UK Internet access costs to come down?

[Richard Smith]

Mark Ovens wrote:
> 
> > Slight tangent...
> >
> > Did you see TW the other week, which featured BT's ADSL trials. I didn't
> > realise that video on demand was at quite such an advanced stage.
> >
> > What with digital TV effectively obsoleting your VHS (i.e. the VHS needs
> > it's own set top box to be useful, and more and more digital
> > transmissions are record inhibited anyway), I can see that within a
> > couple of years we'll be getting cheaper internet access anyway, through
> > the package deal that comes from the telco supplying: VoD, packet data
> > and voice services over a rusty piece of twisted pair.
> >
> 
> Err, copper doesn't rust ;-)

Every one's a critic :-)

 
> I didn't see TW, but I'm not holding my breath for getting ADSL
> anytime soon as I live out in the sticks, well not that far out, only
> ~1/2 mile from a main road between 2 towns, but they've both got (or
> the cable is being laid) cable but there's no sign of us getting it.
> We can't even get digital TV. :-(

Telecoms appears to be moving quite rapidly at the moment (for a
change). we can but hope that something better than 1p/min off-peak is
looming on the horizon.

Richard.