[UK-Bug] News Summary, Bulldog, Free 2MB ADSL, SDSL pricing

Bulldog's Primetime 1000 down in price !
http://snurl.com/2du0

Free 2mb ADSL ?
http://snurl.com/2du1

SDSL Wholesale pricing
http://snurl.com/2du2

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Andy Jenkins

http://www.uk-bug.net : The UK Broadband Usergroup.

"Andy Jenkins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> SDSL Wholesale pricing
> http://snurl.com/2du2
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Can someone explain to me why on earth anyone would get an SDSL 250 line
costing £1900+vat for the first year (plus ISP costs), when they could get
an ADSL 512 line for around £350 *all in* for the year, which has the same
upload speed but a download speed that is twice as fast?

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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:50:34 +0100, "Slugsie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>"Andy Jenkins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
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>> SDSL Wholesale pricing
>> http://snurl.com/2du2
>>
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>Can someone explain to me why on earth anyone would get an SDSL 250 line
>costing £1900+vat for the first year (plus ISP costs), when they could get
>an ADSL 512 line for around £350 *all in* for the year, which has the same
>upload speed but a download speed that is twice as fast?

Contention is one reason - 10:1 is the last figure I heard quoted for
all SDSL IP Stream based products.

The other is SLAs. BT will provide an (almost) water tight SLA for
its customers - so the reliability of SDSL is *much* higher than
ADSL..

There is a caveat to all this as well mind. BT IP Stream SDSL will
not support any voice on the line. So a dedicated line would be
required as well.

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Andy Jenkins
UK Broadband Usergroup : http://www.uk-bug.net