{"id":24,"date":"2010-04-08T13:24:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T13:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.villocq.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2010-04-08T13:24:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T13:24:22","slug":"sure-reveals-new-broadband-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Sure reveals new broadband plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With less than a month to go until the 4 Mbps upgrade for Guernsey broadband customers, Sure has posted new pricing plans on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surecw.com\/guernsey\/page-1273\" target=\"_blank\">their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The current Anytime plan stays at \u00a324.99 pm and has been rebranded &#8220;Sure Broadband&#8221;, with the speed being bumped up to 4 Mbps. However, to my disappointment, the upload speed remains fixed at 256 kbps. I was hoping for a bump to at least 512 kbps so that my home Slingbox will work better abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Sure have scrapped the two tier Pro Broadband plans in favour of one plan, now called &#8220;Broadband Pro&#8221;. It offers the same 8 Mbps download and 768 kbps upload, but with a price of \u00a349.99. This, in my opinion, is still massively overpriced, \u00a0but it is a reduction nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>So, overall, slightly disappointing. I was rather hoping that the Pro broadband would be set at or under a \u00a340 price point, but it is still too pricey for home users having to pay out nearly \u00a3600 a year for what many in the UK would consider expensive for the speed you are getting.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the pricing gets cheaper if\/when sure introduce ADSL2+ services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With less than a month to go until the 4 Mbps upgrade for Guernsey broadband customers, Sure has posted new pricing plans on their website. The current Anytime plan stays at \u00a324.99 pm and has been rebranded &#8220;Sure Broadband&#8221;, with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/?p=24\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,11,12],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cable-and-wireless","tag-guernsey","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}