AOL Criticises BT Midband - Expensive
Posted: 03rd May, 2003 By: MarkJ
AOL UK has become one of the first ISPs to criticise BTs forthcoming, remarketed, ISDN based 'Midband' service, which hasn't received much in the way of praise from our own readers either:
However, rivals have slammed the service for being too expensive. It costs just £1.50 less a month than BT's Broadband service but will half the download speed. The service switches between 64k and 128k depending on what you are doing online.
"Midband may offer rural internet users slightly increased speed but at a premium price," said a spokesman for AOL.
BT insists that the Midband service, which launches 1 June, should not be seen as a broadband substitute and said it is still "committed to bring mass market broadband within reach of 90 per cent of UK homes".
BT would have done a far better job by simply cutting the cost of its existing HomeHighway (ISDN) line rental. More @ Web-User.
However, rivals have slammed the service for being too expensive. It costs just £1.50 less a month than BT's Broadband service but will half the download speed. The service switches between 64k and 128k depending on what you are doing online.
"Midband may offer rural internet users slightly increased speed but at a premium price," said a spokesman for AOL.
BT insists that the Midband service, which launches 1 June, should not be seen as a broadband substitute and said it is still "committed to bring mass market broadband within reach of 90 per cent of UK homes".
BT would have done a far better job by simply cutting the cost of its existing HomeHighway (ISDN) line rental. More @ Web-User.
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