Reply to post: Re: There are already so many other ways to plug this fiscal hole.

Re: There are already so many other ways to plug this fiscal hole.

...and one of them turned up in my Inbox at coffee time this morning.

Earlier this year I declined BT's offer of an increase in speed of our FTTC service from 54 MB/s to 76 Mb/s at an increased price. The lower speed - even if reduced by any contention - was more than enough to meet our needs. As an (admittedly discredited) advertisement once said "Why Pay More?"

So BT's email turned up, telling me that the price was going to go up anyway, along with an unnecessary increase in speed to... 76 Mb/s. For those who want universal FTTP this is a foretaste of things to come; the paying customer is going to be royally gouged; I suggest that this price rise is nothing in comparison to what is going to happen if BT's idea of ditching FTTC (and the more basic ADSL service) is given Ofcom approval.

Thanks a lot, speed freaks...