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that sounds like an awesome investment, what are you subscribed too?

Ziggo in The Netherlands. Television, telephone, and internet all in one for 67 Euro per month. They have Internet-only subscriptions as well, but the whole package deal is more attractive ;).

Thats cheaper than my 10mbit connection + phone + basic cable in new york.

He must be from Northern Europe. Scandinavian countries have the best deals with internet connections.

As for the numbers, I think 12Mbs is quite an overestimation of reality: http://www.speedtests.net/world/europe/

In the UK the fastest one can go is with Virgin 50MB. Too bad then they force you to use their own cable modem which is a piece of shit.

According to this, Virgin offer 100MB :

http://www.broadband-tv-phone.com/virgin-media-cable-broadba...

100MB is also available in Ireland, through UPC:

http://www.upc.ie/broadband/hundred/ (monthly cost here is roughly double the UK price. Typical! Despite the recession, it's still rip-off republic.)

Virgin 100mb is coming to my area soon :D The schedule for roll-outs across the UK is available here: http://shop.virginmedia.com/content/dam/allyours/pdf/100Mb-r...

BT are also bringing 100mb broadband in, at which speed I'm sure you'll be able to hit their ridiculously stingy monthly caps in mere minutes.

big difference between MB and Mb but in any case I guess being in America I'm shafted when it comes to internet speeds.

Oops, should have proof-read that...

Here's something interesting - Hong Kong's got 1000Mbps, because the company is question is willing to swallow large losses for years to gain market share. Also mentioned is what it would require for the same to happen in the US -

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/business/06digi.html?_r=2&...

> In the UK the fastest one can go is with Virgin 50MB

. . . well, unless you move to Bradwell Abbey or Highams Park: then you should soon get FTTP at about 100Mbps. An Openreach guy was telling me this afternoon it should just be a few months.

We (Bournemotuth) were due to be getting Fibrecity, 100mb to the home but it looks like they switched on a few roads, dug up a whole lot more then tanked. There original big fanfare plan was to route the fibre through the sewer system rather than digging up the streets again...doesn't seem that panned out too well!

Reports (I blogged about it) had the first FTTP Plusnet customer connected in July 2010 at "between 67.2Mbps and 92.37Mbps".

If the service is as good as it is for Virgin 50Mb I really would not recommend it to anyone.

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