Broadband hits the UK

[Guardian]

www.btopenworld.com

What do people think, it is certainly cheaper than I thought it would be. But the consumer version uses a USB "modem"...

Thoughts anyone

[Taz]

Sounds good, the only downside is that you are forced into using BT as your ISP!

I assume BT will offer reseller programs to the other major ISP's who aren't so restricted in the services they can offer.

[The PIT]

To expensive thats all I can say.

[RoGuE]

It all sounds very impressive, but as The PIT says, £40-a-month is too expensive.

Also the coverage in the UK is poor, 70% by the end of 2001 sucks.

[This message has been edited by RoGuE (edited 27 April 2000).]

[Guardian]

the USB Modem for the consumer version is probably a cost saving option by bt, but they also have seperated the consumer and business versions by how many computers you can hook up. Is there any way they can stop the comsumer version being shared accross a network?

[Pace]

They stated on their site that you can share a single PC connection (£40) across a network so the multi-PC option (£100) must be able to be connected to from multiple PC's directly - possibly with 512kbps each and extra POP mail accounts.

Paul.