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[Weaver]

Agrees with everything that Reformed just said.

[GigabitEthernet]

[Chrysalis]

[jelv]

@GigabitEthernet

Care to answer these questions?

Do you have home and contents insurance? If so do you also think that's a waste of money, paying out extra for the security that gives in case something goes wrong?

[Reformed]

For the home owners who dont care about long contract commits and geeky aspects of service A&A I guess serves no purpose, but there is a market, else they wouldnt exist.

Time will tell how well FTTP works on AAISP, will they have the same issues Zen has or will the price premium yield a better service.

Thought you wrote under 'Hurray' on the other place.

It's pretty rare for a residential lease to be shorter than a year. Home ownership status not really an issue.

No place for those not of a geeky mindset indeed. Right now I'm not bothered about static v6 space especially let alone some random buying their WiFi.

Obviously a small market there. I'm not sure what these issues Zen apparently has with FTTP are? Neither my BT Wholesale or Plexus services have given cause for complaint?

[j0hn]

I think he's referring to all the "I'm not getting 900Mb/s 24/7" posts on TBB.
Zen seem to have more complaints than most other providers over there.

Although nobody is rushing out their way to post their positive experience so I'm not convinced Zen actually have a problem.

[Alex Atkin UK]

TBB is quite the echo chamber sadly, you still see posts saying they wont go with Zen because they had a single-threaded performance issue years ago.

Although I will admit I have a bias against Origin Broadband because their network underperformed and they went through so many infrastructure changes that never seemed to improve it much.  But then again, if they were dirt-cheap for a backup, I wouldn't completely discount them.

When you look at the positive Zen posts I think it says a lot that they are willing to move people from TTB backhaul to Openreach, if you have a performance issue in your area, despite it costing them more money.

[Chrysalis]

Thought you wrote under 'Hurray' on the other place.

It's pretty rare for a residential lease to be shorter than a year. Home ownership status not really an issue.

No place for those not of a geeky mindset indeed. Right now I'm not bothered about static v6 space especially let alone some random buying their WiFi.

Obviously a small market there. I'm not sure what these issues Zen apparently has with FTTP are? Neither my BT Wholesale or Plexus services have given cause for complaint?

A year isnt that bad, my point was AAISP dont seem to artifically extend their contract lengths longer than the wholesaler minimum.

On FTTP most contracts appear to be 2-3 years, I could only find one on BT retail that was 12 months which was better than other providers who had no 12 month FTTP contracts. (AAISP now also 12 months), Ofcom's response to my query on that one was they only require one package to be available at 12 months then the ISP is compliant.  They didnt respond that 4 ISP's I gave them had zero FTTP 12 month packages available.

[aesmith]