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Apparently, the world doesn’t have enough cloud storage, but never fear, British Telecom is on hand to sort that out. They’re rolling out cloud storage to their loyal customers, in sizes ranging from laughably-puny to almost-worth-it.
The storage comes packaged as part of ‘BT Cloud’, and is in 2GB and 50GB flavours, depending on what internet package you’re on. BT have felt the need to patronisingly explain this storage in terms of songs, (500 or 12500) because MP3 files are such a better unit of size than gigabytes. Of note, there are also iOS and Android apps for the service, so at least you’ll be able to get at ALL 500 of your songs on the move.
BT have also implied that they’re not going to tolerate pirated stuff being stored in your cloud locker, stating that it ”doesn’t support activities which infringe the copyrights of the holder”. Frankly, though, you’re not likely to care, because there’s pretty much no reason to choose this over DropBox or SugarSync or SkyDrive or iCloud or Google Drive or anything else. I mean, I guess it’s a nice enough move on BT’s part, but the 2GB plan is so titchy as to be completely pointless. [TechRadar]
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Pointless to us, It might be handy for old people though.
COmpanies like BT tend to get into things with the intent of bringing them to the less tech savvy masses.
Define Us and Old People
In this case, Old is a state of mind. Us is me and anyone who chooses to associate themselves with the point.
I tip my hat to you, a superbly crafted answer, would you care to take a job with BT customer service? Ironically to this article, I had the misfortune to have to speak with them this morning, trying to get a problem sorted with my mum’s connection, and when it became clear I won’t be going on any more Club 18/30 holidays, he went into patronise overdrive. A few years ago, I would have tore strips off him, but hey, he was young and inexperienced and he’ll learn given time.
I’m also a little way outside being allowed on those holidays and if you think BTs external help desks are bad you should try speaking to their internal ones. I’m well aware that there are plenty of 80-100 year olds who are great with computers and much younger people who are not, I was simply trying to point out that BTs residential services are seldom rolled out for minority power users but more often for a the much broader less savvy group (who tend to the older end of the spectrum).
One more thing for “customer service” to insist that we would be better off with it and for it not to work as it should.
Just read the T&C’s, “This service will be stopped and your back-up files deleted if you don’t use it for 90 days”.
Wow, how very helpful… for online backup…
A back up service from a company that probably won’t go into insolvency in the near future? I’ll take more of those…
BT have left it a bit late to roll this out, haven’t they?
A happy user of both Dropbox and SugarSync for some time now, I see absolutely no reason to switch to BT Cloud or even use it in addition.
I also read somewhere you have to log on with a PIN each time you use it.
BT Cloud has far less going for it than Digital Vault. What sort of company forces people to switch to an inferior product. I can’t even find a way of creating folders or listing files without icons. Time for me to find another ISP.