Comments on: BT Infinity: BT cable broadband on sale today http://www.broadband-finder.co.uk/blog/2010/01/25/bt-infinity-bt-cable-broadband-on-sale-today/ Informed opinions on the state of play in the UK Broadband market Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:21:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: k2150 http://www.broadband-finder.co.uk/blog/2010/01/25/bt-infinity-bt-cable-broadband-on-sale-today/comment-page-1/#comment-2134 k2150 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:44:52 +0000 http://www.broadband-finder.co.uk/blog/?p=1514#comment-2134 The usual double talk from UK ISP's concerning what is "unlimited". BT Infinity Option 2 says "unlimited usage" but their FUP is the great get-out clause allowing them to cut your connection speed at will, they don't & will never define what they consider to be "heavy useage". As a subscriber you have no way of knowing what they mean by that. Also how do BT know that this will "only affect 1% of our users" when the FTTC service isn't available until April 2010 some 7 weeks away. The usual double talk from UK ISP’s concerning what is “unlimited”. BT Infinity Option 2 says “unlimited usage” but their FUP is the great get-out clause allowing them to cut your connection speed at will, they don’t & will never define what they consider to be “heavy useage”. As a subscriber you have no way of knowing what they mean by that. Also how do BT know that this will “only affect 1% of our users” when the FTTC service isn’t available until April 2010 some 7 weeks away.

]]> By: Mal http://www.broadband-finder.co.uk/blog/2010/01/25/bt-infinity-bt-cable-broadband-on-sale-today/comment-page-1/#comment-2116 Mal Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:56:17 +0000 http://www.broadband-finder.co.uk/blog/?p=1514#comment-2116 BT Infinity, BT’s next-gen cable broadband packages, are available to order now. As we revealed last week, there are two BT Innfinity packages, Option 1 and Option 2. BT Infinity Option 1 provides top download speeds of 40Mbps, comes with a 20GB usage cap and costs £19.99 a month plus a one-off activation fee of £50. Option 2 costs just £24.99 a month, provides the same 40Mbps maximum speed but comes with unlimited downloads. Both of these packages come with the BT Infinity Home Hub included - the cable version of BT’s popular wireless router. ‘Basic security’ comes with BT Infinity Option 1, which includes McAfee parental controls. Infinity Option 2 comes with McAfee’s NetProtect Plus security package which includes anti-virus and anti-spyware software was well as parental controls. The terms and conditions on BT’s Broadband Fair Usage Policy page were updated this morning, revealing that the BT Infinity Option 2 package is subject to the same conditions as BT’s ADSL-based Option 3 offering: BT Infinity sounds ok. But yet again with the option they have to reduce speed raises a question. Of how honest are the quoted speeds. Also monthly limits are limiting. BT Infinity, BT’s next-gen cable broadband packages, are available to order now. As we revealed last week, there are two BT Innfinity packages, Option 1 and Option 2.

BT Infinity Option 1 provides top download speeds of 40Mbps, comes with a 20GB usage cap and costs £19.99 a month plus a one-off activation fee of £50.

Option 2 costs just £24.99 a month, provides the same 40Mbps maximum speed but comes with unlimited downloads.

Both of these packages come with the BT Infinity Home Hub included – the cable version of BT’s popular wireless router. ‘Basic security’ comes with BT Infinity Option 1, which includes McAfee parental controls. Infinity Option 2 comes with McAfee’s NetProtect Plus security package which includes anti-virus and anti-spyware software was well as parental controls.

The terms and conditions on BT’s Broadband Fair Usage Policy page were updated this morning, revealing that the BT Infinity Option 2 package is subject to the same conditions as BT’s ADSL-based Option 3 offering:

BT Infinity sounds ok.

But yet again with the option they have to reduce speed raises a question.

Of how honest are the quoted speeds.

Also monthly limits are limiting.

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