If virgin media really wanted my money or the money of all my neighbors who currently cannot get proper broadband because we live to far from the telephone exchange, then they would invest around such high populate spots like where I live in slough.

Slough hosts the biggest trading estate in Europe & offers more highly payed jobs that any other cities in the UK, Yet just on the outskirts of this silicon valley people in areas like me cannot even get broadband, others just manage to get 256kb or 512kb connection.

But what is really frustrating, VM web site asks for a postcode and then it reports that this area is not a digital area, fine, but then tells you that you can get 20mb connection via a bt line… how on earth did they figure that one out based on a postcode search, when O2 who’s head office is just over the small hill less then a mile away cannot even offer any kind of ADSL?

Some of you may say, why don’t you use mobile broadband, well mobile broadband is design for extremely light usage due to the limits in the bandwidth technology. Such technology is currently design to be limited to usages of about 1gb to 3gb. The only reason some sales person may say that the average usage is such and such is because the technology cannot offer much more to viable, anyone going about such usage will be stung big time, while users closer to telephone exchanges or in VM areas with better connection can enjoy BB for what is for, things like bbc iplayer/youtube/online gaming and many other sites that mobile technology is not designed for.

I actually think that the government should create a law to render null any long term contracts where BB speeds are found to be un-acceptable for what ever reason, and any company holding on to licenses to prevent others from providing such services in an area should lose such license after a period of un-actitivy, this is what has happen around this area, at one point there was someone providing wireless broadband and then someone brought them and the service just disappeared. Patents and licenses only exist to prevent other businesses from offering needed services, not for those who have them to offer what customers need.