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September 29, 2005

UK Broadband

danger @ 12:16 am

Just while you are enjoying your 2meg line, check out this blog post from Tom Raftery, pointing out that in the UK you can get a 24meg down 1.3meg up broadband connection from BT for roughly €40 a month. I’m going green, particularly at the upload speed. Irish providers seem to think of uploading as some sort of afterthought barely worth the trouble and seem determined to force the users-as-one-way-consumer model on us. Tom Raftery’s I.T. Views click!

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1 Comment

  1. You see danger, If they were to give us upload speed, how would they sell it to hosting companies?
    You don’t expect them to just sell the line once do you?? :p

    €ircon are a joke, they make a fortune and supply us with substandard services. Then they hold everyone else who want to make money to ransom (smart telecom being a perfect example).

    Comment by Ed — September 29, 2005 @ 10:03 am

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