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<blockquote data-quote="Dry Rot" data-source="post: 6976679" data-attributes="member: 4505"><p>I am in pretty much the same situation. I wa with Plusnet getting crap speed. Told EE was good, so phoned them and they said, yes, I could get fibre at a predicted 34. So changed to EE. No difference. Engineers attended by the bus load (well, not quite!). They eventually said it was because I am on copper wire and improvement was not ossible. Fibre goes past the gate 300m away.</p><p></p><p>So why am I paying for 34Mb/s fibre when I'm getting 2 and 0.7? So I changed to standard with the cheapest provider I could find -- Post Office at £15/month. Then, as I said, they laid the fibre cable past my gate. So I phone the PO to ask about this. Yes! I can get fibre! Yippee!</p><p></p><p>So I changed to the PO fibre tarriff -- no improvement, same speeds. More rude letters and more phone calls. Another engineer comes out and tests everything. Yes, I can get the latest high speed at 40 but would need to change to BT who have a monopoly and want £40 a month. Being on copper wire makes no difference and is apparently BS. <strong>Prices will not come down until their monopoly is broken</strong>. So there's your answer. I have a nephew who is a project manager with BT and intend checking with him soon, but his wife just died so it won't be tomorrow. Yes, I think it probably is available, but arrange to win the lottery first.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dry Rot, post: 6976679, member: 4505"] I am in pretty much the same situation. I wa with Plusnet getting crap speed. Told EE was good, so phoned them and they said, yes, I could get fibre at a predicted 34. So changed to EE. No difference. Engineers attended by the bus load (well, not quite!). They eventually said it was because I am on copper wire and improvement was not ossible. Fibre goes past the gate 300m away. So why am I paying for 34Mb/s fibre when I'm getting 2 and 0.7? So I changed to standard with the cheapest provider I could find -- Post Office at £15/month. Then, as I said, they laid the fibre cable past my gate. So I phone the PO to ask about this. Yes! I can get fibre! Yippee! So I changed to the PO fibre tarriff -- no improvement, same speeds. More rude letters and more phone calls. Another engineer comes out and tests everything. Yes, I can get the latest high speed at 40 but would need to change to BT who have a monopoly and want £40 a month. Being on copper wire makes no difference and is apparently BS. [B]Prices will not come down until their monopoly is broken[/B]. So there's your answer. I have a nephew who is a project manager with BT and intend checking with him soon, but his wife just died so it won't be tomorrow. Yes, I think it probably is available, but arrange to win the lottery first. [/QUOTE]
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