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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Notingthat Retrovertigo now needs to sort out the subscription he has, I was reflecting on this university question.
When the kid gets home, it gets Daddy's nice 20/50 Mbps.
But when they're in their off-uni shared house, one of them will have an O2 mobile or something like that and set up a £7 8Mbps service or for a bit more dosh the 15 Mbps service.
I doubt that the proportion of VM uni subscribers is high.
Anybody else agree?
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I have to disagree I'm afraid. I live in Fallowfield and VM had a pretty big door to door leafleting campaign at the end of August which was specifically aimed at students. Plus, when you divide the cost of VM internet between a an average of 4 students per house, the cost becomes manageable for a student. No other ISP leafleted around here so the first thing students will see on their doormat will be a VM leaflet and they'll probably sign up because there's a number on the back and it's easy. If VM have indeed advertised their service around this area without bothering to increase the capacity then it shows either an atrocious lack of foresight or a reprehensible amount of greed. I suspect a mixture of the two.