Story: BT moves closer to universal broadband
BT money grabbers
I have lived in rural Wales for some time now and find the attitude of BT to it's minority of cutomers that live in rural areas way beyond abysmal!!!!!
When I lived in mid Powys where the local population was scattered on hill farms with one small hamlet of 12 houses they expected us to fork out the cash to install Broadband.
I now live in the south of the county and have been trying to get the fabulous 8mb broadband (2 yes sir 6.5mb minimum up to 8mb") since February 2006it is now late November 2006.
Hurrah it is installed with a Home Hub and Softphone and a speed of 250kb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And they want to charge me the going rate for 8mb.
There must be technology available that will allow us to get better service, both from the management and the equipment.
I have suggested that a pig-a-back signal booster system could be used in the voids at the top of our wonderful red telephone boxes; another would be to add some sort of device in the "green boxes". The best would be for the government to insist that we in rural areas get equal opportunity like everyonee else.
I personally would, if in government, charge BT a minimum of £1 million a day! until they got their act together, swift results would be acheived methinks.
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