A basic bog standard ADSL connection that costs me €15/mo. It's what could happen if the govt intervened to tell france telecom (BT equiv) to stop fucking around and open up their lines to the competition.
Sorry Scott, didn't mean to turn this into a speedtest pissing competition, but it frustrates me how I see BT cock blocking innovation and competition. There's a fibre box outside my house that I can plug into to have 100mbs asynchronous, but I can't be arsed - it would cost me €30/mo and so why bother when for €15/mo I see no lag in any connections?
Other innovations that BT cock block is VoIP - for €1/mo I have a main line, another €1 I have the equivalent of an 0800 freephone number (for the kids), another €1 I have a Manchester 0161 number so my UK mates can call me at their UK rates, whatever that may be for them, and for another €1/mo a premium rate number (€1.50/call) that I use for my customers to call, so I make money each time they bug me. At any point I can simply buy a new VoIP phone and redirect any number to that - eg a family of 5 could have 5 lines separate, one for each person, for €5/mo only. All calling 40 countries for free.
The UK is a frikken long long way away from that amount of freedom, and there's no reason why they should be, except for BT cock blocking....
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and if you think BT isn't cock blocking how is it I can go to the UK, or the US, or frikken middle-of-nowhere, take my WiFi-enabled VoIP phone plug it into the electricity socket, connect it to a WiFi network and have all my calls arrive there, and make all my calls from there for free? The UK still pay for the privilege of using a telephone, when all that is needed is an internet connection. And a clear one. Hell, when my smartphone is on a wifi connection, that's what I do - I don't know of a single UK person that doesn't cringe (because of their bill) calling the US on their cell phone....