FWIW I used to be a Community Fibre customer (I left them because I moved somewhere outside of their network) and their service was great. It was cheaper than the competition, and worked. Customer support was great too.
Their only con is that they're not available in more places (they run their own infrastructure), but I guess you can't expand at the speed of light.
UK fibre scene has been pretty good to me. You give us money we give you 1gbps symetric with no serious gotchas. (Hyperoptic).
And I suspect communityfibre will be more of the same generally honest proposition (or better). Plus they're promising last mile fibre and 3gbps. So I have high hopes for these guys.
I can't help but notice the disconnect between that commercial proposition and this article's tone. I've been primarily been receiving 3gbps ads from these guys. Not quite on the same mental wavelength as connect the poor so rather surprised to see this...let alone on hn
edit: One area where community fibre will need to up their game is static IP. Hyper has static ipv4 at ~6USD and you get a ipv6 block by default. When you consider that the 1gbps is symetric that static ip starts looking pretty good
This surprised me, but it really shouldn't have, given the figures look similar for other essentials (food, energy, school supplies…). The cutting back of the welfare state has had a horrifying impact on the number of people in the UK living in poverty.
> Thee in ten (29%) will have no choice but to cut back on data to save money
What is the marginal cost of 1 MB of cellular data?
If the government outlawed usurious data caps/excess fees/throttling, I think that would go a long way to helping more people stay online.
They don’t specify what the headline means and I can’t see a link to the survey questions or data. Feels like an ad rather than true research.
Severe conflation of mobile data allowance and wired broadband. This looks meaningless.
Is there a term from economics where a portion of the population do less and less because they can't afford to travel, properly eat or heat their homes? And who have no chance of educating themselves due to their circumstances?
People talk about the UK productivity gap and I wonder when society realises that people who can't afford to eat are not going make great workers.