I've had broadband connection with Telefonica for many years. They are more expensive but I can tell it works fine. I dont know about the investigation about anti-trust practices but I can tell Telefonica in a particular case plays at disadvantage because since they are the owners of the most part of the infrastructure (that's actually an advantage) the goverment is doing what they call "positive discrimination" by not allowing Telefonica to offer the same speeds to their costumers than the other providers. So, while providers like ya.com (with a growing good reputation) are offering ADSL2+ up to 20 mbps Telefonica is stuck in 1 or 2 mbps. At least so it was before I moved to the UK last year, where by the way I could check that the speed gap between this 2 countries are not that big.
I don't think it's that bad considering that Spain has recently started to have broadband providers. However, Spain is not the best example if you want to list countries ahead of United States (whatever the technological field is).
In connection with the cost, now providers are starting to drop prices and raise speed. Now you can buy up to 20 mbps for between 20 and 30 euros, depending on whether the offer includes NATIONAL calls or not. That's good improvement considering 6 years ago 256 kbps cost 40 euros or more and very few had it.
About reliability, I am one of the first "normal" Internet users in my area, since 8 years ago. I've had some reliability problems but nothing out of normal. I absolutely agree customer service stinks in most cases, but since I have only had to use it once in 8 years I think it's not a big deal.
Anyway, there is a long way to go before we can be compared with the top 10 countries.
Apart from Internet Broadband I hope you are enjoying your stay in Spain but I'm sure you miss your country so much (not only because of Internet). I did when I was abroad and I can't tell how confortable and good I feel now I'm back.
Totally agree!!
I think AJAX is becoming a fever and now people is trying to do anything with it. What the hell's next? Stand-alone-navigator-machines and the operating system running with AJAX? Come on!! Ajax aplications can be very useful, google mail is a good example (i love running gtalk while cheking gmail) But i think we are kinda... crossing the line.
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you better get up to date. that was more than a year ago.
I've had broadband connection with Telefonica for many years. They are more expensive but I can tell it works fine. I dont know about the investigation about anti-trust practices but I can tell Telefonica in a particular case plays at disadvantage because since they are the owners of the most part of the infrastructure (that's actually an advantage) the goverment is doing what they call "positive discrimination" by not allowing Telefonica to offer the same speeds to their costumers than the other providers. So, while providers like ya.com (with a growing good reputation) are offering ADSL2+ up to 20 mbps Telefonica is stuck in 1 or 2 mbps. At least so it was before I moved to the UK last year, where by the way I could check that the speed gap between this 2 countries are not that big.
I don't think it's that bad considering that Spain has recently started to have broadband providers. However, Spain is not the best example if you want to list countries ahead of United States (whatever the technological field is).
In connection with the cost, now providers are starting to drop prices and raise speed. Now you can buy up to 20 mbps for between 20 and 30 euros, depending on whether the offer includes NATIONAL calls or not. That's good improvement considering 6 years ago 256 kbps cost 40 euros or more and very few had it.
About reliability, I am one of the first "normal" Internet users in my area, since 8 years ago. I've had some reliability problems but nothing out of normal. I absolutely agree customer service stinks in most cases, but since I have only had to use it once in 8 years I think it's not a big deal.
Anyway, there is a long way to go before we can be compared with the top 10 countries.
Apart from Internet Broadband I hope you are enjoying your stay in Spain but I'm sure you miss your country so much (not only because of Internet). I did when I was abroad and I can't tell how confortable and good I feel now I'm back.
Totally agree!! I think AJAX is becoming a fever and now people is trying to do anything with it. What the hell's next? Stand-alone-navigator-machines and the operating system running with AJAX? Come on!! Ajax aplications can be very useful, google mail is a good example (i love running gtalk while cheking gmail) But i think we are kinda... crossing the line.