Posts by LessAnonymousCoward 4 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Mar 2018
"Why should I have to pay for a BBC licence fee when I don't watch any TV, I do stream Netflix, but I shouldn't have to pay for a defunct and corrupt corporation to survive."
You don't? If you don't watch TV (i.e. watching any live programme) and you don't use iPlayer, then you don't have to pay for a licence fee..
You're effectively saying the same thing - Line rental has become a charge for other services and I say it should be a flat rate for the use of the wire. If you use a telephony service or a broadband service on it, the costs of those should be reflected in them.
Surely the line cost is the same regardless of whether you have an internet service running on it? Why not just charge everyone the same line rental and reflect any additional cost related to an internet service in the pricing for the internet service... or would that just be too transparent?
I don't understand why people are downvoting this. If a standard broadband line can achieve up to 24Mbps then 30Mbps is hardly "superfast", especially when you consider FTTC up to 78Mbps has been around for over 5 years now, plus there is >100Mpbs cable which has been around longer.
As a consumer* I would consider 50-100Mbps as acceptable - I simply won't live anywhere with a line capable of less. 100-200 I would consider fast and I would prefer over my current 78Mbps. >200Mbps is superfast, asI think superfast should be the definition of the upper end - only available to those in high density areas given it should be whatever the cutting edge of residential distribution is.
*that is, my personal opinion and clearly not the opinion of current policy-setters
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