(My net connection service is sorted. I was even beginning to feel a mite guilty – maybe the fault really was my raggedy cat5 – further damaged by the building work.)<\/p>\n

An advert in the bus paper – the Metro – this morning compared the great cheap Virgin cable service – 10 MB broadband plus cable channels plus phone rental for \u00c2\u00a330- with the inferior Sky service.<\/p>\n

The advert showed Sky with an impressive 80 MB or something- can’t remember the detail, sorry, but Virgin claimed it was capped and is slower the further you are from the hub (isn’t that true of all DSL anyway?) and costlier, at \u00c2\u00a336 plus \u00c2\u00a311 BT line rental.<\/p>\n

Now, I was already a mite baffled, because surely it’s 10 Megabits not MB, which I am pretty sure usually means MegaBytes. Maybe it’s just how they put these things in ads, but as far as I can see, it’s exaggerating the speed by a factor of 8.<\/p>\n

But I get home and open a letter from Virgin. It announces a 1 May price increase to \u00c2\u00a337 (though doubling the bandwidth, I am pleased to see) and an increase in phone charges. (Well, an exciting <\/em>new way of calculating the phone charges, that sounds like a reduction – if you take some extra inclusive phone charge package – but slips in that they are rounding up to the nearest minute.)<\/p>\n

So the price they are advertising today as being \u00c2\u00a36 a month lower than Sky’s package is actually going to be \u00c2\u00a31 more in a month. (And still minus Sky One.) Hmmm.<\/p>\n

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