Oh certainly

is asymmetrical more common on copper lines?

75 pm for that connection is incredibly cheap

Yeah

@Crafty neither

I bet you get hardly any drops

It's based on company and contract

75/m for broadband is not affordable for the overwhelming majority of people

@Eccles I didnt say it was

True, but I'd argue it's more common on copper since there's lower throughput on the cables

Meaning they're more anal about it and try to maxmimize connections through that cable

@Eccles they offer a 25pm 9ffering too

Don't tell me, wladfa, tell Nathan who thinks that forcing everyone onto overpriced fibre is somehow a good idea

You say this like A. I can control it and B. Like it's going to stop <:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

All that'll happen is you'll price about a third of the country out of a broadband connection

It's going to happen regardless, you might end up with copper last mile but the majority will transform into fibre

As more people go onto the fibre packages, the prices will drop

@Nathan James 123 maybe

Might take some time

True, but it will certainly happen

Take fucking years out here

Only got broadband at all here 2 years ago

If you're in the middle of nowhere youre not getting it any time soon

Unless the gov makes it happen

In which case, good luck protesting it

If they can't make it happen, they can't turn off copper

I'm in an area that created their own fibre backbone as a community project

They can and they will

Ofc they can

You have no right to a copper line

They will just end your contract.

Then I will vote Labour and you can all have your broadband fucked

As if I'm writing the rules and not just commenting on them

You're wild mad

Yup

But yeah, the connection I have is expensive, but the price has dropped dramatically over the past years

someone mentioned pensions -

``A Labour government would compensate shareholders by issuing government bonds. Mr McDonnell gave a guarantee that no pensioner would lose out as a result of the nationalisation.
He said Labour had taken legal advice, including ensuring pension funds with investments in BT are not left out of pocket.
As with other planned Labour nationalisations, he said MPs would set the value of the company at the time of it being taken into public ownership. ``

Previously a gig symmetrical would be a leased line

So they'll replace valuable investment with worthless government bonds, i'm sure that'll reassure them, Crafty

£75 pm is the same as Virgin over coax which was awful

They're going to make a valuable investment even more valuable