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One million cancel broadband as living costs rise
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#12A lot of people, including my parents, are doing fine with just their smartphone's 4G/5G plans with unlimited data. Even watching hours of Netflix on TV doesn't lead to any throttling.
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#13> One million cancel broadband as living costs rise
> Citizens Advice said its survey of 6,000 people suggested
big difference between the title and a survey of 6000 charity customers.
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#14I dont think people comprehend how deep the economic issues of britain are.
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#15I dont think people comprehend how deep the economic issues of britain are.
Can you elaborate? I would like to comprehend.
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#16If you only ever use your phone then there's no point in paying for broadband. I think a lot of people have been taking a look at their subscriptions and cancelling things which they seldom use. Do you really need a sub for a 500mbit connection when you use you phone? You can always cancel it and switch to a much cheaper slower connection or just use you allowance.
I had a Disney+ sub which I hardly used so I cancelled it along with several others I kept out of sheer inertia.
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#17It should be noted that these figures are based on an online survey. So the affected people have access to the internet, most likely via their phones.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to mention that a lot of connections are still DSL (misrepresented as "fibre" which is apparently perfectly legal) so in practice a cellular connection may very well be an upgrade.
True. But quality metrics differ and no wireless connection that i have seen is an upgrade in terms of jitter and reliability overall a wired one (even dsl)
And it won't exactly get better when your whole block starts canceling wired..
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#19I dont think people comprehend how deep the economic issues of britain are.
The uncompetitiveness of Britain has been obvious for decades. For a highly developed English-speaking country it is very underrepresented in software tech.
Britain should unironically learn to code.
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#20I dont think people comprehend how deep the economic issues of britain are.
They're not that bad at all. There's a lot of fud. The whole world is struggling at the moment, you won't find a single country that isn't affected by high interest rates or inflation or some other crisis or issue. We're real doomers in the UK so everything is the end of the world.