book. A friend of
>> mine is about to end a contract with them and is looking at getting a
>> 1mB deal for much less then their offering. I think if they don't
>> change their costs they are going to lose out.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> And in case you signed up and than decide to migrate they will not provide
> you with the MAC data.

Would you like to extend the info you gave, as I had a friend who migrated
from them a couple of months ago, no problems at all. How can they stop
you, if your contact has ended ? : - )

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:36:33 -0000, "Tez" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>as I had a friend who migrated
>from them a couple of months ago, no problems at all. How can they stop
>you, if your contact has ended ? : - )

the issue is whether you can "migrate" as opposed to "cease and
reprovide". AFAIK there is no mechanism yet to migrate from a
datastream connection to another ISP. Your friend may have had an
IPstream connection, or may not hav e"migrated" but "left" by othe
rmeans.

Phil
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"Tez" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Would you like to extend the info you gave, as I had a friend who migrated
> from them a couple of months ago, no problems at all. How can they stop
> you, if your contact has ended ? : - )
>
http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/postlist...&Board=tiscali

Oh, the joys of Tiscali!
NEVER use Tiscali!!!!!