Comments on: BTC Planned Pricing: $139 For 25MB

By: Will

Will — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:52:57 +0000

lol BT in uk offer 100mb, free calls and unlimited usage for 35£ a month…

By: media

media — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:36:44 +0000

With BTC I don’t have that problem where I live. I pay for 8MB and get between 6 – 7 at all times. To achieve that I admit I did need to put some pressure on BTC and I have to say they did step up and came up with a workable solution. I suggest anyone who is not satisfied with their speed to contact BTC and take it right to the top if necessary. I use Transact as my ISP. I can’t speak for the other ISPs. CV from various reports have apparently improved their speeds during peak hours over the last few month. Not perfect but an improvement. Having tested both BTC and CV for a month together last year for me BTC won easily in terms of consistency of speed.

By: The Price Is Right (Not)

The Price Is Right (Not) — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:20:32 +0000

They also need to stop trimming the band width during peak times because they can’t handle the traffic.

By: F****IN CRAZY!

F****IN CRAZY! — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:56:07 +0000

BTC CEO Eric Dobson said that “by end of the first quarter of 2013,40% of the island’s homes will have access to download speeds of 25 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 4Mbps

Not with those damn prices. Must be crazy. What exactly are we paying more for?

By: Yada Yada Yada

Yada Yada Yada — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:59:49 +0000

I agree..one price for both..

By: Yada Yada Yada

Yada Yada Yada — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:58:20 +0000

That’s still to much you have to add on what the ISP is gonna charge also..

By: WhistleBlower

WhistleBlower — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:29:40 +0000

Exactly it is time WE the CONSUMERS demand FAIR TRDAE!!!!

By: media

media — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:25:52 +0000

A more likely scenario is BTC having a much closer relationship with CV of which Keytech, BTC’s parent company owns around 30%. It would give BTC an already updated backbone to get into residential households and then only have to lay the fiber from the CV fiber nodes that are already scattered though out the island. It baffles me why they have up until now not attempted to work together. Now they might be forced to do it for survival. That’s if Link Bermuda really comes though with their proposal, which at this point is just blowing smoke to get the Government to actually push through with the reforms.

By: plato

plato — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:06:26 +0000

Btc is no longer subject to the 60/40 rule … So when can we see verizon, a t and t,sprint and bt swoop in and knock btc into theit senses?

By: Still Waiting

Still Waiting — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:01:25 +0000

We are still being raped as long as you have BTC and Cablevision providing highers speeds at one cost and the ISPs charging higher fees for access. Bring on bundling. Like written earlier, you wouldn’t know the different unless you are down/uploading huge files.

By: US Observer in Pink Sand

US Observer in Pink Sand — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:03:51 +0000

@media – now this is the truth. You can’t spin in anymore and think that people will believe what is being sold. For many years and even still Bermudians believed that they only had one or two options when it came to literally anything…well, times are changing and competition is a good thing for all.

By: swing voter

swing voter — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:02:51 +0000

sounds like you’ve done your homework. The legacy service providers must be pooping their pants, as we’re tired of being ripped off by them and the backlash is comming. If and when we see bundled packages, I hope the price would be similar to the EastLink canadian model. fingers XXXXXX

By: M3ke

M3ke — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:48:15 +0000

I’m a computer enthusiast and I will never pay that much for 25Mb. We still have to add on the ISP cost??? BTC you need to go back to the drawing board and try again. The total cost of 25Mb internet including the ISP should be that price. You wont get my $$$.

By: media

media — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:15:59 +0000

I have a hard time believing that in 6 months 40% of the island will have access to 25MB internet service. When I mentioned the 10MB speed, which is the so called current maximum, to the BTC techs they just laughed. Nobody can actually achieve that speed. The problem BTC and CV create for themselves is a failure to meet expectations. Why call it up to 10MB when the reality is 8MB or less? The customer always feels let down, especially at the price we pay.

Obviously the BTC Press Release was sent out knowing that Link Bermuda was about to make their big plans known. It’s interesting that 6 years ago Cable & Wireless, now Link Bermuda, made a bid for BTC of around $50 mil and BTC rejected it as too low. I bet they are kicking themselves now. Link Bermuda must feel they have no need for the BTC’s infrastrucure and can just do it all themselves. If it actually happens it will be a game changer and I see the other local companies struggling to compete. Check out what Link Bermuda’s Canadian counterpart East Link is doing in Canada right now. They are offering TV, Internet and Phone as a bundle over fiber. In other words they have the experience of doing it themselves already. Interesting times ahead. Finally the industry will be allowed to move ahead without the outdated restrictions put in place back when the internet was invented! Dept of Telecommunication under the PLP should be ashamed of themselves for not responding to the needs of the Public and the Industry in a timely manner. There is no excuse.

By: George

George — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:07:11 +0000

To all those waiting with bated breath to have Bermuda go ‘supersonic’ with our bandwidth speeds – you need to ask yourself one question is this a cheap marketing ploy to get you to spend disproportinatley more or are you genuinely going to be able to tell the difference between say 7MB and 25MB as far as what you do on the interenet on a daily basis??

If you’re not going to be downloading/uploading gigs of data on a daily basis then you’re not going to reaslie the difference!

What I do agree with is the need for the regulators to ensure that customers are receiving what they are paying for as far as quality of service – Cablevision/BTC are both guilty of neglect when it comes to this!

By: swing voter

swing voter — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:47:55 +0000

BTC is pathetic….old money company reaping huge profits and declared massive dividends year over year whilst treating their customers like trash. Now they come up with this token upgrade of their 3rd world network? You guys should just hand over the company to an organization that wants to run a tech savy business.

By: Just One

Just One — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:45:36 +0000

Perhaps Keytech (ie. BTC/Logic, etc) will have their integrated license by then and ensure that they can deliver 25Mbps internet as well as 25Mbps connection speeds. Perhaps…

By: Joonya

Joonya — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:28:04 +0000

they are probably waitng for these blanks to get their sh*t together

By: so-n-so

so-n-so — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:46:40 +0000

this is all fine and dandy, but are the ISPs going to be offering speeds up to 25mb?