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geoff writes:
In message , Geo
writes
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:30:21 +0100, tony sayer wrote:

Or if your areas cabled up then look at Virgin media, broadband is one
thing they do quite well
I have been with them for 7-8 years but looking round at ADSL now since VM will
be intercepting your browsing and passing the information on to a third party
(Phorm - with connections to Russia and China).

That's become less of a probability of late

Phorm are getting all kinds of **** thrown at them atm

Don't think that will make any difference.
Most residential ISPs are chosen only on price.
Competition in the residential sector has pushed the
price down below the cost of providing the service
(and this is on top of many of the ISPs now having a
leagacy of decrepid infrastructure which despirately
all needs replacing, for which they have no money).
They are basically now mostly competing to be the
worst^H^H^H^H^Hcheapest. ISPs have to find other
sources of income to finance the basic service, and
this is one of the avenues.

There will remain ISPs who decide to charge the
customer the full cost of the service in exchange for
not using Phorm and other measures to make up the
funds, but given most users choose only on price and
don't understand or don't object to Phorm, I think
you can expect it to be more common that additional
funding for the basic services will be recovered from
somewhere in order to quote lowest prices to the
masses.

If you want a service which gives you full speed all
the time and doesn't filter/shape and sell your inside
leg measurement to the chinese and has a call centre
which speaks english, you must expect to pay for it.
I do.

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