By David Meyer
Published: Monday 17 March 2008
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Name
Guy Reynolds
Location
Letchworth, UK
Occupation
IT manager
Comment
Basically ISP have been hoist by their on patard.
For years they have been over selling their products: 8M download speeds and unlimitited bandwidth, and under investing in infrastructure. They have got away with it because their customers have never had the services available to them that required this level of performance. Now that such services exist they are starting to feel the pinch and cry foul.
Unfortunately our contract laws in the UK seem to be weighted in favour of suppliers rather than customers, thus if what is predicted comes to pass many subcribers will find their ISP chaning contract terms in mid contract leaving them with something less than they orginally purchased.
Bandwidth isn't some limited resource that will dr...
Austin Holdsworth
Basically ISP have been hoist by their on patard.
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Guy Reynolds
We pay more than any other country and yet we get ...
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