So, my dear chums at BT have announced a price hike for later in the year.
How can they have the cheek?
My sub one Meg internet isn't fit for purpose, the phone line is crackly and often unusable and they make me pay a fortune per month for this supposed service and a line rental charge which is really high.
Most people can simply ring their nearest cable or fibre provider and move, or perhaps contact another ISP who supply a service on copper lines. Here, the choice is much more restricted.
No cable, no fibre and even many of the alternative ISPs such as Primus don't operate here.
So the choice is basically BT or their subsidiary PlusNet, or some other equally terrible and overpriced outfit such as Talk Talk.
I use my mobile phone when I need to download anything - at least that gets a decent 3G speed here, but it isn't really practical on a day to day basis, plus my provider won't allow me to tether it unless I pay extra and even then there is a really low limit of a couple of gigs per month which would be pretty useless as my main connection (imagine the data used by my daughter watching TV programmes online as we don't have a TV)
I will need to do some serious thinking about whether to ditch the broadband altogether. Expensive and poor quality service which I am not happy about.
