BT introducing bandwitdh limits?


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I doubt i use 15gb a month but its what it stands for, i pay about ?23 and i feel for that price i should be able to use it as much as a want and not be changed for more usage. GRR

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Same here looking to use and abuse the 1mb service once they get round to upgrading me. Then when my 12month contract runs out in November im off else where.

You know you can move to another ISP by using the migration service to other ISP's such as Nildram and Zen and several others. You can switch before the 12 months

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Just for people using BT as their ISP at the moment but other ISP's will follow suit slowly... Im on BT and I'll be changing to plus.net as soon as my contract is up...

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Hopefully I'll be ok as my ISP had several packages available and I specifically picked the package without download limits..

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You know you can move to another ISP by using the migration service to other ISP's such as Nildram and Zen and several others. You can switch before the 12 months

How exactly does this migration work, ive read and heard about it but i dont quite get it... I want to move to plus net, im currently on 512KB and want to get 1MB, how do I go about leaving BT with as little down time as possible?

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/me laughs @ all the people on BT

God I love my connection :whistle:

For the people who care bigpond

Me laughs at you - UNLUCKY mate... Bigpond cuts your connection to 64kbps if you download more than 10GB

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I just spoke to a manager of BT Broadband customer services. He confirmed, that this is a new term of service released today and taking effect in 2005.

It applies to all BT products.

1Gb on BB Basic

15Gb on 512k BB

30Gb on 1Mbit BB

If you go over they will charge ?2 per Gigabyte.

I informed the Gentleman that I did not accept these changes to their terms of service and requested that he cancel my contract in 30 days time.

I suggest everyone else who enjoys Broadband Britan:no:: should do the same

Leebobs :angry::

EDIT! - Why is BT introducing usage limits:

BT is introducing usage allowances on its Broadband products in order to offer a better and fairer deal to the majority of customers. The benefit of introducing usage limits is that it enables us to charge most users substantially less.

Usage allowances give you the ability to transfer up to 15Gb of data per month with the BT Broadband and BT Yahoo! Broadband 512kbps services or 30Gb of data per month with the BT Broadband 1Mb or BT Yahoo! Broadband 1MB services. The amount of data transferred is the total data received by the end user (downloaded) AND sent by the end user (uploaded) over their broadband service and is measured in Kilobytes (KB), Megabytes (Mb) or Gigabytes (GB). 1Mb = 1024KB; and 1GB = 1024Mb.

Check out the table below to give you an idea of what 15GB a month usage allowance may mean to you. All of these things - not just one of them - are possible within 15GB a month;

Surfing the Internet - 15 hours each day

Sending 250 JPEG pictures via e-mail every week

Receiving 250 JPEG pictures via e-mail every week

Downloading 250 music tracks every week

Downloading three hours of video clips every week

Listening to online radio for fifteen hours every week

Sending 3000 emails every week without (no attachments)

Receiving 3000 emails every week (no attachments)

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Yep im cancelling too, i am so angry at the moment with this :@ Luckily im going on holiday for a month so I'll be changing ISP while im away so i wont really miss the 7-14 days without ADSL...

Well at least its only coming in in 2005, im gonna leech like f*ck untill my acount is cancelled.

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This country's internet is a ****ing JOKE!

Over priced, capped up, low speed ****ing ****!

I'm beginning to get ****ed off with Telewest as I'm getting routing issues more often, AND the cable box downstairs for T.V is dying... AND some of the channels go down on a regular basis, or video / sound freezes and goes jerky.

BT is gonna introduce a limit, their prices are ****ing rediculous, Telewest is getting stupid and I have heard something bad about Bulldog from a friend (he used it, they ****** up).

****ing want to go to America, Optimum Online 10/1 internet with no limits. Now thats the kinda **** I'm talking about, yo!

Here in Mexico i can bet it's more expensive, ADSL 256/128 k is for 349 pesos (like 30 dlls, 18 pounds) thou i hear theres a new service that uses radio waves and has 2MBps at 399 pesos, thou i saw the website and im out of range, theres also cable but price/speed is on par with ADSL and since there's only 1 phone company, there's only 1 ADSL provider, however i live in a not very important city (400,000 inhabitants) and i bet in bigger cities there are far more options

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