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I wish Google would do this in the UK and the government would subsidise them rather than pissing around with ministerial positions and quangos and wasting our
by eckyptang 14y ago
I wish Google would do this in the UK and the government would subsidise them rather than pissing around with ministerial positions and quangos and wasting our money on nothing of value.
I'm fed up of the monopoly that is OpenReach here (ex BT's infrastructure division). All you can expect in the UK is 14-20 days a year of downtime, pitiful bandwidth and quite possibly the worst customer service in the history of time.
Other providers' service is patchy and they aren't much better as they don't have much competition and therefore motivation to do better.
Another competitor would go down well for the consumers, especially one operating at such a price point and with a name like Google.
- ropiku 14y agoAdd that OpenReach can take 3 weeks to install a landline, they give you a 6h time slot and the engineer is usually late or missing and there's nothing you can do. Where I live OpenReach (ADSL2) is the only option.
- eckyptang 14y agoI experienced that too! The worst OpenReach experience I've had was when the line was working in a degraded fashion, the OpenReach engineer turned up and actually broke it entirely. The guy literally got up and made a break for it out of the door. I chased the bastard up the road to his van. It was like a cheesy Benny Hill sketch.
- njs12345 14y agoTrust me, the UK model works well compared to what the rest of the US gets..