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Lanny
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June 1st of this year was the launch date of BT's Midband. An 128k dial-up internet access service. Aimed at those who couldn't get Broadband and wanted to pay over the odds for an inferior service at £35 per month. Is there anyone out there who actually fell for this rip off? 
Experience is a virtue only time can bring so what on Earth happened to me?
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Spitoon
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Reg'd: Sun
Posts: 144
Loc: South Yorkshire
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No chance, i got rid of ISDN as soon as ADSL came out, no way i was going to continue paying BT good money for an inferior product. I've had to wait 3 years for ADSL and i hope to have it within 2 weeks after campaigning for broadband in our area. I believe Midband has a place, unfortunately i believe its over priced. If it was £15 a month then it would be worthwhile, afterall it's ancient technology thats probably paid for itself 50 times over, but BT are just trying to milk it some more.
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MedMan
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Reg'd: Tue
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I am moving to a remote country area with no chance of Broadband for the foreseeable future so I have looked into the question of Midband.
It is not really fair to say it costs £35/month as that includes your phone line. Given that most folks would want a phone line as well as Internet access the true cost is £25/month. However, that's still expensive for a 128kB link, especially when you consider that you only get 128kB when the 'intelligent' software decides you need it. The rest of the time you only get 64kB. Even more to the point, you only get 150 hours/month at 64kB or 75 hours at 64kB. Now that IS a rip off!
Midband is potentially useful for folks like me miles from anywhere. I would pay £35/month but only if BT address the following issues:
Access should be unlimited or, if not unlimited, at least 200 hours/month at 128kB
The system need to support an always-on email connection. Very little bandwidth would be needed for this.
The system needs to support 'inward bumping' as well as outward bumping. (If someone picks up a phone in the house to make a call whilst you are using a 128kB link the system bumps you down to 64kB to allow you to make the call. However, if someone try to call you whilst you are using a 128kB link they get the engaged call as there is no inward bumping.)
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Spitoon
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Reg'd: Sun
Posts: 144
Loc: South Yorkshire
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Thats the spec (excluding the hour limits) that BT announced months ago for Midband, unfortunately they haven't implemented them, they just renamed Home Highway, threw in some Limited Internet access and sent it forth to milk even more money from people.
Personally i would like to see BT give people who have no chance of Broadband anytime soon, affordable and unlimited 128k access and only to those people or those on enabled exchanges but way too far from it to get broadband
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Jonny555
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Posts: 5303
Loc: Cheshire, England
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Inanswer to the reciving of telephone calls the ISP would need to support V.92 modem technoligy to enable modem on hold feature as well as the modem you use.
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