Landlines..? A complete waste of money and unnecessary now?
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The thing is though, you are paying only £2 a month less than someone with a phone line and up to 76mb unlimited broadband. So having no phone line rental fee isn't much of a bonus, if any, in your case.
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£30/mth
+ £17.99 /mth line rental
12 month contract
Now I'm sure you can get a half price 'deal' of some sort, but come on.
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People rely more and more on mobile devices but they are no where near as reliable as a land line to your house.
Wifi hotspots are not as good as being made out to be, more users = less bandwidth, same with distance, to the wifi hotspot, further out the higher the latency and the less bandwidth you will get.
You also have the issue of the elements and disruption due to objects, then you have higher bandwidths which are faster but dont go far v slower but have a greater range. Now introduce weather and it starts going to pot.
It doesnt mean its a bad system, it is the way forward for mobile connectivity but you cannot rely on it as your only means of communication, its best to have both, especially in rural area's or if you want broadband to the home.
What needs to change are the packages offered to customers, its a slower process for fixed line to move forward than it is for wifi/mobile but the technology normally lasts much longer on fixed.
Wifi hotspots are not as good as being made out to be, more users = less bandwidth, same with distance, to the wifi hotspot, further out the higher the latency and the less bandwidth you will get.
You also have the issue of the elements and disruption due to objects, then you have higher bandwidths which are faster but dont go far v slower but have a greater range. Now introduce weather and it starts going to pot.
It doesnt mean its a bad system, it is the way forward for mobile connectivity but you cannot rely on it as your only means of communication, its best to have both, especially in rural area's or if you want broadband to the home.
What needs to change are the packages offered to customers, its a slower process for fixed line to move forward than it is for wifi/mobile but the technology normally lasts much longer on fixed.
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Basically, you, as a consuming customer, are a yoyo or a ping pong to your service providers, if you consider the situation on blanket level.
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Depends where you are. Here in Wales they are deploying it end of 2015/2016 to properties that couldn't get FTTC. Here they are dumping FTTP as G. Fast is less expensive and you get greater speeds.
They have made trials with G.Fast in Swansea and they achieved a combined speeds of 1Gig.
When I say combined it's both Download/Upload
They have made trials with G.Fast in Swansea and they achieved a combined speeds of 1Gig.
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I live in a town and still have no FTTC, but of course openreach have to go the profit msking areas first to survive as a company
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