Unlimited Broadband Petition

Uswitch dropped us an email to encourage people to sign the petition for unlimited broadband to be as it says on the tin - unlimited...

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Unlimited-ADSL/

For those of you with unlimited broadband packages, did you know that most of them come with an invisible limit - often reffered to as the Fair Usage Policy, this means that if they think you use too much of your unlimited broadband they have the right to restrict it (either by speed or in some cases by switching it off). More and more we appreciate the Internet for media and use of our computers for watching high quality (better than DVD) movies, streaming radio stations and more you could quickly download a sizable chunk.

Thats why I support this, I am all for limiting peoples downloads - but you need to tell them, allow them to buy more or less according to each individuals needs (40gb is what we get through Sky at the moment, I don't think I need more at yet, but if I do ...)

Sorry, two posts so far and they have both been about broadband - I will try and make sure my next post is more financial, or at least interesting and off the broadband subject!

Sky Vs Virgin Media - broadband ... Or should it be Virgin Vs BT?

Ignoring the battle over the channels (major fan of a couple of the shows on it) all I really want is the Internet, but the packages looked better value than just internet packages. My wife needs to phone Mexico (VOIP) and I need to be able to do a little work at home.

So I compared the costs (and even wrote a free broadband comparison table for the site) simply to work out what I wanted and as it turned out, Sky seemed to be the best one for me... Well, that was over a month ago and whilst the maths hasn't changed the lack of broadband for me has changed my opinion somewhat.

I can't really blame Sky, but the 16mb I wanted wouldn't be available as I am too far from the exchange, though 8mb will be great, and after BT came around to 're-fit' the telephone line (not an immaculate job in a newish house) it turned out that a problem at the exchange meant that I wouldn't have broadband for a further month...

Had I known, the maths for Virgin would have looked better. I spoke at length to Sky who (without actually saying it) implied that fighting with BT seemed to be a daily job for the Easynet team who actually manage Sky Broadband.

Despite all this, I think a break from the Internet is probably doing me good ... and I can still MSN on my mobile (through Three)