Is Broadband Too Expensive?

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Is it just me, or is broadband too expensive? When you stop to consider that it's like a fancy aerial, that you haven't even started paying for services yet, then to me, it just seems rather a lot. I mean, you can buy a fair bit of electricity for £50pcm.

Oh, by the way, the reason for the post is that there are rumours of very large increases in the next five months or so. Around 10%.
 
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Have you considered how expensive digging up roads and network kit is? There are certainly some ISPs that take the **** with prices but to lay a fibre to your house and connecting that through infrastructure to an Internet Exchange is not cheap to install or run, let alone maintaining it, support, staff training, billing etc.
 
I've been with Virgin Media for nearly ten years at this property (since 2000 elsewhere) and have generally paid £30 a month (£25 currently) and the speed has increased over that time as well, so no I don't think its too much. If it kept with inflation it would be way more.
 
It's also been getting cheaper in real terms every year, that's before you take into account anything like price per Mbps. 512k Pipex ADSL in 2001 was like £25 or something, on top of line rental.
 
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Hardly considering the amount of investment required to get networks up and running, depends who you go with and what is offered, I get 900/900 for £30 a month.
 
I would agree it can be too much but this would only be in some situations others I would say price wise many different options putting it into affordable.

The case of people who are in area which offers say CityFibre with only a couple of providers who want £40-50 per month this is expensive.

The largest rip off currently is most people was forced to take a landline no choice we was told extra between £15-20 per month this costs yet now that is not required and prices have gone up.
 
edGfaCTor said:
The largest rip off currently is most people was forced to take a landline no choice we was told extra between £15-20 per month this costs yet now that is not required and prices have gone up.
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The landline cost has been rolled into an overall monthly broadband price for over half a decade now, you'd find very few ISPs even willing to provide broadband where someone else was doing line rental. There hasn't been a line rental price displayed to end users for a long time.
 
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Caged said:
It's also been getting cheaper in real terms every year, that's before you take into account anything like price per Mbps. 512k Pipex ADSL in 2001 was like £25 or something, on top of line rental.
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It was £23.44 I remember I had it. I'm currently paying £24 so things havn't changed a lot other than the speed (36mbps)

Have you considered how expensive digging up roads and network kit is? There are certainly some ISPs that take the **** with prices but to lay a fibre to your house and connecting that through infrastructure to an Internet Exchange is not cheap to install or run, let alone maintaining it, support, staff training, billing etc.
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Apparently most of it is BT pensions unless you have cable or mobile thats what you're paying for
 
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Personally it's gotten cheaper for me. Have been in this house 8 years and we were always stuck with BT as it was a new build in a new area where BT/Openreach were the only options until recently when it was opened up to other providers.
Price was between £35-40 for that time and highest speed I had was 150mbps.
Now I am with Vodafone for £30 a month and have 500mbps.
 
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It was £23.44 I remember I had it. I'm currently paying £24 so things havn't changed a lot other than the speed (36mbps)
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In real terms means adjusted for inflation, £23.44 in 2001 is over £40 today, and there was line rental on top. So broadband has been getting cheaper each year.

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Apparently most of it is BT pensions unless you have cable or mobile thats what you're paying for
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BT pensions have nothing to do with non-Openreach networks. CityFibre lost £210m last year.
 
Always some decent deals about if you can be bothered to look. I pay £3, yes £3 for unlimited 5G and have 500-600Mbps down and 50-80Mbps up. Sadly my deal comes to an end in March and it looks like it will go up to around £7.
 
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