If BTs exchanges are the point of contention why not just subscribe to the cheapest link?
The issue of contention is slightly more complicated than that. Each ISP needs to be connected to BT’s Exchanges, including BT’s broadband offerings. This is done by paying for leased circuits between the ISP’s Data Centre and those exchanges. It follows that if insufficient capacity is purchased for the number of subscribers registered, then each users connection will be slowed down to the maximum throughput the ISP has. We are aware of several well known ISPs who have oversold their bandwidth in order to offer a ‘cheap’ service, resulting in download speeds as low as 16kbps. In effect their subscribers may have saved £2 per month or less and yet get speeds of little more than a quarter of the speed of a standard 56k modem. KeConnect Subscribers have experienced download speeds on our standard 20:1 contention of as much as 630kbps. In our opinion the choice is clear.
