Simon

Cumbria

IT

What a load of fertiliser !

"The most expensive standalone 8Mbps package is currently offered by Orange at £20 per month ..."

Rubbish. There are 'up to 8M' packages for more than that - mostly from the smaller providers that understand the concept of customers getting pissed off if they can't get any data through their ISPs over congested backhaul. I pay about £24/mo for my broadband, but I get decent transfer rates even at peak times ! If you want to be really pedantic, I believe we pay something in exess of £900/mo for a 6M line at work - but that is uncontended and uncapped.

here we have YET ANOTHER "isn't it wonderful how cheap it's getting" article about Broadband that completely fails to mention that it's mostly so cheap is because the ISPs are marketing on price and forgetting the quality. We need more articles on why "cheap is bad" because it simply makes the product crap - and because of the fixation on cheap (and lies), it's hard for an honest ISP to market on quality.