One million people in the UK cut off their internet | Liam Halligan reports
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If skilled workers are losing jobs why do we need so many unskilled migrants?
Keeping everyone poor is the plan. Lower your wages, lose your jobs, raise your living costs and crank up inflation to shred any savings you may have had to wait out the catastrophe. Is it adding up yet?
@@mrgreensuit7379 Absolutely. Well said.
Because when we all refuse to do what the government tell us they use the migrant workforce who will police us and fill the rolls AI won’t
Time to stop voting in the same party,LAB / CONS
Unskilled Migrants WILL actually move their arses and PICK FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. Skilled workers WILL NOT. WHO WILL do the work, fruit and other crops are rotting because young unemployed people won't dein to for it.
Lived in a house, no phone, no internet, no television, no "smart phone", it was wonderful, peace at last.
When was that?
Until they do away with cash and use digital money.
Do you have room for another 😂 wonderful no social media destroying people’s lives
@@fredshred5194 i doubt that happening this century, doubt he has to worry living that long
It will be mostly gone in 10 years.
It does not help when banks are getting away with forcing people onto online banking!
If they want business they'll have to stick to retaining a physical presence on the high street. Or people will lose trust.
I pay my regular bills online but I use cash for everything else.
Seeing the problems that Chinese citizens are having withdrawing their money from their own bank accounts right now, ( restricted from 125 dollars a day to 750 dollars a day, depending on the bank in question), the concept of a digital currency is terrifying.
There is an interesting vid on YT ( inside China channel) where the guy being interviewed says the bank services are fantastic if you want to pay money into your account but if you want to withdraw it, it’s almost impossible.
Ditching my bank for precisely that reason.
@@gillps5130 but where do you go? I have a Building Society account - but they will end up going to the wall.
When did the British public ever vote for 5g???
@burner don't want internet at all?? And the internet was just fine before 5g????
Since when did this become democratic? My supermarket now sells two types of smashed avocado. I don’t remember voting for that! Do you realise how ridiculous you sound? I was in London the other day, and my phone automatically switched to 5G in one part of a large building, where it had been on 4G thirty feet away. It’s harmless.
@@toiletrollholder better than being an ignoramus!
When was the last time you saw people in a poling station?
@@kayoss11 I vote postally, so I only see them on the news, which seems mostly to comprise people taking their dogs to vote.
Hopefully they cancelled their TV license first.
Are you British?
@@andrewoliver8930 No, English.
@@ShallowDepression Use English spelling. Noun.
@@andrewoliver8930 I like that I offended you. English through and through.
>English through and through.
>license
Something doesn't add up here!
What a better world we had before mobile phones!
Mobile phones were nice when they were build for calls, texts and snake game
It is when Steve Jobs turned them into mini tv and blocked you from uninstalling youtube and facebook amd chrome.
I would love to have Galaxy Note phone just for taking and organising my notes, with no distraction at all.
I cannot personalized it without it affecting my warranty.
They turned mobile phones into very intrusive salesman.
Disagree I’ve learned a lot about who the real criminals in this world via my mobile phone if they weren’t around when the vaccine was rolled out I may have been tricked into believing it was good for my health. Which after much research I found that it actually wasn’t therefore I turned it down . Thanks to have access to an alternative view 24 hours a day.
Agree.
It's coming soon we are going back to the natural world,no poisonous drugs medications chemicals plastics or fertilisers,it's back to growing your own healthy food & supporting our ethical farmers & corner shops.
Exactly totally agree with you there annettajensen6751 👏 I'd love to go back to that world
The 'digital divide' has less to do with affordability and more to do with people realising they do not want to be in a 'digital prison' with CBDC's and Digital ID's as the ultimate control. Funny this wasn't mentioned😂
No one is forcing you into CBDCs and Digital IDs. Just refuse to take part. It is entirely your choice.
Amen. People are getting topped out with all this "smart" crap. We are losing our grip on socializing, getting out in nature, riding bikes, swimming, and "doing" things rather than staying glued to a screen. I am guilty of sitting at my computer too much every day, but not socializing so much as learning "stuff." But we are just getting fatter sitting on the couch looking at technology.
Exactly what I thought, people waking up at last
@@MrCw64 Kind of like how they didn't force covid vaccines? Oh yeah, it's the "we aren't forcing you, you'll just have stop working here" if you don't submit to their socialist tyranny where they pretend they don't have a gun to your head but are in reality threatening your entire way of life if you don't submit to their strongarm tactics.
This is actually the 666 gradually coming into the world. Watch out.
We should be paid to have the internet, since all these businesses, Banks, tax office etc etc have gone on line only.
Absolutely Clive Lockwood, the government wants us connected for their own purposes so they should provide internet, computers and mobile phones for free.
yeah its so weird.... now we are supposed to pay internet... to have access to services? lmao
I want to go back to the 80s when things were much more simple
And "racism" was both a thing of the past and a thing of the future, but not of the present.
Fact
Don't worry, since Brexit the MP's main aim was to bring manufacturing back to the UK...oh no they were too busy trying to overturn what the public voted for while filling their own pockets at the same time
You see it.
Anyone who believed that bull didn't no what they were talking about. You were lied to.
And the media is hankering on blaming troubles on Brexit including COVID on Brexit.Determined to overturn it a Brexit that hasn't even been completed yet.That remoaner lot want to be dictated and ruled by foreign unelected Appointees and will not Honor the vote.
@@DD-fc1rv the main bull here is the remoaner mps doing they're best to not allow Brexit undermining it at every point.
@AdsRuinedRUclips that would be the sunny uplands would it, lol.
People are waking up to the nonsense , that's why they're coming off the internet nothing to do with affording it . That's a positive in my opinion 👌
No to CBDCs... I like it.
Cash over digital trash. 👍
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If you have been following all that is happening over the years, you'll understand that it's all by design. Always interesting that commentators are surprised "it is not in the media". It is not supposed to be.
It’s mind boggling.
Once you see it it’s obvious.
Think long term, consider where policy leads to next, follow the steps, see the pattern.
Most who use internet aren't smart or come across as intelligent. Intelligence and common sense in England has dipped
I've been saying this for years Eva. Until people come from the angle that it is deliberate - only then does anything that is happening around the world make sense.
I genuinely don't understand what the "plan" is, can you explain?
We are just the pawns in the game. To quote a good book title
We should set up a parallel country for all those who want to live a simple life without the internet and the rest of the bs, life like how it used to be.
Do you still shit outside in this simple life you lead ?
Wonderful thought 🌺💐
My thoughts exactly. 👍
Can I live there please??!!.
Sign me up! I’ve been telling family and friends for years, I win lotto I’m buying an island to do just that, and most of them said they will be following.
AI is the biggest mistake humanity has made so far and humans are great at making stupid decisions.
Only people in charge make stupid decisions . Ordinary people don't have a say in making decisions . If we did things would be different .
We are certainly not ready for this. Same with electric cars and going green etc.
It's not a mistake. It's by design. The idea is using machines to k. us and claim they "became sentient", while in reality it was the plan the khazars had all along.
@@_Uh_Oh_ we'll never be ready. It's a trap.
i'm frustrated by this because i want to talk to human beings, not a machine, soon the only person i will be able to talk to is my bf, that is a freighting prospect
I live on my own, so use the mobile phone Hot Spot. I have done this for the past 4-5 years.
I don’t see the need for me to pay the extra for broadband when it is only me using it. I must have saved £1200 by now. I also don’t have a TV LICENCE, now it’s been 7 years without the BBC/broadcast TV. I haven’t missed it at all.
Depends on where you live and what kind of job you do. My mobile has super bad signal at home and I require fast and heavy use internet for my work.
One can comfortably live without TV too. Life without the anxiety and fear from the media. Bliss if you are an avid reader too.
23 years without using TV here in Norway but now you are FORCED to pay the TV licence even if you do not own a TV or Radio...
We should not be forced to be online
You're not.
go live in cave then
I have been hounded by my energy company to install a smart meter. As if my life depends on it. I'll carry on giving them the accurate reading that I see and send without the need for them to control anything.
smart metwers are made so a lazy fat git can sit i his car at the end of your street eat donuts and read your meter by remote control without walking to your house, it is also used to cut off your supply if you dont pay your bills on time, dont do it, I wrote to Eon and told them to cease a decist sending me letters about smart meters as I am not interested, I havent heard anymore from them at all.
I am on pre-payment meters
I have a smart meter and I still get emails (just received today) asking me to give the meter readings! The reason - doesn’t work all the time!
Never ever get a so called 'Smart Meter' ! By doing so, you're effectively giving the utility provider and the Government the ultimate control over your life - at the push of a button, they can cut you off, if you so much as think the 'wrong' (ie independant), thing
In Italy you cannot access online accounts (such a your pension) without a smart phone and your digital ID. They will still pay your pension into your bank but you're no longer in control.
Liam's comment around "older people don't want to connect to the internet, sadly, as this is becoming the only way to pay your bills" stuck in my craw. It SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. The definition of being a slave is in not having a choice!!
The issue is - you need services provided by someone else. If you dont want to pay on their terms you have to provide the service yourself or go without.
@@yt.damian A bit different in Italy though as they already had an ID card and they shifted it to digital this year. In the UK this has always been rejected. My stepfather still pays his utilities quarterly, in cash or cheque at the bank. I know people who place bags over the cameras at checkouts, as they haven't given permission to be filmed, and who will walk out of a shop if they won't take cash. Eventually the people will wake up when they understand what is going on and the companies, driven by profits, will either have to change or lose business. More positive systems are being built, which is good, and there are no overnight solutions here, just an awareness of the direction of the slow creep.
@@NothingByHalves Great comment .
@@NothingByHalves I’m one of those people! And I talk about very loudly when it happens. Except that I refuse to use a self service check out.
I do have an online Bank Account for regular bills unfortunately, but I take out cash for EVERYTHING else.
@@spanchicbest4690 water elec and countax all paid cash or che
Bottom line is access to the Internet is far too expensive for many. If you take a logical look we are paying in order to allow BIG CORPORATIONS access to our household in order to cut THEIR costs, or advertise then sell us products, maybe they need to share the cost! Just a thought.
Brilliant thinking!
Cheap as chips - no one can complain at that.
I think Liam is the only person surprised that we're not hearing about this in the mainstream media.
It was on the BBC website!
@@b.critical7873 f------ the bbc
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Some people get payed for being dumb, it's all a con to make people feel better about being in a digital prison.
Stone age, bronze age, Iron Age, Industrial Revolution, Internet, Woke Age ,5G ,..............Stone age.
Stoned Age?
And with each iteration, a new pyramid rises...
You forgot the plastic age
I purposely got rid of my broadband a few years ago and stopped watching the propaganda box. .. life is a lot better now.
If this is true, how are you reading and replying to this?
@@Joanna-il2ur maybe phone data.
@@zephyrr108 Let’s hope so, unless (whisper it under our breath) our colleague is telling a lie. Honestly, it reminds me of the bloke who does our garden. He won’t get a mobile phone because he doesn’t want the Government to track him. I say, Nigel, you are a jobbing gardener in a small Suffolk village. Why do you think the Government would *want* to track you? Advanced mowing techniques? Weedol statistics? Some people just have a weird sense of their own importance.
That's the life Joe.
No more being "programmed" by the MEDIA.
It’s also a way of saying we ain’t going digital.
Exactly can't have digital money when you don't have a smartphone or any internet because then it's rendered totally useless;)
@@jennifermarlow. yep that's exactly why I don't live in a city...because all that stuff costs money they lack the infrastructure in the countryside that's why they want everyone in cities because they can't control countryside people that's also why most special forces members grew up in the nature not the city.
The Great Reset, you'll own nothing. - Klaus Schwab (Federal Reserve/World Bank)
Someday we'll all own nothing ,so will the evils because we will die.The evils want it to bring it on sooner than later.
GESARA/NESARA.
God has other plans. There's going to be a great reset alright, one back to God: /watch?v=j635Cv2aOlA
and this is why we start boycotting these companies if they start using AI?
Question: Will you boycott BT now that's they've just singed a government contract to spy on all BT mobile phones? Oh and O2 customers too.
Calm down with the boycotts no one does it and it wouldn’t work anyway
Yeah. You do that Darren. Always wanting to cancel. Get a life
@@mwmds Really? I've boycotted using Mobile phones... Microsoft, Apple and Google operating systems, software and services ( RUclips not withstanding ). I've cancelled my BT internet and gone with a smaller provider...... it works for me and that's good enough for me.
@@notjustforhackers4252 you sure showed them
That's what happens when you have a government that cares more about Zelensky than the British public.
Same for the U.S.
The puppet zelenski...will get his comeuppence
Actually UK`s prime minister is a WEF minion (or young global leader as wef calls it), he works for WEF and "the great reset" and WEF "you will own nothing and be happy" agenda. All the countries that have WEF minions as PM goes downhill fast...
As a qualified BMS HVAC Controls engineer with 30 years experience and a city and guilds in electrical engineering, I'm soon not going to be allowed on site as the requirements for a CSCS card is an NVQ, city and guilds will not transfer over, there's apparently thousands of engineers who will soon no longer be able to work another brilliant idea by the idiots in government.
yep there are so many like you that did not jump on the CSCS band wagon for grandfather rights back it was first introduced and city and guilds was recognised now you gotta sit an nvq painful i know, and so many installers were like i don't need that but i told them you will one day get it done now and like you they haven't an can't get on site.
Bloody ridiculous
Nvq not very qualified
You can do an LDL apparently. Hubby was going to do the city and guilds (just moved from Canada) to get his F Gas and they told him to do the LDL, although he just went for an interview and they think his Canadian one will carry over now we are out of the EU
In the not too distant future you will only get access to the internet if your SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE allows
Never going to happen. The internet is decentralised it's impossible to restrict access.
Sunak was such a great Chancellor, he borrowed and spent hundreds of billions and everyone thought it was free money.........
Only those dozy twonks in Whitehall and Westminster thought that.
@@g8ymw Wefminster
You missed his amazing ability to increase the tax take.
Quite Colin. And nobody seems to have noticed
Everyone was asking me where all this money was coming from during Covid - my answer was simple, *THE FUTURE*
I'm not surprised by this, everything is becoming more expensive, they are trying to get cars off the road, soon they will be coming for your house! I do wonder just how far this will go and where it will end.
Can you feasibly gather enough mud and sticks to build your hut?
Either in the pod and eating ze boogz, or more likely fertilizer for the elites crops all grown by robots while they enjoy the new depopulated earth
It will end at you will own nothing and be happy.
it ends with them putting in " needy people " into declared empty bedrooms in your house, and your back garden being taken over to build communal housing !
your world famous tolerance is the reason you are 3rd world country today!!!
AI will be like Call Centres, dreadful service which does not work.
Internet should be a free, informative, safe enhancing tool of modern society acting as a public service - not a crime-riddled, data-robbing monster it`s grown into.
It will be soon.The QFS and Starlink.
@@carlstewart8787 As much as I would like to believe that Starlink and the Quantum Financial System will be the ground breaking positive way forward the world needs - it continues to be difficult to have any faith with the majority of the mindset who will be controlling these.
It absolutely shouldn't be free if the government is paying for it they will have more control of it and what is allowed to be distributed
@@gazrgazr2394 Tax payers - they pay for everything else one way or another !!! - A lot of infrastructure is already in place. Take money from the weapons budget or any budget that has no improvement on the world. Advertising. There `s enough money and means out there.
At the very least - it shouldn`t be for profit, hence why I said Public Service.
What would you suggest ?
@@BEEFBRSKT It`s all controlled anyway - even the Government. You`re on RUclips and that`s censored all over the place. We are supposed to be a modern society looking to go forward in a positive way - you need a better argument.
If enough people Refused the internet .....we would return to what was....if only
The entire country should switch of permanently any thing that makes these scum bags rich should be boycotted
Why?
Be the change you want to see in the world. Lead the way.
I cancelled my contract after they sent a letter saying they will increase the prices. Whilst a couple of percent each year is grumble worthy, I can put up with it. But they wanted a 23% hike so out of principle I cancelled.
Don't let them take the piss out of us - that company won't be getting my custom again when they pull stunts like that.
Artificial Intelligence isn't going to repair a fibre cable that some careless worker accidentally cut through. I used to work for BT, decades ago we had systems put in place to control engineers movements and we ended up with the ludicrous spectacle of engineers waving as they drove past each other after being sent into each others old areas to do some work. We're settling into a period where there'll soon be nobody left who knows how to fix anything.
Yea defeating AI might be as simple as pulling a plug from the wall.
You mistakenly assume that fixing things will be thought of as desirable.
The current paradigm is finished.
The Parasite Class means harm to you, your family, your friends and your country. Once you understand that- all the apparent stupidity makes sense.
97% of our desk based roles have already gone to India. They are complete crap at the job. Costing a fortune in compensation payments to customers.
Like everything they modernise they claim it will be so reliable and maintenance free, in my experience this rarely is the case. Engineers will go through natural wastage and not be replaced, when they realise they are still needed, it will be too late as the skill set no longer exists 😔
Fair comment. The Virgin Media coax has been in my street since the 90s and was getting me nearly 300Mb/s. Phone wires I'd be lucky to get 2Mb/s. I'm on overhead FTTP now and 1Gb/s symmetrical for £30 / month.
Why do we want all these immigrants when we have thousands of our own people coming available.
Yes. They will be delighted to pick fruits and vegetables...
Because people arent having kids.
@@mechminded2207 Can you blame them the way this country thinks of them less than the divers populace is growing with their cultures, not ours. Most likely it's the old indigenous people who have decided to call it a day and decided not to bring children into a country now becoming less than theirs.
For voter fraud that is my opinion. So the oppressors can have all power to control.Through division hate and racism. A true hell hole.
@@toiletrollholder hope there's never another Boris - one was bad enough !
When the Post Office first changed their telephone exchanges from analogue to digital they no longer needed thousands of operators who were promptly made redundant. Around 30% of the workforce were sacked at the time or took voluntary redundancy. The new digital system basically removed any physical distinction between "local" and "national" calls yet BT to this day still continues to charge for calls on the old basis. This time AI will be saving them billions more but we will be paying ever higher charges for a worse service.
If you are on full fibre with no copper connection, then adding a calling plan means all calls are covered within the limit regardless of local or distance. It also allows effectively 2 lines with one WiFi handset plus another phone plugged into the hub.
@@MervynPartin If you are on full fibre then there's no need for a landline at all. Just use free net based call systems? The "land line telephone" is a dinosaur and completely unnecessary nowadays.
If they have already gone from analogue to digital then what is happening in December 2025. The government website says its switching of analogue
I would suggest to do something and reduce the population worldwide,,,,
@@hardworker645 thats already been put in place hasnt it
I live up north on a housing estate. A lot of people in my area are cancelling their WiFi Internet provider and even their phone subscription in favour of a just pay as you go sim card. They can no longer afford it. This means a lot of streaming services like Amazon and Netflix have been cancelled also.
A total saving of around £50 per week.
£50 a week much needed to put food on the table.
This problem is escalating more and more as the cost of living goes up.
The UK really is going down the toilet . Now Brexit has failed there is no hope
If everyone done this, then these company's may start fighting back with the government until they abolish Al! And digital everything! No one wants it but the billionaire's club who can then control us fully.... By the time 2030 is here...
@Cord Fortina yes I agree, but if you had read it all, I wasn't just talking about broadband provider, I was including all other subscriptions, using Netflix, Amazon, etc. Examples of cuts are necessary to put food on the table.
My sister has cancelled all her subscriptions and saves roughly £50 pw. You can, in fact, get internet for as little as £12 if you're on ESA. It's all the other crap that mounts up and takes the pennies.
@@B08Y That's 3rd World stuff right there
@A Conneely
YUP! spot on. Britain is slowly becoming a third world
5#!T hole.
London IS, now a third world 5#!T hole.🧕👳♂️🥷 🌍💩🕳
Hoping this doesn't push people to the ever-increasing dependency to mobile phones. Putting all of ones eggs in one basket creates the perfect single point of failure.
Just like everyone being forced towards electricity as the sole source of energy.
@redacted629 I had to have the new BT cabling, old copper was not working. Now everything goes through internet and if say you had a power cut, which we often do( out in the sticks) you are unable to use the landline as you could before. All about control and when they turn off Billy Big Button we are screwed!!
@@dungareesareforfools electricity is not a source of energy. Tjen again dont let science come in way of cooking up a good conspiracy theory...
Which part of the UK often has power cuts?
@@supertuscans9512 North Northumberland and the mobile signal is poor.
Bit ironic Citizen Advice has undertaken this survey considering a huge amount of its offices have closed down and the service has gone online.
Ikr, when you need to talk to anyone, it's use our online chat or use our FAQ with the "was this useful?" At the end of it, just to fob you off
Cab is now partly government fund and no longer independent since covid
They need everyone on the internet for the role out of the digital slavery. I have a sneeky feeling they will issue smart phones to all on universal credit soon "to help them"
Lot's of people in many industries who are scared for their jobs right now. "The Great Replacement" is coming fast. I'm an electrician and the job is nothing like it was when I finished my apprenticeship 20 years ago. Mainly for the worse unfortunately.
I wish we would just all unplug in unison. Go back to people assisting people, stop letting tech push us out of the game. Like someone else pointed out, big tech companies pay out less and less in salaries but continue to charge us more and more! WE literally and willingly fund corruption
Strange the government provide immigrants with mobile phone packages that include internet subscriptions.
Paid for by the tax payer.
My sincere condolences to humans across the globe 😢
I am considering going offline. Too many data collections, tracking me. I do not want it. What MSM is overlooking is that 2G & 3G being switched off, making non smart phones useless. Again I will go without a phone.
texts rely on 3g so thats not going anywhere, the NHS needs to text people.
2G and 3G won't be switched off so long as it is profitable. All 5G technology can be stopped/take down easily /watch?v=Y7-p63o3zfQ
Don't worry the Ukraine will need plenty of rebuilding when they finally lose or run out of EU money, should by fun to see them digging around the toxic waste land the UK played a leading role in creating. Here in France basic internet is around 25 Euros pm.
Not as toxic as it would be if it were polluted with Orcs😂😂😂.
It seems however the deceased ones make good fertiliser.
The Americans have already signed all the contracts to rebuild Ukraine. That's why they'll keep popping money into the conflict. Remember, most of the military aid actually stays in America, building new guns and missles.
@@davidgavin7280 Larry Fink. It'll be another Greece, billions spent and still nothing of benefit for the badly paid citizens.
I got bt internet for 29 GBP
@@supertuscans9512 I think better check to see who is actually winning this war, and its not the Neo Nazi "orcs" but give it a few months and we will see who is worm food. I look forward to your future posts denying reality.
Not to worry but keep sending those billions now millions to UKr …??
Not a scent is going to Europe from the stinky feet. It's invested into our children's indoctrination, media and the control of this internet pause.
Russian troll. Ukraine needs more money
where do I send my lottery Winnigs is it direct to uk reign government or into zelenzky offshorebaccount i.have millions i want to contribute and give some thing back to society .thank you
Thankfully it IS still just about possible to pay for most household bills with cash either at a local bank branch (yes, some do still exist) or at a post office. Although we both have mobile phones they are only ever switched on if we wish to make a call when outside the house where we have two land lines. Anything that requires an app to use simply gets passed by, if a company doesn't want our money we go elsewhere or do without.
For everyone else, don't worry, when the net zero morons get their way we will ALL be living in a stone age society once more.
@@83c91 I am so gratified to have yet more proof of the naivette of people marching in lockstep into a future of total subservience to whatever ruling cadre the state oversees while gradually attaining total control of your life by way of the "conveniences" such as a cashless society that will track every insignificant moment of your life.
As to my trying to achieve anything? I care less about your future than I do about whether it will be warm or cool tomorrow.
And they want us all to go cashless?
We are not being given an option, its happening.
Yes NEW WORLD ORDER
I'm sat in a local cafe atm using their free Internet while having a cuppa.
I turned off my home Internet yesterday as I refuse to pay sky £87 per month for theirs.
I financed a motorcycle for £90 per month, I could literally buy another bike for what I was paying sky each month.
It's got way out of hand, in a world too where petrol companies make 8 BILLION PROFIT in 3 months for a fuel shortage that isn't there .....
Internet should not cost anywhere near £87/month. I pay a third of that for a decent line and that is not the bargain deal either.
Move to a better provider.
God that's dere I pay 15 quid?
£87 per month to Sky must include a big TV package. My broadband with them is about £28 which includes the redundant landline. I know we need the landline for broadband but why is it an added charge? Anyone know?
@@22448824 Redundant because you use a cellphone for all calls?
Yes you need a landline for broadband, if you never use it, or even dont install a phone choose a base minimum package with zero calls.
Most Internet providers will do a phone package for non phone users which rents the line and that's that. There will be some cost though.
When my father died the first thing we cancelled was Sky TV. Just wean yourself off it, it can be very expensive, my father paid more than you but he had a lot of channels and as he was bed bound in his final years it made sense to do this.
I have no TV licence (father didn't need one because even the BBC will not charge a licence fee to the bed bound), and no Sky.
You can replace nearly all of that with RUclips and Netflix.
If I were you keep your internet and make savings elsewhere. But you do you, and if you want to keep Sky, so be it. We all have expensive hobbies, I will not be a hypocrite and condemn yours.
When these tech companies go pretty much full AI their profits are going to be staggering, and if anyone thinks these companies will pass on the saving to paying customers, think again.
What will the 1.3 million annual immigrants do for work?
Leach the country dry. These are Locusts coming to feast, not ants planning to build.
Sod All
seemed like 30 million cut off their internet march 2020 and i think it happened at a similar time to their metaphysical lobotomy March 2020
'Digital exclusion', I'd call it Digital Freedom.
What will happen is, once the system becomes older,it will require repairs and upgrades and there won't be staff to do this, so they will employ sub contractors at twice the price and pass this on to the consumer
Yes lets put ai in control of the internet what could possibly go wrong did no one watch the terminator/ex machina.
I'm deaf and always hated paying a load of money for a landlines and Internet which was under 10meg. I'll bet there's all sorts of reasons for dumping broadband.
And as for these social tariffs they aren't even worth the £10
As a family we always switch the Wifi off at night. No need for it on as we're alseep and you're saving electric
Same. There's plenty of health evidence out there on the harm it can do to the body.
It's not that draining, and you find that the life of the router drops with off and on all the time. You can just turn the WiFi emmiting off through the router, as its just a port with WiFi signal connectivity.
Isn't this government doing a wonderful job 😂😢
We all know Who's not struggling?
Would be the last thing to go in my house....i don't see many people and it is my connection with the outside world....
Sadly
For many seniors too
It is for me, but I don't have broadband, just data on my phone.
Me too
The outside world sucks.
The most important thing is, that the illegal dinghy divers are getting all these servies for free, paid for by the very people that cannot pay for these servces for themselves or their families!
Gove has refused thousands of scientists worldwide to check the safety of these masts on human health.
Why no checks?
despite job cuts and AI, the tories still insist on importing more and more cheap labour from overseas, rather than pass the jobs onto the natives...
Anyone in the industry knows that fibre optic drop-wires only last between a third and a half the time of copper drop wires. BT seem to think you install fibre dropwires and they last forever. The first gen installs in Cornwall are now being replaced after less than 10 years service. Copper can last 25 years. The fibre network will cost more to maintain not less as BT are cheaping out on the installation by using pole mounted drop wires instead of putting it underground as you should with fibre. Also the fibre rollout is no where near finished and has been beset with problems and delays as multiple different contractors do different parts of the work. Jansen is living in cloud cookoo land and the City think he will be gone by next year anyway so he's making wild promises no one expects him to keep. I'd like to see Ai climb a telephone pole or pull a cable through ducting. Total nonsense.
It is impossible to generate tye speed with copper that you can with fibre optic.
Copper would be like going back to the Stone Age.
I've been a customer of BT for last 4decades plus and I finally decided to ditch them because when they cock up your service they're customer service is beyond woeful.....their managers do not want to speak with you when their juniors get things wrong and cock things up even more.
The senior management at BT are so detached from the frontline experiences of customers.they are dismal and I will be glad to get rid of them.
The managers currently manage teams of around 50. When the team sizes were 25 the higher management were told that it was too many.....BT field managers were working 60 hours a week THEN. Suicides became common, heart attacks and absences and resignations for stress were rife.
Higher management were and are only ever interested in shareholder profit and their statistics looking good. The "culture" was totally toxic and aggressive and I doubt it has improved.
Sky is very good if you want to speak to a human and they all seem to have English as a first language which helps when communicating over the phone.
Same with virgin , unfortunately where I live there is no other real option. Phoning there customer service is like swimming through treacle because you can’t understand a word the foreigners say and have to repeat it so many times . I now ask for someone who speaks English and eventually get sent back to a uk call centre.
I ditched my home phone. Never used it. I phoned them up and they were fine, and didn’t feign surprise. Even gave me a refund of £20.
People have had enough of the squeeze by everything being artificially price increased and they will start with things that they can live without. I hear the panic button being pressed by the government...how will we control these people with our propaganda if they ain't reading it online.
Ask yourself: who is pushing for this digital life we are all meant to just fit into! Keep going in this direction and you will have no life left......not that you have much now!
Yet peoples shopping trolleys are over flowing when you go into Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys. And that ain't cheap, especially when it's full of food that doesn't satisfy you and you end up craving more and more and buying more and more. Never ending cycle. More and more people are looking for package holidays, villas in Greece etc. Something is not right.
Its cheaper to have a holiday abroad then having a holiday in the uk have a look
Green eyed monster I 😮detect here.😢
When the presenter with her sizeable income and very smart , smart phone isn't grasping some can't actually afford smartphones in the first place yet the whole system believes everyone has one .
What's going on at the moment is against so many human rights and it's incredible how easy it's been shoved under our noses, and as for facial recognition, hardly a whisper was sounded in the Common's or the Lord's Chambers. Thanks MP's for holding the multinationals to account, where would we be without your in depth scrutiny. Dah!
Article 8 in the ECHR for a start where you need a warrant. This illegal corporation in our parliament has broken so many laws i've lost count.
My bt internet cost me £68 a month it just keeps going up and up my son is home schooled due to he’s special educational needs and has to use the internet to do he’s lessons so we don’t have a choice and we personally get no help with my home working tax credit universal credit we both have to work to pay everything and it’s crippling
Can you switch to mobile internet or do you have reception problems?
Thats dere I pay 15 quid.😮
When 100GB sim only deals are so cheap, I’m not surprised people are cancelling their broadband.
Unlimited everything on my phone £20 a month.
And it's faster than the rubbish speeds through the landlines
Thank you for bringing this information to us. I personally was unaware of these figures. it is topics likes these that a lot of people need and want to see.
A slight criticism: Please stop covering the royal family so much, especially Harry and Megan.
I remember when they brought out lightbulbs and all the candle makers were made redundant.
How old are you 150?
@@zocco15az There can be only one.......
More and more essential services are moved on line.
It is unfair to charge us for something we have to use in order to just live our normal lives.
Do you pay your gas, electric and water bills, council tax, travel costs. No you just said sound bite to sound cool.
@@mabit you won't be able to pay any of those without Internet access in the coming years.
Always bbc indoctrinated muppet with a chip on your shoulder.
You can access all government services for free from your local library.
The other thing impacting adsl internet connection is that a lot of people can manage just with their mobile devices for internet, where the market place is very competitive and people can get 150gig for 30 quid a month, which is enough for their needs and thus they don’t need fixed line.
650,000 people died and 420,000 moved abroad
Hey presto. One million cancellations.
Yes the House of Lords will look closely at the problem and after much deliberation and with a triumphant harumph shall declare they have agreed to do nothing!
Every household should be eligible for a free 2mbps connection. You can do internet banking and basic job searches, emails. But it's not enough to watch Netflix and other high use internet. So people cannot rely on it for anything more than the bare essentials. Often moving places the internet is a mess, so it solves that problem as well. You could even block Social Media websites such as RUclips, Facebook, TikTok. However there as easy work arounds, so best idea is just having a internet connection which is not fast enough for any streaming.
Or just dont have internet if you can't afford it. Duh. Most of human history has been without the web. Its not a necessity.
Will hardly be any people left to use broadband by the time Bill G and co finish. Next pandemic, avian flu
Spot on , and the world health organization [WHO] will be in total charge , as most governments have signed to give them the power to dictate to what they consider to be a pandemic and roll out mandatory vaccines . Scary stuff .
I do agree! Why should customers pay a extra fee if utility bills are not paid online? This is outright discrimination.
Internet fraudulent and alot of people will be getting off.
According to David Attenborough depopulation is on the table let's openly talk about it who's gonna get depop
Funnily enough the half dead lizard doesn't volunteer himself or his family to lead the way...
@@davidgavin7280 crazy how people think that it won't affect them Depopulation has already begun and they don't understand
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Joined telewest in 95, it has now morphed into Virgin, I’ve always had the lowest plan, recently had to get a better deal cause I don’t do online stuff and my bill was £73 cause I pay at a pay at a paypoint with cash. So it’s been rising up and I finally called them and and get the price down so now I’m only paying £56 and NO increases has I have just renewed. So phew. It wasn’t easy it was very traumatic and about 6 calls for which they billed me for 3 they had to reimburse me, has calls to them are free.i soon complained and got it back. But I will not be paying anymore when it’s up I’m done I want PEACE!!
56 quid is still too high. You should be able to get an unlimited plan for around 30 quid or if you’re lucky 20.
Hello Fascism my old friend, where we start shall be the end. La la la, la la la...
BT won’t be the only firm to do this. Sooner or later there won’t be enough people with an income to actually buy the products the firms are making. Shooting themselves in the foot …. and reloading for another go.
I Agree robots don't buy cars or shop at supermarkets.
They should make it more affordable.
Spot on greedy b/b providers
We have it pretty cheap in UK
Unlimited fast broadband for 30 quid a month or less is almost like free, it’s so cheap.
Why? It’s much cheaper here than in America. Shop around.
There's absolutely no reason why anyone should have to pay for the Internet when you get charged ontop of that to subscribe for additional services.. its ridiculous!
Reducing expense liabilities after unemployment is sensible.
I think we need a deeper understanding of the figures. Whilst i don't dispute 1 million households have given up broadband i suspect many are simply using their mobile data connection. So many mobile plans offer huge amounts of data for prices that beat traditional broadband. Download speeds are also as good. In some rural places that are still on copper lines the speed is useless and easily beaten by using a mobile SIM in a router with decent antenna (4g router).
Being off-grid is quite lovely.
If you are "off-grid", why are you still on-line. Being off-grid means not being connected at all! No mains electricity, no municipal water or sewage, and no internet connection!
@@stevenpyne1994 I didn't say I was.
@@JG-kq5el So what are you saying.
@@starofdavid9919 please refer to my first comment.
Internet access is no longer a luxury it is a neccessity. Maybe the government should subsidise a basic service to all households in the U.K. If people want higher speeds or more bandwidth they would then pay for an upgraded service. Just an idea.
No it really isn't a necessity. Humans existed just fine before the internet. Besides internet access is available completely free in the local library and many other places.
The price of freedom from the Internet is more money in your pocket
Does making everything digital, (on line), more economical for businesses and other organisations?
But doesn't it make it more expensive for the people, in loss of jobs and having to provide themselves with the "smart equipment" in order to do the transactions on line.
Using my phone to hotspot is exactly what I do. I have a phone deal with more than enough data for my monthly needs so I cancelled my broadband a few months ago. Wouldn't work for everyone. I'm lucky I live in a strong 4G/5G area and my household only uses 1 or 2 devices at a time for streaming Netflix, RUclips etc. No regrets.
I only use my mobile Internet, i get 10gb a month for £10, plus 5000mins and unlimited texts
Try living in Kingston upon Hull!! The most expensive internet in the country!! £60 a month is an averahe bill here. There is a large part of this city living without broadband. I for one have used my phone for the past year.. prices should be standardised and monopolies broken down.
My Internet has gone poor since they chopped all our trees down and put up 5g poles and wires all over the place. Still lots of infrastructure to do before they can lock us up in our 15 min city.
Make sure you don't go eating their graphene infused burgers.
The masts omit dangerous levels which soon kill the trees. They remove them so people don't notice.