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mobily
09-01-2006, 22:13
£14.99 for first 3 months then £17.99 thereafter.

Speed: 512kb
Rooked
10-01-2006, 13:48
£34.99 10 meg

and 17.99 2 meg unlimited at the girlfriends
deadite66
10-01-2006, 15:40
hehe someone who's paying a lower price might not want to reply here for fear of being found out.
mobily
10-01-2006, 22:14
hehe someone who's paying a lower price might not want to reply here for fear of being found out.

That is what I am interested in. I contacted Customer Services who told me Plymouth will not be upgraded until April! How ridiculous is that!!?? This means some people are paying the same as me and will have benefited from six months of more than triple the speed!

I don't think they have thought through their upgrade plan very thoroughly.
etccarmageddon
10-01-2006, 23:36
I'm paying £9.99 a month for 1meg and have been for the last 6 months and will be for the next 6 months.
jaspo25
11-01-2006, 16:32
Cheeky gets have been charging me £35 all along was on origional 2MB elite service and am still only getting 2MB service won't even upgrade me to 4MB say they can't do it till Doncaster area upgraded. Still waiting for that as well. :confused:
peterq2
11-01-2006, 17:27
£35 for 4Mb :( but fingers crossed i will be upgraded to the 10Mb by the end of the month.
danielf
11-01-2006, 17:35
£25 for 4MB. I was upgraded from 1MB today...

Thank you Blueyonder :D
v0id
11-01-2006, 23:52
Cheeky gets have been charging me £35 all along was on origional 2MB elite service and am still only getting 2MB service won't even upgrade me to 4MB say they can't do it till Doncaster area upgraded. Still waiting for that as well. :confused:

so you missed the upgrade option that was in Selfcare through November then?


I'm paying £35 for 4Mb, soon (I use the term soon loosely) to be 10Mb
ginzeh
12-01-2006, 03:50
£35 for 10meg..

did pay £50! for 4meg before though...

They kept charging me £50 until i kicked up a fuss though
peterq2
12-01-2006, 14:35
Got upgraded this morning to 10Mb so £35 for 10Mb :)
senzer
13-01-2006, 03:24
35 for 10mb.. bad price if you ask me.
Paul
13-01-2006, 05:14
35 for 10mb.. bad price if you ask me.Why is that exactly ?
peterq2
13-01-2006, 06:57
This could be the reason https://www.bethere.co.uk/ Be is the first UK Broadband Internet service provider (ISP) to deliver the awesome power of up to 24 meg broadband. With download speeds up to a staggering 24 meg and upload speeds up to a record-breaking 1.3 meg all for £24 a month.
Clan
13-01-2006, 11:37
2002 £25 for 250 Kb :)
2003 £25 for 512 kb
2004 £25 for 1mb
2005 £25 for 4Mb
"006 downgraded to 2MB for £17.99

Clan
Ignition
13-01-2006, 13:09
This could be the reason https://www.bethere.co.uk/ Be is the first UK Broadband Internet service provider (ISP) to deliver the awesome power of up to 24 meg broadband. With download speeds up to a staggering 24 meg and upload speeds up to a record-breaking 1.3 meg all for £24 a month.

That's actually a bit dodgy. You will never ever see 24Mbit download even if you connect a modem directly into Be's kit as it's just not possible, you will never upload at 1.3.

Hope they don't advertise that elsewhere apart from their own website!

The real killer there is that they are talking about it like it is the kind of performance you might actually see. You won't even on an absolutely flawless line that's 1 inch long.
Chris
13-01-2006, 13:56
That's actually a bit dodgy. You will never ever see 24Mbit download even if you connect a modem directly into Be's kit as it's just not possible, you will never upload at 1.3.

Hope they don't advertise that elsewhere apart from their own website!

The real killer there is that they are talking about it like it is the kind of performance you might actually see. You won't even on an absolutely flawless line that's 1 inch long.
From their site:

Our first connected customer averaged a record-breaking speed of 18.5 meg.
https://www.bethere.co.uk/companyinfo.do;jsessionid=414D52BF964EC4410A567065 8D8A9ED5.tomcat2

Anyway, I didn't think there was anything dodgy about an ISP using the catch-all get-out-words 'up to'. ;)

EDIT

On that page though, look at the photomontage at the top, and then tell me how many different people you can see across all the photos. I suspect this ISP is not a big operation. Customer services could be interesting once they have more than a few dozen subs. :erm:

EDIT AGAIN

Ah, here's another page:

https://www.bethere.co.uk/team.do

Looks like there's eight of them. And seeing as that page proves they can't write web pages that render properly in FF, I resolve never to give them my business. Cowboys.
toom
14-01-2006, 22:11
2002 £25 for 250 Kb :)
2003 £25 for 512 kb
2004 £25 for 1mb
2005 £25 for 4Mb
"006 downgraded to 2MB for £17.99

Clan
skin flint lol
Ignition
14-01-2006, 23:49
From their site:


https://www.bethere.co.uk/companyinfo.do;jsessionid=414D52BF964EC4410A567065 8D8A9ED5.tomcat2

Anyway, I didn't think there was anything dodgy about an ISP using the catch-all get-out-words 'up to'. ;)

EDIT

On that page though, look at the photomontage at the top, and then tell me how many different people you can see across all the photos. I suspect this ISP is not a big operation. Customer services could be interesting once they have more than a few dozen subs. :erm:

EDIT AGAIN

Ah, here's another page:

https://www.bethere.co.uk/team.do

Looks like there's eight of them. And seeing as that page proves they can't write web pages that render properly in FF, I resolve never to give them my business. Cowboys.

Be's management team are top notch dude :p:

BTW yes there's nothing dodgy about saying 'up to' I just think it's dodgy when it's impossible to reach the 'up to' :p: