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With line rental 2 months cost me nearly as much as Roon annually!

Partly for the premiership rugby tho!

Richard,

I certainly did not mean to suggest a cavalier attitude about money. And you are right, the cable comparison is probably beside the point, funny as it is.

But I stand by my observation about relative value. It is about the music, and when I got my Sooloos gear I rediscovered value in the music collection I had built up over 40 years. I considered it a bargain, even at a cost of thousands. Now Roon, the evolution of Sooloos, helped me rediscover my collection within a larger universe of information, and because of its metadata focused integration with Roon Tidal opens up the walls of that integration in a way that Sooloos+Rhapsody never did. And at a cost less than the sales tax of Sooloos.

In the last few weeks, my backlog of music to investigate has grown more than it did in the previous ten years.

I pay £5/m for (up to 40Mbs) fttc connetion on top of the mandatory phone (~£16/m) line rental+w/e calls which I would have to pay irrespective of having any data connection.

The deal is £5/m for first 12 months of 18m contract, then £20/m but I also negotiated a credit to my account to cover part of the additional extra cost for 6m which taking that into consideration would bring final 6m at ~£12/m.

The other option that I had was free copper broadband (~4.5Mbs) on a 12m contract.

At end of 17m, I simply renegotiate.

The deal I had with same company on previous 12m was copper broadband £10/m and free line rental+w/e calls.

I think they want me to subscribe to their TV services which I think I would have got me a better deal, but I'm happy not to be tied to one provider so can shop around for best deal and walk away if I don't get a deal I am happy with. But similar deals elsewhere, but you seem to do slightly better deal with retentions.

Some might argue that phone line rental should be added to the data cost, but phone line would be a cost irrespective of any data option that I took and I have no alternative not to pay if I want reliable communication with outside world. Roll on 4G at my closest mast then, demand permitting, I would have up to 55Mbs unlimited data at my disposal for £15/m just like I do a few miles up the road in outside lane of M3.