Almost made it to the end. Another three days of being locked down then freedom.
I caught a few interesting programmes on TV today. On the antiques road trip John Nolan from Southport did his thing when his shop was visited. I like to collect mugs, and there was one in his shop I liked. I came out with a small collection that Billy Bingham had apparently sold to John. He knows how to make you buy.
There was also an interesting programme on that covered some of my work area that I had never been to.
Looks like I will be changing my broadband provider again. I used to have Vodafone copper to the cabinet until they withdrew the option and then I switched to BT who still had a copper option. Now BT are removing their copper to the cabinet option. And before you ask, the reason I wanted a slow broadband was it was good enough and provided me with an alternative to FTTC for resilience.
Typical of all providers, my 2 year contract is ending so they want to increase my price. Normally my price would just jump at the end of the contract to the standard price. However there is no standard price for the service I have, so I am looking forward to some fun when the contract runs out.
Sadly there is only one company that offers copper to the cabinet here now – and Shell Energy is not on my goto list of internet providers. So unfortunately it looks like I will be forced to upgrade my connection to a faster one – and in that case BT are way too expensive.
It’s an interesting concept. The cost of keeping a copper only service running is not really an issue – there are plenty of copper only phone lines in the country. The admin cost is no different to any other system. So really there would be no cost to BT to keep the service running, and they would have kept my business if they had.
Okay, there is a bit of tongue in cheek complaining there. But it struck me – when today you cannot access many government services without a computer and the libraries are closing – a hike in price like this would really affect poor families.